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5:45 PM ET, September 2, 2008

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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
First Test of Google's New Browser  —  Google has introduced a new Web browser, called Chrome, aimed at wresting dominance of the browser market from Microsoft's Internet Explorer.  The move takes the Google-Microsoft rivalry to a whole new level.  If Google succeeds, it will be a big deal …
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Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS:
Chrome - first impressions  —  I spent an hour this afternoon at Google's London HQ getting a first look at its new browser, Chrome.  So here are a few hurried first impressions...  The first thing you see when you open the browser is a clutch of snapshots of some of your favourite websites, garnered from your search history.
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Who cares about Chrome.  IE6 Has 25% Market Share  —  At my company, Kloudshare, a big part of what we are developing involves pushing boundaries of what browsers are expected to do.  Generally speaking this is the case industry wide as the web browser is becoming more and more a real application delivery system.
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Is there anything original in Google Chrome?  —  Paul Thurrott's coverage of the Google Chrome leak/announcement ends with the remark that “what we've really got here is an example of Google pulling a Microsoft: Creating an unnecessary me-too product that they can use for product tie-ins.
Christina Clark / Download Squad:
Google Chrome omni bar - What is it?  —  Don't have Google Chrome yet?  Well, get with the program already!  So far, the feature I like the best is the omni bar.  In the webcast of the Chrome announcement today, developers called it the “psychic bar.”  I don't know if I'd go quite that far, but it is cool.
Victor Agreda, Jr / Download Squad:
Google Chrome in pictures  —  Here's a gallery of the highlights: basic pages, Options, menus, and a few Google services all running smoothly.  The key: speed.  We haven't seen speeds like these... ever!  Be sure to check out Jason's full review in the post below this one.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
Google Chrome - Google's new browser - First Look
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Google's Browser Launches; And Gmail's Fast
Discussion: Matt Cutts and Technologizer
Kevin Maney / Portfolio.com:
Chrome? Sounds Like a New Fragrance for Men
Discussion: Clickety Clack
Tom Krazit / CNET News - Apple:
Apple makes September 9 iPod event official  —  A trademark Apple special event will be held next week in San Francisco, and it looks like new iPods.  —  (Credit: Apple)  —  Updated 10:30 a.m. PDT after having a chance to catch my breath.  —  Apple has sent out invitations …
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Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Apple's “Rock” event expected to be product launch
Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Apple's 'Let's Rock' Event Fuels New IPod Speculation
Discussion: Brier Dudley's blog
Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces  —  Google wants to help you put a name to that face.  —  With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects.
Vishesh Kumar / Wall Street Journal:
Price War Erupts For High-Speed Internet Service  —  The battle between cable and phone companies to sign up new customers for high-speed Internet service is heating up, creating fresh opportunities for consumers to cut their bills.  —  Verizon Communications Inc., which last quarter became …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Broadband price war brews
Discussion: PC World
Randall Kennedy / Enterprise Desktop:
IE 8 consumes more RAM than Windows XP  —  exo.performance.network is declaring IE 8 to the be one seriously bloated piece of software.  Not only is it “fatter” than IE 7, it's also more resource-intensive
Discussion: TechSpot
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exo.blog:
Internet Explorer 8: Over 2x “Fatter” than Firefox
Mykbibby / Mac Soda:
Is Steve Jobs Dying?  And Is Fake Steve Resurrecting?  —  I have been exchanging emails with Dan Lyons, the man behind Fake Steve, and he revealed some scary news.  I emailed him to tell him that Steve Jobs isn't dying like some believe, and that according to the New York Times, he's sick …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple iPhone: 8 million and counting  —  On Saturday, Aug. 30, the daughters of “BillH” bought an iPhone at an AT&T store in Sunnyvale, Calif. The next day, their father, an Apple investor from Minneapolis, reported on The Mac Observer's Apple Finance Board (AFB) that the so-called IMEI number …
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch:
Hulu Launches Fall Lineup, Premieres Before TV Broadcast  —  Hulu on Tuesday announced that it has launched its Fall Premiere Lineup, which over the next seven weeks, will be the place to find season premieres of Prison Break, Bones, House, Heroes, The Office and 30 Rock.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ads For Twits On Twitter (TwittAd Launches)  —  Do you have 53 followers on Twitter?  Shouldn't you be making money off of them somehow, selling their attention to the highest bidder?  Well, now you can with TwittAd.  You list how many followers you have and for how much you are willing …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin Leaked  —  A few sources have alerted me to a project that Facebook has been working on: integrating Facebook Connect directly with Wordpress.  For all you developers that also thought that building a Facebook Connect plugin would be brilliant idea, you might want to stop development.
 
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Peter Cohen / PC World:
AT&T USBConnect Mercury Connects Mac Laptops to 3G
The Official Google Blog:
Denver recap and St. Paul update
Discussion: WebProNews
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
iPhone Challenges Symbian, but Symbian Fights Back
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Washington State court deals a blow to one-sided EULAs
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Ulysses King / Kyte Blog:
New features on the Kyte Platform!
Chris Kanaracus / InfoWorld:
Oracle buys ClearApp for SOA management
Discussion: Negative Approach
PitchEngine:
Shure Introduces SE102MPA Sound Isolating™ Stereo Headset
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Michael Wolff / Vanity Fair:
Tuesdays with Rupert  —  Since buying The Wall Street Journal …
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John Fontana / Network World:
10 open source companies to watch
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry OS 4.5 hitting mid-September for AT&T users
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Twintro: Twitter's ‘blind dating’ service
Discussion: The Web Life and Valleywag
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Credit Card Companies Gagged Mythbusters Over RFID Vulnerabilities?
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Google white space petition: 13,000 signatures and counting
John Leyden / The Register:
Zombie network explosion
Discussion: DSLreports
Taylor Buley / Forbes:
A Snappy Way To Make Money In Stock
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