A few hours ago there were reports that the Samsung Fascinate, Verizon’s variant of the Galaxy S, will be launched on the 9th of September. But now, a spec sheet has revealed that the phone will be released a day earlier. The new information comes from a screen shot of a Verizon document.From the spec list we also get information about the fact that the Samsung Fascinate will be coming equipped with Blockbuster Mobile, a feature found on the Motorola Droid 2 and Motorola Droid X. With the feature you will be able to download full-length movies on the go.The device will also come

Google got some serious competition in the face of Bing, and unlike some companies which would’ve just relied on their current success and ignored the potential competition, Google are actively developing various new features for their search engine and upgrading it all the time. The latest feature which is apparently being tested on a limited number of accounts, gives you search results as you’re typing your query into the box.The feature was first spotted by SEO consultant Rob Ousbey, who had it enabled on his own account. It works pretty much as you would expect

Bing Maps has just been upgraded and now has a shiny new interface that’s a lot more streamlined than the previous one and gives you a noticeably easier access to the service’s various functionality. Also, it also has a new app with a rather innovative purpose – calculating your taxi fares.To make use of the Taxi Fare Calculator, you’ll have to click on the “map apps” button which you’ll find around the bottom of your screen, and from then select the Taxi Fare Calculator. The interface update itself is quite pleasant too, as you’ll

Google is on the downswing with Beijing completely banning the search engine unless it complies to the native legal requirements. There is more bad news for Google lovers as speculations are abound that Google may be replaced by Bing as the default search browser on the iPhone. Apple and Microsoft have been negotiating for weeks to see the plan through. Apple and Google have shared a nice relationship until now but, with Google targeting the smartphone market with its Nexus One handset, the two have become competitors of a sort. This is a presumptuous reason and the exact

Ready to get your Bing on, iPhone owners? That curious little Microsoft search engine you shrugged off just a few months ago could become a mainstay in your daily routine if BusinessWeek's sources are correct. According to a pair of persons familiar with the matter, Apple and Microsoft are discussing dropping Google as the default search engine on Apple's somewhat popular handset -- talks that have been underway for "weeks," apparently. BW paints the move as further evidence of an escalating rivalry between Apple and Google. In fact, one BW source claims that,

It’s obvious that Microsoft (with its Bing search engine) has been busy trying to mount a serious challenge against Google’s dominance in the search business. Unfortunately it ran into a tiny pothole on Thursday evening when the Bing.com website went down, resulting in a browser error message when users went to the site. Microsoft has since acknowledged the issue on Twitter, and has confirmed that it’s looking into the matter. Do you recall when Google’s main site was down?

Microsoft's efforts to try and claw back some of Google's utter dominance in the search arena look to be paying off as it nabbed another 1 per cent of the US market.The company's Bing search engine climbed to 9.43 per cent of the US market in July, up from 8.23 per cent last June.When you add in the numbers from Yahoo after the two companies agreed a joint search and advertising deal, the portion grows to a shade over 20 per cent.Google's dominance suffered slightly as a result, with the company's US market share slipping from 77.54 per cent to 78.48 per cent, and globally

Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, has had several weeks to prove its worth. It's proved popular, picking up market share from both Yahoo and Google to become the second most used search service on the web. But there's more to Bing than first meets the eye. Like Google, it has hidden depths and additional features. Here are ten useful bits of Bing you may have missed.1. Get more from the USMost of Bing's mash-up functionality is embedded in the US version of the site. You don't need an anonymised proxy - like hidemyass.com - to fool the site though. All

Microsoft's new search engine Bing has made inroads into the search market with ComScore suggesting that it now has an 8.4 per cent share, with Google holding steady at 65 per cent.The full month figures from ComScore for June have shown that the steep gains made in the opening fortnight slowed, but the news will nonetheless buoy Microsoft after it took the decision to relaunch its search. However, there are already murmurs that the true impact of Bing will not be known until it has been up and running for a quarter – and the novelty of a new search engine has faded.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has expressed her doubts that Bing will finally crack the search market for Microsoft. The arrival of Bing, backed by a massive marketing budget, represents Microsoft's latest attempt to gain a bigger market share in internet search. But Bartz, speaking at the Bank of America US Tech conference, said that a short term uplift would not lead to any kind of key market shift. No scale"They're not going to get scale through Bing," insisted Bartz . "They're going to get some temporary interest." Bartz also insisted that