iPhone owners may get a taste of Microsoft on their phones shortly. According to a BusinessWeek report, Apple has been talking with Microsoft about implementing Bing as the default search option on the iPhone instead of Google.

Google's enterprise team Dec. 10 said it now surfaces tweets next to search results in the Google Search Appliance (GSA). Cyrus Mistry, product manager for Google's Enterprise Search team, said even corporate workers want social information in their knowledge work diet. Twitter results will appear to the right of the corporate search results, sitting right above related results, which GSA culls from the core Web search on Google.com.

Today, on the 150th anniversary of a book that changed the world – the first edition of On the Origin of Species was published on 24 November 1859 – an appeal is being launched to recover a priceless notebook, probably stolen more than 30 years ago, in which Charles Darwin jotted down observations which would shape the rest of his life.