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Google Takes Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs and Talk Out of Beta

It looks like Google, starting today, is going to take Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Docs and Google Talk out of beta removing the familiar little “Beta” tag from the bottom of the app’s logos.
Gmail had been widely popular especially since its launch in 2004 by Google back when it was an invite-only service, [...]

Download IE8, Microsoft Will Give To Food Bank

Microsoft, after recently releasing what they claim to be one of the fastest browsers, Internet Explorer 8, is starting a new campaign in a charity push to get people to download the new browser.
According to the new site, browserforthebetter.com and other Microsoft sources, the company plans to start donating about $1.15 to food banks for [...]

Google Isn’t Afraid of Microsoft’s New Bing Search

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, in a video interview with the Fox Business Network, said that “I do not think Bing’s arrival has changed what we are doing.” and also said “It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year”.  Schmidt also talked about mobile phones, and said that this is their year. [...]

New Search Method: Google Squared Goes Live

Google’s latest Labs graduate is none other than the new Google Squared, a col new way to search which creates different tables for your results based on a main category you search for.  Say you searched for “Characters In The Office” (by the way my favorite TV show)-your result would probably be a table with [...]