Monthly Archives: March 2010

This is how Bing’s turning off the lights

What you see above is the Earth Hour style of Bing…which is today’s pictures only with lights off. Quoting ourselves from two posts ago, “it’s nice that Microsoft wants to spread the cause of saving the environment, but for those who did their research will know that it will use more energy to show black on flat panel screen that it does for other colors.” Continue reading

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Foursquare unintentionally goes dark for a day

Not too long ago, we made fun at ourselves and Bing for going dark during Earth Hour. Foursquare had their moment yesterday, but it wasn’t for Earth Hour – they forgot to renew their domain name, causing the entire service to … Continue reading

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Reminder: Down time ahead for Earth Hour!

Just a quick reminder, we’ll have our first downtime  for celebration of Earth Day 2010. Any visitor coming to the site will be told that it’s down for Earth Hour and it’ll be back in a hour. We made fun … Continue reading

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Bing to turn the lights off, use more power

Bing has announced yesterday that it will turn off the lights on their search site by making it darker, similar to what Google did 2008. It’s nice that Microsoft wants to spread the cause of saving the environment, but for those … Continue reading

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Spotify coming stateside in Q3 2010

The Senior VP of Spotify, the popular online music streaming app in Europe, recently announced that Spotify has plans to come to the United States in Q3 2010. Last reports said that Spotify would launch stateside in late 2009, but that … Continue reading

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