While it remains premature to state victory, Microsoft’s latest attempt at search, Bing, is off to a respectable start.  At a whopping two weeks old, Bing has generated a nice bump in users, possibly thanks to spreading the word about the newly released search engine.

According to comScore.com, Bing’s market share in the U.S. rose from 9.1 to 11.1 percent between June 2nd and June 6th, an impressive figure of its impressions.  It is common for new products and services to see an increase in interest and publicity initially, the trick and goal is to capture that interest and maintain it.  This becomes especially important given the competition for search business between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, the search business market leaders.  Microsoft has spent much effort and funds promoting Bing on both the internet and television.

Microsoft has succeeded in gaining attention, and is most likely aligning themselves for continued momentum.  Not to mention the fact that Bing must perform on a level to compete with number one search engine, no simple task considering the enormity of Google.  Relayed by Deep Blue Interactive, Florida web design and interactive marketing solutions.

Apple Inc. has generated yet another sensational stir by announcing its latest in citizen journalism, err, smartphone technology, with the iPhone 3GS.  The next-generation iPhone was introduced on Monday when Apple demonstrated a new video recording function that has the capacity to transform millions of iPhones into tiny video cameras-capturing their surroundings with the touch of a screen.

Completed and complimented with a “Send to YouTube option”, it has never been easier to upload iPhone content onto the most popular web video site.  This feature will essentially create millions of citizen journalists, armed and ready to share their stories and eyewitness accounts at a moment’s notice.  The process of gathering, editing and sharing news has never been faster in the history of journalism, or enjoyed such an open sharing platform.  The public is becoming increasingly savvy and educated on the techniques and best strategies to use while reporting online, and the ettiquette is continuously improving.

In response to the immense growth in online reporting by individuals on YouTube, the company added a “Citizen News” channel to support the increased need (though some report that the channel is not updated frequently enough). 

Technology is improving the method in which users move what they create to where they display it, a very crucial improvement.  To locate availability of Apple’s 3GS, visit their website for details.  Relayed by Deep Blue Interactive, Florida web design and interactive marketing firm.

Thursday a German data protection official threatened search powerhouse Google with “unspecified sanctions” should the company not conform with the country’s strict privacy laws regarding the use of Google Street View.

German data protection regulator for the city of Hamburg, Johannes Caspar, relayed that officials were leaning toward using force to pursue unspecified sanctions unless Google provided written guarantees agreeing to alterations before 10 a.m. local time on Wednesday.  Google’s German headquarters is located in Hamburg.

It seems the two entities are of differing opinion when it comes to 12 points involving the operation of Google’s Street View.  One example is that in Germany, there are privacy laws in place that forbid distribution of pictures taken of individuals on their property without their consent.

Currently, Google is posting the captured data and removing it when a subject/property owner makes a complaint.  Some are concerned about Google’s handling of the data it records that has been removed.  In Germany, private citizens may also sue Google in German court for unauthorized filming.

In the city of Kiel on the Baltic Sea, residents placed stickers on their doors last year warning Google not to film their property on Google Street View.  Google has been diligently compiling photos of France, Italy, Spain, Britain, the Netherlands and more in Europe since 2008 for its new Street View feature.  Thus far, approximately 300 people in Germany have voiced complaints to officials regarding the filming.

Google has not yet determined a date for introducing Street View into Germany, which is the largest of the European economy.  Both sides are working to resolve the impasse.  Relayed by Deep Blue Interactive, South Florida web design and online marketing firm.

Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Research and his team have been discreetly developing WolframAlpha for years.  WolframAlpha is a search tool intended to answer lengthy, more in-depth queries.  What Wolfram was very clear on, is that the new search tool is not intended to compete with Google, despite chatter to the contrary and the fact that the tool does not search web pages.

WolframAlpha has the capacity to answer a wide variety of search queries, making it a very useful and anticipated web product.  While creator Stephen Wolfram may be interested in developing potential partnerships with search companies, he is displeased with rumors that WolframAlpha is aligning itself to compete with them.

The anticipated WolframAlpha will not help with movie times or camera shopping, but rather it will provide the answers to longer queries using the plethora of data the company has accumulated.  The web product is expected to be available at worlframalpha.com this month, yet it will not be a completed product at the time of its release.  The project will begin as a working version, and amass increasing amounts of information over the years, providing better answers to complicated queries.  Relayed by Deep Blue Interactive, your Florida web design and SEO solution.

General Electric announced on Monday that it has discovered a breakthrough in the form of a digital storage device with the capacity to store the information contained on 100 DVD’s, on one disc.  The advance in storage is currently in the laboratory success stage.

The breakthrough disc is said to be in the laboratory success stage until it is proven to work with products that have the potential to be mass-produced at affordable prices.  Industry analysts and optical storage experts who were informed of the breakthrough agree that it holds the potential to push the envelope in consumer, commercial and scientific markets.  Low cost storage evolves consistently, giving G.E. the potential to be the next big thing in low-cost digital storage. 

G.E. has also been developing promising endeavors in the field of holographic storage, the optical process that stores three-dimensional images as well as the 1’s and 0’s of digital data.  Holographic storage may be able to package much more information than conventional optical technology like DVDs and high-capacity Blu-Ray discs.  Relayed by Deep Blue Interactive, Florida web design and interactive marketing solution.