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Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
jQuery and Microsoft — jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. — A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) …
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John Resig / jQuery Blog:
jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia — We have two pieces of fantastic, albeit serendipitous, news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development …
Scott / Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen:jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio
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Infinite Abyss:
Potential new TiVo interface — I got an invitation to take a survey on consumer electronics yesterday. I went to take it this morning and found that the survey was sponsored by TiVo which definitely got me interested. As it went on the survey showed videos and screenshots …
Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
Letting Our Fingers Do the Talking — In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent text messages more than they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the average subscriber's volume of text messages has shot upward by 64 percent …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around. — The iPhone may be the only game in town for serious mobile Web developers right now, but that won't last long. Next year, the iPhone will see some serious competition from Google's Android platform.
Alistair Croll / GigaOM:
The Perfect Apple for the Living Room — Apple's bland launch of a thinner Nano left the Mac faithful craving more. Now rumors are flying around the Net about a new device, with Apple retailers being asked to return their existing Apple TVs by Sept. 30 and mysterious placeholder SKUs showing up in Futureshop's inventory system.
Christopher Null:
GPS on your windshield re-legalized in California — Now that Governor Schwarzenegger is signing a few bills into law before he legally has to decide on them one way or the other (that deadline arrives on Tuesday), he's turned his attention to one issue of truly dire importance …
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
This Just In: New Verizon BlackBerry Storm Pics! — This sleek desktop charging pod will hold your Blackberry firmly in place and lights up to let you know it's charging. The unique and stylish chrome design will accent your BlackBerry Curve 8320, Curve 8310, or Curve 8300 while it charges it quickly and efficiently!
Anita Huslin / Washington Post:
Iridium to Get $500 Million Cash Infusion — When Motorola's $6 billion global satellite phone system, Iridium, went belly-up eight years ago, few saw it as anything more than a whopper of a waste of good technology on the wrong application. — A small group of investors eventually rescued Iridium …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Hands on: SkyFire browser brings Gecko to Windows Mobile — The SkyFire mobile browser has launched its first public beta release and is inviting users to take it for a spin on Windows Mobile devices. SkyFire aims to bring a desktop-like browsing experience to the handheld world with full support …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Bucket Tests User-Defined Blurb Length In Search Results — Google seems to be bucket testing a feature that allows users to specify how detailed the summary blurbs in their search results will be. In an ongoing discussion here, one user comments that the three available options are Small …
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone heading to EVDO/Verizon for 2009? — We've fielded a couple of tips (some more sketchy than others) about EVDO iPhones floating around Cupertino in the past, but today's tipster seems a little bit more sure of himself. Besides having some Verizon insider credentials, he seems to know way too much about Verizon-Apple politics.
