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In today’s ‘Tech Bytes’, you’ve heard of Googling something or TiVoing your favorite show, now Microsoft is hoping you’ll "bing", that’s the name  for Microsoft’s new search engine due out next week. The company’s hoping to challenge Google with ‘Bing’, but this tool’s aimed at people trying to make decisions on what to buy, planning a trip or searching for local businesses. Bing.com goes live next Thursday.

A single penny can’t even buy a piece of candy these days, but now one phone company has a pretty sweet deal: a Smartphone for just one cent. USA Today‘s Ed Baig gives us a look.

“It’s not some discontinued models they are trying to get rid of. Now this device has 3G and it has WIFI; it even has a video camera among other multimedia features.  Now it’s not perfect: The keyboard is cramped; there’s not a lot of memory; it doesn’t come with a headphone, so there…and
the interface is not exactly intuitive. There are a couple of menus that drove me nuts. But overall, how can you beat the value, in this economy, the price is right”.

Now without the AT&T service plan, the phone will cost you 300 dollars. You can read Ed’s column on usatoday.com. The new Smartphone many say may win over iPhone fans is about to take on Apple on its own turf. We’ve now learn the highly anticipated Palm Pre will sync up with iTunes allowing users to manage their music library and photos. That’s just one of the major features of the new phone that’s set to be released next week. There’s also word that Verizon will offer the Palm Pre in 6 months, but until then the only way to get one will be to sign up for a contract with Sprint.

For more information on all these stories, log on to the technology page of  hxen.net. Those are your ‘Tech Bytes’, I’m Jeremy Hubbard.