If you have any doubt that we're living in an alternate universe, here are two pieces of evidence for you: Massachusetts has a Republican Senator, and Microsoft and Apple are in talks to form a strategic partnership to make Bing the default search engine for the iPhone.

BusinessWeek reports that Microsoft and Google have been in talks for weeks about Bing replacing Google as the iPhone's default search engine. There's even a chance that Bing will become the default search engine on Safari on the Mac.

This potential partnership is clearly based on the Arab proverb, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Microsoft for years has been locked in battle with Google, and with the release of Google's NexusOne, Google is taking on Apple as well.

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