Hope you all had a pleasant weekend! I've got a long vacation headed my way for the rest of this week and all next week, so I hope you enjoy a few reviews instead of stale content! But, before I get those up later this week, here are some headlines to get you through this beautiful Monday ...

Bing has Google running scared. Who knew losing 5% of market share would have such a big effect on the search giant?

Oh God save the queen ... from becoming another twit. Yes folks, it's official, Queen Elizabeth II has her own Twitter account.

Microsoft if offering a look into the new Office product made for the cloud.

Screeech. Wait, what's the cloud? When someone refers to the 'cloud' as being a real place on the internet, they are referring to the idea that normal desktop things like Outlook and your IM -- basically anything that lives on your desktop right now -- would no longer live on your desktop. Confused? It's not a hard concept to understand once you get past the idea that nothing will really be yours in the physical sense, only the digital sense. You won't buy and install software or download upgrades -- all of this stuff lives on the internet, and you sigh on to access it.

Google has been doing this for years ... I'm a big fan of the Microsoft program known as Mesh, which allows me to upload and change documents in a single, central location. Then I don't have to email it to myself or use a USB to transfer it from machine to machine. As long as I have an internet connection, I can get the very latest updates I've made to a document anywhere. It's actually a very cool program.

Anyways, the idea of cloud computing is gaining in popularity as much as those little netbooks are -- mostly because the two kind-of go hand-in-hand. The netbooks don't have enough memory to hold, well, anything, but if all your stuff is located online on your cloud desktop, then they are perfect!