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Morning Xtra: Giant Anti-Missile Blimp, Insider Trading in Pirate Bay Sale?

by Chad Mumm on July 2, 2009 at 11:50 AM


Cruise missiles fly low and slow, so they're tough to track on horizon-limited radar. Solution: the largest blimp ever made for the U.S. military. [From: Fox News]

When trading volume and stock prices of your company explode the week before you announce you're buying Pirate Bay, don't be surprised when words like "insider trading" and "securities fraud" start floating around. [From: Wired]

Google's in full-on money-saving mode and it's cutting nonessential services. The latest to go? Comments on Google News stories. [From: Newsvine]

The millions of dollars Microsoft is spending on Bing promotion may be paying off. New numbers show Bing has taken a tiny bite out of Google's search market share. [From: Fox News]

Even though the Chinese government postponed its mandate to computer manufacturers to include controversial filtering software on Chinese computers, some companies went ahead and did it anyway. [From: AP/ Yahoo! Tech]

Google has beefed up Gmail's labeling system. Finally, labels on the Web e-mail client behave like folders -- including drag and drop, show/hide functions, and an easier-to-use location. [From: Official Gmail Blog]

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