Our top picks from DemoSpring 2010

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	Demo debrief: Rafe and Josh's favorites The DemoSpring 2010 conference, which took place earlier this week, has left us with a fresh crop of companies (new and old) with ideas that promise to make our cars, pockets, businesses, and living rooms better. Prior to the start of the conference, we wrote up a few of the top companies to watch. And after seeing their presentations, we're naming our favorite pitches and products from the two-day conference. Read more  Photos: DemoSpring 2010's gadgets and characters  See all of CNET's DemoSpring coverage Rafe Needleman Editor, Webware.com New on Webware China blocking some Google searches Posted by Tom Krazit China did not erase Google from the Internet this week, but it did take a few steps in response to Google's decision to move its search engine to Hong Kong. Chinese Internet users can still access Google.com.hk, but in some cases, users are being prevented from clicking through to Web sites listed in search results for sensitive topics.  Read more  Foursquare coming to Bing Maps Posted by Caroline McCarthy Microsoft's Bing Maps tool will soon feature tips and comments from location-based networking service Foursquare. Don't panic: This won't broadcast your location to anyone hunting around on Bing Maps. It will, however, pull up the quick "tips" that Foursquare users can attach to a given business or other venues.  Read more  Firefox Mobile: Where it stands now Posted by Jessica Dolcourt Just to get it out of the way, Mozilla had no official news to share at CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas. That didn't stop us from catching up with Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice president of mobile, to lay a finger on the pulse of Firefox's browser for mobile phones. The good news, if you're patient (and not a Windows phone user), is that Mozilla is also actively working on a version of Firefox for Nokia and Android phones.  Read more  Start-up hopes to bridge real, virtual worlds Posted by Stephen Shankland Micazook, a start-up trying to bring some real-world flavor to virtual worlds on the Net, plans to publicly launch an online realm it calls Project X for now. Project X attempts to overlay the free-wheeling style of Second Life over a model of the real world. The company has obtained high-resolution imagery for many parts of the world, combined it with data for where roads are located, and used it as a foundation for the virtual world.  Read more  How to share ridiculously large files (the video) Posted by Josh Lowensohn Did you somehow miss our feature from earlier this month on how to share ridiculously large files? Does reading make you sleepy? My CNET colleague Tom Merritt has taken it upon himself to present some of the highlights from that how-to guide in video form, so you can absorb its knowledge through moving images instead.  Read more  New Webware for your iPhone New Yahoo iPhone app lets you doodle your search Posted by Jessica Dolcourt If you're Yahoo, looking at a landscape where Google Search and Microsoft's Bing app pretty much have search sewn up, how do you get noticed? You try something a little eccentric. The free Yahoo Sketch-a-Search app does what the name implies, letting your fingertip inscribe a shape on the map that will become your searching area.  Read more  Digg's belated iPhone app brings native goodness Posted by Josh Lowensohn Digg's new iPhone app, which arrived this week, does not bring any of the new, or exciting features announced by the company at the SXSW festival. It will, however bring a better and more complete Digg experience to iPhone users than what they've had with the company's mobile Web app.  Read more  More Webware  Webware RSS feed  The Webware 100  About Webware.com
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