In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location, and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes Web typography much more attractive. @font-face is a CSS rule that allows Web designers to reference fonts not installed on end-user machines. Just as you...

Bing is now doing Twitter. The recently launched Microsoft search engine is now allowing users to search for various kinds of real-time data, including tweets from Twitter. Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s Search Technology Center, wrote on the Bing blog Wednesday that the search engine...

WALTHAM, Mass. and LONDON, June 24, 2009 MetraTech Corp., the innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider, has been named as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards finalist in Communications Sector Partner of the Year. “We are proud to be recognized...

By Chris Scott Barr Lets say that you purchased yourself a new netbook not long ago, and come this fall you decide to upgrade to Windows 7. How exactly are you planning on doing that without an optical drive? Sure, with you being the tech-savvy customer, you won’t have too much trouble doing this....

Microsoft is among the organizations paying tribute to legendary musician Michael Jackson, with an offer to Xbox 360 owners who are Xbox Live subscribers. According to a note we just got from a Microsoft PR person, members can download the video for the classic track “Thriller,” free from...

(Credit: Sprint) Attention, iPhone users: We’ve found a way (via Pre Thinking and Sprint’s Facebook page) that you can save up to $1,200 over two years on your service plans! All you have to do is buy a Palm Pre and sign up for service with Sprint. … View original post here: Sprint...

A lot of us here at TechCrunch quite like Bing , Microsoft’s new search, sorry, discovery, no sorry, decision engine . For a number of queries it seems to provide better results than Google. But that doesn’t mean the public will start using it. And this video by College Humor I think lays...

For the last few weeks it hasn’t been unusual to see AT&T among Twitter’s trending topics — following its disappointing performance at WWDC and the activation issues with the iPhone last week, the carrier hasn’t exactly been garnering positive reactions from its legions...

A couple of days ago we wrote about Facebook’s new Live Stream Box funtionality . Ustream was the first to offer a live video solution for users with Facebook Pages. But the sign up for the free option is limited, and the white-label version carries a one-time fee of $15,000. Enter Stickam. It’s...

When you’ve just gotten laid off, the last thing you want to hear is that you can’t cash your last check because of one final payroll screwup. But that’s apparently exactly what’s going on over at MySpace, which laid off over 30% of its staff (or around 480 employees) earlier...

One of the hottest areas of search right now is real time search, which attempts to find results based on what is happening right now. Twitter’s search engine fast becoming one of the key ways to navigate the service and discover what people are thinking about any subject at any given moment....

By Shane McGlaun We talked earlier about pricing for Windows 7 now that its launch is getting closer. The OS will debut in October, which is only months away. Many are expecting great things out of Windows 7 and it better deliver where Vista failed. Microsoft says that anyone who buys a Vista equipped...