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Microsoft launches Bing TV adThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:40PMTV marketing push for search engine will run for three months and aims to end Google's popularity Microsoft will today launch its first TV ad campaign to promote Bing, the search engine the software giant is backing to be a Google killer. The TV campaign, created by JWT, forms part of a multi-million marketing push that will run for the next three months . The first of three TV ads launches ...

Southern rockers say goodbye at Vail showThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:39PMVAIL, Colorado - Southern jam-rock trio Outformation, which plays in Vail Friday, is the embodiment of the phrase "short but sweet." The Atlanta-based band has only been playing full-time for a few years, but in that time, it has experienced unusually rapid success and amassed a legion of loyal fans across the country. Some might find it odd, then, that the group is embarking on its "farewell ...

BHAS recall vote cost district nearly $14KThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:37PMST. JOSEPH - The Feb. 23 recall election that failed to remove three members of the Benton Harbor school board from office cost $13,740, according to the Berrien County clerk's office.

Oscars 2010: the year Hollywood ate itselfThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:33PMSure, The Hurt Locker wasn't a box-office hit and Precious positioned itself as outside white-bread commercialism, but all the big Oscar winners were irredeemably Hollywood The Academy may still be congratulating themselves on picking for their best picture award arguably the least commercially successful winner of all time (over the most successful). But if we step back a bit, we can see that ...

Alameda designer makes creative jewelryThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:25PMJessica Feinsmith, 38, turned a childhood passion for jewelry into a business

Obama Launches Export-doubling StrategyThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:21PMPresident said boosting exports was a "short-term imperative" to create jobs, it was also critical for long-term U.S. prosperity as 95% of the world’s fastest-growing markets lie outside U.S. borders.

A Galaxie far, far awayThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:17PMGalaxie 500 were once lumped in with many of the shoegazing outfits currently hopping on the revival bandwagon. But their reissued albums show they were heartbreakingly apart, writes Alexis Petridis If you came of musical majority as the 80s bled into the 90s, if your age means you can remember when a chart placing of 38 and Snub TV showing a homemade video represented a dizzying peak of ...

The first internet electionThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:11PMI am more than certain that the next general election will be Malta’s first internet election and the political candidates must be well-versed in this medium because the internet will determine who will win the general elections.

Aussie view: Don't feel sheepish about PhoenixThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:10PMOPINION: The Kiwis are coming. So, as the snarling overdogs in this mostly one-sided sporting rivalry, some will feel compelled to put the upstart Wellington Phoenix back in their provincial box.