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Bing.com has gone live earlier than expected , but it's still in beta and still in pieces: it takes a little jiggery-pokery with your location to access several features. Clever features, granted, but quite a few of them look suspiciously familiar. Change your location (in the top right) to the US and you'll suddenly get access to more features, such as improved shopping and travel options. Done that? Right then, dive in. There's plenty to like: it's handy having our search history listing down the left-hand side, and we were looking forward to being able to hover over a link and get a preview. Only now we discover that preview is a just a small text box, with little in the way of context. We've seen the idea of previews implemented elsewhere much better, and it got us thinking we've seen a few of Bing's features before -- but does Bing do them better? Mouseover link previews: CoolPreviews Bing's small text boxes aren't a patch on the full-sized pre...

Details of Sony's new PSP Go have leaked ahead of the company's Tuesday press conference at E3 in a big way, with press shots appearing on gaming site Eurogamer and a video from PlayStation Network show Qore on YouTube. And while we don't yet have a comprehensive list of the new PSP's feature list, the leaked info gives us a pretty good idea of what we can expect -- including hints of several new games. The leaked video is embedded below. Host Veronica Belmont (formerly of this parish) talks to John Koller, director of hardware marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment America, about the new portable console. (Note: The audio is out of sync and exhibits a buzz, but it's watchable enough -- though we wouldn't be surprised to see it pulled off YouTube soon.) From the video, here's what we can glean so far: Form factor : The PSP Go has a 97mm (3.8-inch) wide screen (versus 109mm (4.3 inches) on all previous PSP models). It's said to be 43 per cent lighter ...

Palm's executive chairman is Jon Rubinstein, once head of hardware engineering at Apple. And it just so happens that the Palm Pre -- his currently gestating baby boy -- knows exactly how to sync with iTunes, and the code that tricks iTunes into thinking the phone is an iPod is built right into its firmware. No user hacks, no extra software needed. Apple won't be pleased. At the All Things Digital D7 conference this week, Rubinstein demonstrated the iTunes syncing ability on stage with the Wall Street Journal 's Walt Mossberg. Walt asked how he thought Apple would feel about Palm using iTunes, to which Rubinstein claimed Apple is "practically a monopolist" and that people should be able to use music they pay for in any way they like. Fair enough. They can do that easily, however, by dragging and dropping their DRM-free music from anywhere on their computer to any supported device. Palm doesn't need to use iTunes at all, and Rubinstein's claim, while admi...

The Guardian reports that O2 is dancing the happy dance after scoring the exclusive rights to the Palm Pre , fending off rivals such as Orange and T-Mobile in a wedding-bouquet-style catfight over the hotly anticipated mobile phone . No doubt O2 is hoping the Pre will help it keep the early adopters it won with its exclusive deal to push the the iPhone , which could soon be set free from its exclusivity chains in the UK and be available on other networks. The Pre could also tempt Apple-haters, who have hailed the Pre as their touchscreen saviour, to move over to the bubbly blue network. As a mixed crowd of iPhone lovers and loathers alike, we chatted about our pre-Pre anxiety in last week's CNET UK podcast . O2 wouldn't comment on the deal, calling it "rumour and speculation". What is it : Touchscreen webOS phone with slide-out keyboard What we think : It's not without its flaws, but, thanks to the solid webOS platform, the Pre is a worthy rival to the iPhone We...