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Search the Web on your iPhone with nothing more than your voice using Vlingo, a new app that also throws in voice-activated calling, maps search, and Twitter updates too.

Google has launched an effort it calls SearchWiki, which allows folks to customize searches and move results.

An example: Say you disagree with a ranking of a result. You can move it up. You can also add notes to the result.

And you can also remove results.

Get quick Google GrandCentral call hook-ups on your Mac with a small and simple Mac application called Vocito.

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday launched its first multi-touch notebook for consumers. The TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC was modeled after HP’s desktop version of the same name (statement, Techmeme).

The move ups the ante in the notebook race–assuming you think multi-touch is important.

Yahoo’s performance seems spotty this morning. I’m getting hang-ups with Yahoo Finance, Fantasy Sports and Mail.

The hang-up appears to be the connection to Akamai (right). I’m still investigating, but here’s what I’m seeing.

Every other site seems to work just fine. Despite all of Yahoo’s corporate troubles I still rely heavily on its services.

Remember that quaint saying that start-ups should think about profits? Well, it apparently remains a quaint idea in the eyes of some of the leading lights in the Web 2.0 ecosystem.

Join Charles Cooper and Rafe Needleman on today's CNET News Daily Debrief.

After two intense years of campaign ups and downs for both major U.S. political parties, the nation has finally settled on a president.

Although initially, Obama's victory brings celebrations for supporters, experts say the let-down that voters of each side may feel after the campaign is akin to postpartum depression.

A public-private partnership worked for the semiconductor industry. With a little creativity, it could work for tech start-ups as well.

The 3rd annual Clean Tech Open Awards Gala honors the six winners who showed the most promise to launch a viable, clean energy solution.

Insurance firms see a lucrative market opening up to sell policies to NHS patients after the decision to lift the top-ups ban.