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Tech News Flash: Friday -- May 11, 2012

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Bing Makes Triple-Column Play With New Interface Design
Shining Some Light on Sunspots
Dutch Officials Do Battle With Pirate Hordes
Google Drive for Android: Just About as Good as the Rest
Facebook Moves Its App Flea Market Indoors

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Podcast
Yahoo's Thompson: Sloppy Whopper or Poor Career Hygiene? (13:04 minutes)
In this episode: Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson comes under attack when it's
revealed his resume has for years falsely claimed he holds a degree in
computer science, a discrepancy discovered by an activist shareholder
who wants changes made to the company's board of directors; Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg dons his dress hoodie for his company's IPO road show;
jurors reach an impasse regarding a key question in Oracle's lawsuit
against Google; Nevada gives the green light for Google to take its
self-driving cars for a spin in the state.
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Today's Story Highlights

Bing Makes Triple-Column Play With New Interface Design
Microsoft unveiled an update to Bing on Thursday that strongly leverages
social networks, including a redesigned interface to provide a three-
column look. Responses to queries keyed into Bing will list experts and
the user's friends, who can comment on the topic in the right panel.
A new feature called "Snapshot" will display useful information about a
specific place or topic in the middle column.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75087.html

Shining Some Light on Sunspots
Right now, if you look at the sky at sunrise or sunset when the sun's
light is dim, you might be able to see Sunspot AR1476, which is now
wending its way across the face of Sol, with your naked eye. The sunspot
measures 160,000 km across, or about a dozen times Earth's diameter.
Eyeballing the sun might hurt your eyes, of course, so it's better to
avoid looking directly at it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75080.html

Dutch Officials Do Battle With Pirate Hordes
Today in international tech news: The Netherlands takes its blockade of
The Pirate Bay a step further, ordering links and access tips be removed
from the Net. Elsewhere, streaming service Ustream is attacked in an
apparent attempt to cripple feeds coming out of Russia, data roaming
charges in the EU get set to plunge, and China's Internet censors try to
mute 70 million people.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75085.html

Google Drive for Android: Just About as Good as the Rest
Keep Everything. Share Anything. When a company like Google uses a
tagline that includes the words "share anything" for a Dropbox-like
cloud file storage system, my immediate reaction is "with whom?" Google,
after-all, is a company that's made its money delivering ads based on
what it learns about our habits. There's been debate about this very
question since Drive launched.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75062.html

Facebook Moves Its App Flea Market Indoors
Looking to get a tighter grip on mobile and hoping to corral the
multitude of apps available for its platform, Facebook on Wednesday
launched App Center, a hub for Facebook apps of both desktop and mobile
varieties. "The App Center is built to drive growth for great apps,
whether they're built on iOS, Android or [the] mobile Web," said
Facebook spokesperson Malorie Lucich.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75081.html

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