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Cortana-like Personalization Comes to Microsoft Bing

Currently, only developers can tinker with Cortana, Microsoft's voice-enabled digital assistant technology for Windows Phone 8.1. But the general public can get a sampling...

Senate Bill Aims to Replace Federal Agency With Google Search

A little-known federal agency, the National Technical Information Service, works quietly behind the scenes, collecting scientific, technical and engineering information and selling reports on...

Yahoo Breathing Easier on Modest Earnings, Revenue Gains

Next quarter, Marissa Meyer will complete her second full year as CEO of Yahoo. When her job performance is reviewed by the board of...

Google Patches Apps, Services in Response to Heartbleed Flaw

Google has patched some of its key user services in response to the Heartbleed security vulnerability, including updates to Search, Gmail, YouTube, Wallet, Google...

Mobile Apps Bringing the End of the World Wide Web as We Know It

The Web celebrated its 25th anniversary on March 11. That’s too young to die, but there’s reason to worry about its survival.The open Web...

Daily Tech Briefing: April 9, 2014

Microsoft recently introduced its answer to Apple's Siri and Google Now in the form of voice assistant technology called Cortana, which is powered by...

Microsoft’s Cortana Presages Bing’s Future

One of the highlights at Build developer conference last week was Cortana, Microsoft's Bing-powered answer to Apple's Siri and Google Now for Windows Phone...

Bing Voice-Enabled Web Search Hits the Xbox One

Xbox One users will no longer have to reach over for their tablets during their gameplay or Netflix binging sessions if they want to...

Yahoo Users: No More Log-Ins Through Facebook or Google

Yahoo is doing away with the practice of allowing account holders to log in to their Yahoo accounts using their Facebook or Google personas...

Google Chrome Beta Browser Adds Hands-Free Voice Search

Google's Chrome beta browser has just been updated with new hands-free voice search capabilities that will allow users to do more with their browsers...