New on Webware.com | | Zune HD's Bing-powered Web browser Posted by Donald Bell Last Tuesday, I shared my positive impressions of the mobile Web browser Microsoft is including in its upcoming Zune HD portable media player. What I didn't share (not because I didn't want to) were the photos I took of the Zune HD browser in action. Here they are. Read more | | Why it's time to ditch Digsby Posted by Seth Rosenblatt When it comes to program installation, I'm a strong believer in caveat emptor. If a software publisher warns you during the installation process that it will install the Yahoo search bar or a Firefox extension along with its program, and makes it clear that you can opt out of it, then so be it. However, the popular multi-protocol instant-messaging client Digsby will grab your processor cycles when you're not looking and use them without giving you a say in the matter. Read more | | Hands on: Google Voice versus 3jam Posted by Jessica Dolcourt At the end of July, a small start-up called 3jam introduced a virtual phone service that takes on Google Voice. While each is a beta-phase call-forwarding service, it became clear after dozens of calls, text messages, and voice mails, that there are important differences between the two, both on paper and in real-world testing. Read more | | Twitter plans to integrate retweets Posted by Harrison Hoffman Conceived by the Twitter community, retweets have become an important part of the site's ecosystem. On Thursday, Twitter's Biz Stone announced that the company would be integrating retweets into the service and application programming interface. Read more | | uTorrent prepares for version 2.0 Posted by Seth Rosenblatt The first beta of the next generation of the uTorrent client is available and contains some useful upgrades that address how torrenting has changed in the past few years. New is a transfer cap which will allow users who have cap-limited bandwidth to throttle down their torrenting habits and stay away from overage charges or having their service shut off. There's also now support for uTP and UDP. Read more | | | Search tools and news | | ReMail brings full-text e-mail search to the iPhone Posted by Josh Lowensohn I'm a heavy e-mailer on my iPhone, and one of the things that really bugs me about the built-in mail client is that it falls just short of being ready for business use. Newly released app ReMail aims to fix that, by indexing an entire e-mail account to provide full-text search for all of your messages. Read more | | Twilight time for Yahoo search Posted by Tom Krazit It must be a tough time to be a Yahoo search engineer. Following the company's decision two weeks ago to shutter its search business in a deal with Microsoft's Bing, Yahoo has gone from a respected--if smaller--player in the business of constructing search engines, to an awkward participant in tech conferences and other public gatherings. Read more | | | | | Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most | CNET offers a wide variety of newsletters on everything from tech industry news to the latest games and gear. Browse the entire list now. | | | Manage newsletters | | | |
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