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How Bing is out-innovating Google

Google AcquiresTelephony Startup SayNow

Google Engages in Subtle Form of Censorship

The Biggest Stories in Tech, Social Media & Marketing This Morning
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

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Microsoft Launches Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Cloud Service in India

Microsoft India, today, announced the launch of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, the cloud version of new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 release that delivers new levels of productivity to sales, service and marketing organizations. Specifically to meet the requirements of local customers in India, ‘Hindi’ version of the application has also been introduced.

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Google Acquires Telephony Startup SayNow

In the wake of new Google Voice announcements, we’ve just learned that Google has acquired SayNow, a startup in the telephony space. The terms of the deal have not yet been released.

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Why Google Acquired eBook Technologies
Google has made its first acquisition of 2011 with eBook Technologies, a company that focuses on hardware and software distribution of e-books and e-book readers. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Google Previews Its Tablet-Optimized Android Honeycomb OS

This preview offers the best glimpse that we have seen thus far of the tablet-optimized Android. At CES earlier this month, Google showed off Honeycomb alongside the Motorola Xoom tablet.
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Google To Buy fflick for $10 Million [REPORT]
Google plans to buy fflick, a Twitter-based movie recommendation service, for about $10 million.

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Google Engages in Subtle Form of Censorship

Google, the company that fought censorship in China and vowed not to censor even anti-Semitism, has begun a subtle censorship campaign of its own.

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Google to Make 2011 Biggest Hiring Year Ever

Who says there are no jobs out there? Not Google. Recent changes at the top nonwithstanding, the company is planning to make 2011 its biggest hiring year in its history.

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How Bing is out-innovating Google :

Editor’s note: Business Insider is contributing a series of columns to CNN.com that challenge commonly held beliefs about the tech world.
(Business Insider) — Google is one of the smartest, most innovative companies in the world, but in its core business — online search — it’s being routinely shown up by Microsoft’s third-place search engine, Bing.
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Windows Phone 7 vs. Android: Can you choose just one?

Zdnet News

Windows Phone 7 is hot, slick, and new while Android 2.2 is on fire in the mobile space. Come look into the mind of a mobile mad man as I try to figure out which of these two I am choosing for myself. 
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Google vs. Bing: In a search race

THE ECONOMICS TIMES

Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, was lured by Bing’s flight fare tracker. Paul Callan, a photography buff in Chicago, fell for Bing’s vivid background images.              
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7 cool things to do with Windows Phone 7

Zdnet News
Windows Phone 7 devices launch on Monday, 8 November, and since I have been using the OS for a few months I thought it would be good to present seven things to look forward to doing on your new phone.
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Microsoft: More Windows Phone 7 stock due in the coming weeks

Zdnet News
Microsoft spent hundreds of millions to shift gears, staff up a new Windows Phone team, create new and more locked-down smartphone reference designs and launch/advertise the new Windows Phone 7s
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Backyard Scofflaws Found on Earth -- Google Earth

FOX BUSINESS NEWS
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- A town on New York's Long Island is using Google Earth to find backyard pools that don't have the proper permits.
The town of Riverhead has used the satellite image service to find about 250 pools whose owners never filled out the required paperwork.
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