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Microsoft's Bing on Verizon: Crapware for mobile phones
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| The icon for Microsoft's Bing search
| engine has been showing up, unrequested,
| on the home screens of BlackBerry users on
| Verizon's network in recent days. In an
| era when people carefully decide what and
| what not to put on their phones, the move
| is angering many Verizon customers --
| particularly savvier users who treat as
| sacrosanct the contents and arrangement of
| their mobile home screens.
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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/12/verizon_blackberry_users_see_bing_as_uninvited_home_screen_guest.html
Verizon: Just as Bad as AT&T
http://www.pcworld.com/article/185668/verizon_att_iphone.html?tk=rss_news
Recent:
Verizon snuffs Google for Microsoft search
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| Verizon has unilaterally updated user Storm
| 2 BlackBerries and other smartphones so that
| their browser search boxes can only be used
| with Microsoft Bing.
|
| The move is part of the five-year search and
| advertising deal Verizon signed with
| Microsoft in January for a rumored $500m.
|
| [...]
|
| Naturally, such sites can still be queried
| via the browser proper. But countless users
| are up-in-arms over the switch. A discussion
| thread dedicated to the change at
| CrackBerry, a popular BlackBerry user site,
| is now 36 pages long.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/19/verizon_snuffs_google_for_bing/
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