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Archive for June 2009

iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update

Posted by: Costa Designs on: June 17, 2009

The free iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update includes some great new features, as well as all the features from previous updates. iPhone OS 3.0 also lets you run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games1 and more. If you’ve never updated before, now is the perfect time.

Microsoft's New Search Engine Bing

Posted by: Costa Designs on: June 15, 2009

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing excels at finding a good restaurant.

Unlike Google, which generally returns links to mere web sites, Bing crawls listings at review services like Yelp.com and CitySearch. It then summarizes the results and displays a scorecard for each, rating things like service, drinks, food, wait time, lunch offerings, and so on, all laid out in a neat comparative table.

Google's 411 for Your Phone

Posted by: Costa Designs on: June 12, 2009

Now you can find businesses for free from any phone – no internet access required, and with no 411 charges. Just call GOOG-411 and say where you are and what you’re looking for.

No need to memorize or write down phone numbers.
Call and connect directly to businesses.
Get the businesses’ info sent to your phone for [...]