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Bing’s share of searches jumped 18 percent in March — Hitwise puts Microsoft’s Bing at a distant, but narrowing third place among decision-and/or-search engines. Google slipped from 71 to 70 percent of all U.S.searches conducted in the four weeks ending Aug. 29, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 17 percent, 10 percent and 2 percent, respectively.

How much will Gmail’s push feature eat your iPhone’s battery? — ReadWriteWeb writer Frederic did the fact-hunting for me and found that Apple’s official estimate is 20%. It was on Engadget, so it must be almost true!

3Com reports a 91% drop in earnings, but it’s complicated – The Wall Street Journal explains 3Com’s year-to-year drop “in the absence of a litigation gain it recorded a year earlier and as demand remained weak for networking equipment.” Maybe all you need to know is that revenue dropped 15% to $290 million. And shares are up on the news.

Jobvite Source makes it official that Facebook is the new HR recruiting datatbase — Jobvite’s new app turns your social networks into a potential-employee finder, rolling up Facebook, LinkedIn, and the rest into a job-search-oriented dashboard. No, it’s not free — it’s available with either a standalone or a company-wide license.

OK, I can’t stand the missing period in the Trollim logo anymore — “Code.Battle.Prevail” nags me from the corner of my eye. It sets off my internal trained syntax error detector. Shouldn’t there be a period after Prevail? Help me out, people who still write code for a living.

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