Google vs. Yahoo vs Bing

by Tom Spring, pcworld
In the arena of world-class search, can Bing bring the hurt to Google and Yahoo? Microsoft's newest search engine comes packed with search tools such as an Explorer Pane for refining searches, Quick Previews for sneaking a peek at a site before visiting it, and Sentiment Extraction for making sense of product reviews.
Google and Yahoo, meanwhile, are no chumps. Google has outwitted its competitors by delivering solid search results and cool tools such as Street Views. Yahoo has done a masterful job of integrating search results with its rich network of Yahoo content. Search for the musician Sting within Yahoo, and presto--you're watching Yahoo music videos or listening to streaming audio of Sting singing "Desert Rose" from within your search results.
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Nintendo to launch new version of Wii Fit: report

reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd plans to launch a new version of its "Wii Fit" home exercise game this autumn, aiming to help boost sluggish sales of its Wii console in Japan, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.
Called "Wii Fit plus," the new version will allow users to compete with friends and family over the Internet to lose weight and other activities, the newspaper said, without citing sources.
Nintendo will also launch a new version of its popular "Mario" game series in the second half of 2009, the Nikkei said.
A spokesman for Nintendo declined to comment.
The focus of these kinds of activities is towards initiating a heart workout, a popular exercise process overly supports slower, controlled motions, but it’s the fun method to fitness of Wii Fit who can still be players hooked on fitness for ages to appear.
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Google waves goodbye to e-mail

By Brett Winterford, itnews
The Sydney-based brothers that built Google Maps have released to developers a new tool called Google Wave that has the potential to succeed e-mail, instant messaging and collaboration tools.
Google Wave (see screenshot gallery right), announced at Google's IO developer event in San Francisco, is an Ajax-based communications tool hosted in the cloud that blurs the boundaries between an e-mail message, instant message and rich-text document.
The technology was built by Danish-born and US-educated brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, now based in Sydney's Google office.
The Rasmussen brothers were also the driving force behind the team that invented the mapping technology behind Google Maps.
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