If Microsoft and Apple are conspiring to make Bing the default search engine on Apple's iPhone, it could be put a fly in the thick ointment that is Google's search engine and overall online dominance. That is, if you believe it. Do you believe it? If you do, then maybe you choose to believe hell is freezing over, as the BusinessWeek article that broke the news eloquently put it. You also recognize that Microsoft and Apple now view Google, not necessarily each other,

The Massachusetts Port Authority Board has voted to allow free WiFi for travelers at the Boston Logan International Airport. "One of the most frequently asked questions from our customers is: 'Why don't you have free WiFi at Logan?' said Thomas J. Kinton Jr., CEO & Executive Director of Massport . "Well, we are pleased to be able to now say 'We do!' " A secure WiFi system was installed through out the airport six years ago at a cost of several million dollars.

People who like to try new cell phones on a regular basis should brace themselves; this year, Motorola's going to do its best to make it rain Android devices. In an interview today, one exec committed to releasing something like two dozen smartphones based on the mobile operating system. Spiros Nikolakopoulos, Vice President of Mobile Devices in charge of Asian and international retail distribution, told Damian Koh , "There will be between 20 and 30 smartphones globally and,

eBay has reported its financial results for the fourth quarter, and with revenue for the quarter at $2.4 billion, up 16% from the same period in 2008. That includes revenue of $112.0 million from Skype for the period that eBay fully owned it. Excluding Skype from the fourth quarter of 2008 and the fourth quarter of 2009, revenue growth would have been 19%. eBay says the year-over-year increase was due primarily to excellent growth in PayPal and StubHub,

Google AdWords has just rolled out a new targeting options for mobile ads .  If you're an AdWords publisher running ads on iPhones and other mobile devices with full internet browsers, this new feature will let you target specific mobile devices or carriers instead of targetting all of them. This new feature will be most useful if you're running ads that contains specific messages pertaining to specific devices or carriers.

Last summer it was discovered that Google was testing breadcrumbs in search results (breadcrumbs being the hierarchical display commonly used in site navigation. For example: Home Page>Product Page>Product A Page). Then in mid-November, Google announced that it was rolling out the use of breadcrumbs in search results on a global basis. Do your site's breadcrumbs show up in Google's results? Comment here . The company said they would only be used in place of some URLs,

Microsoft has just announced that its Bing Maps service is finally leaving the beta state. And as it prepares to become a full-pledged Microsoft geo-mapping service, Bing has brought some new stuff with it. These new features aims to give users better experience while using Bing Maps. Perhaps equal to how good Google Maps is or even better?

If you're interested in new trends in advertising, you may be interested in the possibility that you will be seeing trucks driving around playing full HD videos. Hopefully you won't be so interested that you stop paying attention to the road. Flick Studio is making these trucks with the hopes that companies will be interested in purchasing them for their own advertising purposes. The idea comes from trucks that are already out there, which feature rolling ads.

Are we all back from the holidays yet? For some on the maps team, the holidays biggest gift was getting to work on updating the Bing Maps experience based on what you told us you wanted to see. Why are things in beta anyway? Its so we can try new experiences, hear what you like and dont like and understand what is hard for you all to use and how we can make it easier. Fast forward six weeks: were ready to take the wipe that beta clean off the map. Get it? Anyone?

Image by SESConferenceSeries via Flickr Back on January 12, 2010, Avinash Kaushik, co-founder of Market Motive Inc. and best-selling author of Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, was the featured presenter on an SES Webcast about Analytics 2010 - Driving the data! Now, I did happen to mention in a blog post about the event that Kaushik would be giving out six free copies of his newest book, " Web Analytics 2.0 ,