Users are starting to use "Bing"

Things are starting to look better for Microsoft's Bing. Users are starting to use "Bing" as a verb, and searches are up. But Bloomberg warns that it is a long way from unseating Google and it has yet to see advertisers using the service in any real numbers.

In April about 12 percent of all Web searches were performed using Microsoft's year-old search engine. Meanwhile, Google's share is flat at 64 percent. Redmond has has been trying to build its presence in search since 2004 and spent huge amounts in marketing.

Core i5 580M to replace Core i5 540M

Intel launched the Core i5 540M back in January and it will be selling this CPU in the Power Optimised Performance (POP2) market segment until Q4 2010.

At this time, the company plans to launch new CPU simply called Core i5 580M. While the Core i5 540M works at 2.53GHz the new Core i5 580M will be bumped up to 2.66GHz. With the help of Turbo this new CPU will increase its clock to 3.33GHz, while its graphics can jump all the way to 766MHz.

But Facebook knows all about you

In the middle of multiple rows about privacy, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has mentioned privately that he has enough information on users to tell if their relationship is going to end.

According David Kirkpatrick’s soon to be released book, “The Facebook Effect“, Kirkpatrick confirms that relationship patterns were something that Mark Zuckerberg often toyed with. In the book, Kirkpatrick writes that as the service’s engineers built more and more tools that could uncover such insights, Zuckerberg conducted experiments.

next gen centrino to get fast network

Intel’s next generation platform scheduled for Q1 2011 is going offer a few novelties on the WiMAX side. The Huron River platform is supposed to replace Calpella and it will pack Sandy Bridge 32nm monolithic CPU and graphics, all on one unified core.
When it comes to the network part they will continue pushing Intel's Centrino Advanced N + WiMAX 6250 adapter, codenamed Kilmer Peak. Intel has started using Kilmer Peak 2x2 AGN adapters in its top of the Calpella high end notebook list.