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Apple:
Apple Announces Safari 4—The World's Fastest & Most Innovative Browser — New Nitro Engine Runs JavaScript More Than Four Times Faster — Apple® today announced the public beta of Safari® 4, the world's fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:Apple releases public beta of Safari 4 browser
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Acacio Cruz / The Official Google Blog:
Update on Gmail — The Gmail outage that affected many consumers and Google Apps users worldwide is now over. Users should find that they're able to access their email now without any further problems. — Before you can access your Gmail, you may be asked to fill in what's called …
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Computerworld, Technologizer, The Technology Chronicles, ReadWriteWeb, Communications … and TECH.BLORGE.com, Thanks:blogfisher
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Ballmer: Office 14 not this year — During his annual “Strategic Update” briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 won't be shipping in 2009. — “Office 14 will not be this year,” Ballmer told analysts. — Microsoft officials have been careful …
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Computerworld, Technologizer, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, Microsoft Pri0, The Microsoft Blog and Electronista
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Apple launches a new iTunes Pass feature for groupies — Is there an artist you love? I mean really love, as in you'll buy anything they do before you have any idea what it is? A lot of people probably do, and for them, Apple has a new feature on iTunes called “iTunes Pass.”
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Announces Pricing for App Engine: Allows Developers to Scale Beyond Free Quotas — Google today finally announced its pricing plans for its App Engine service. Google's App Engine allows developers to run their web applications on Google's infrastructure and, until today, was only available in a free, but restricted, version.
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Brett Slatkin / Google App Engine Blog:New! Grow your app beyond the free quotas!
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Reality Sinks in at Online Advertising Confab — Recession Could Lead to Business Failures, Irrational Risks — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — For five years online was advertising's growth business, but 2008 delivered a wake-up call: Online advertising isn't immune to the recession, and it's only just begun.
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Ad Traders / AdExchanger.com:
Enemy of the State: The IAB — Enough. — The unending criticism from ad industry leadership of ad exchanges, networks and their technology is an abomination. — Cut to a scene from the movie, “Network” with Yahoo!'s Carol Bartz poised in the window instead of Peter Finch.
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
WSJ Conference Organizer's Wife Secretly Running Google — Megan Smith, a Google executive little known outside Silicon Valley, is taking a high-profile role running the search engine's in-house charity. She's part of a power couple whose louder half is AllThingsD blogger Kara Swisher.
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Official google.org Blog:
The Next Chapter for Google.org — When Larry and Sergey laid out their vision for Google.org, they hoped that this “experiment in active philanthropy” would one day have an even greater impact on the world than Google itself. They committed resources from Google's profits …
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Search Engine Land, Forbes, Digits, Search Engine Watch, New York Times, Network World and BuzzMachine
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (968272) — Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file.
Dong Ngo / CNET News:
Marvell makes ultrasmall wall plug computer — You might have heard or even used one of those Powerline network adapters, such as the one made by Netgear that plug directly into the wall. Now think of a similar device with the exception that it is an entire computer.
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Gizmodo, Computerworld, GMSV, Fast Company, Engadget, Crave, MAKE Magazine and Electronista
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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Facebook risks ‘infantilising’ the mind — Greenfield warns social networking sites are changing children's brains, resulting in selfish and attention deficient young people — Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans …
comScore:
Americans' Online Search Behavior Points to Significant Increase in Personal Financial Turmoil — Searches Using Term ‘Unemployment’ in December Triples versus Year Ago — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an analysis of changes …
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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:Googling “Unemployment” — Searches of economy-related terms like …
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Arn / MacRumors:
DoubleTwist Beta for Mac Offers Easy Media Browsing and Sharing — Startup company doubleTwist has launched a public beta of their new universal media application for the Mac today. Their vision for the product is “a single, streamlined interface that connects to any device, media source or network.”
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time — Netbooks prove that we finally know what PCs are actually for. Which is to say, not all that much. — Mary Lou Jepsen didn't set out to invent the netbook and turn the computer industry upside down. She was just trying to create a supercheap laptop.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Steve Jobs is 54 — Tuesday, Feb. 24, is Steve Jobs' birthday. — He turns 54. — To celebrate this very personal milestone, we thought we'd re-post what may be the most personal public speech this intensely private man has ever made: his 2005 commencement address to the Stanford University class of 2005.
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Natasha Lomas / silicon.com:
“Android is not open. It's a marketing label” — Google, Symbian get claws out in ‘open’ cat fight — If you thought the rise of open OS platforms would herald a new era of peace and harmony in the mobile industry you'd be sadly mistaken, as rival players in the space Google and the Symbian Foundation …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
InstantAction enables 3-D games in web browsers — InstantAction is announcing today the formal launch of its site that lets gamers play 3-D games in a web browser. — The site will have nine games that are available for free at the outset, with a half-dozen more games coming soon.
iDefense Public Vulnerability Disclosures:
Adobe Flash Player Invalid Object Reference Vulnerability — I. BACKGROUND — Adobe Flash Player is a very popular web browser plugin. It is available for multiple web browsers and platforms, including Windows, Linux and MacOS. Flash Player enables web browsers to display rich multimedia content …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Trial Day 7: Screenshots for Evidence — Today's scheduled witnesses are Magnus Mårtensson, a lawyer for the IFPI, Anders Nilsson of Antipiratbyrån and John Stéenmark. — Prosecutor Håkan Roswall begins by saying that Tobias Andersson from Piratbyrån …
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
New NVIDIA-based iMacs Imminent? More Hints. — Over the past week, there have been an increasing number hints that the long-awaited iMac revisions are indeed imminent. Resellers have had low stocks of iMacs and educational Apple sales reps have been authorized to give special pricing on the current iMacs.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Nokia To Staff: Hey, Who Wants To Quit? — Nokia (NOK) this morning said that it offering employees a “voluntary resignation package” in an effort reduce its staff by 1,000 people. The company also said it “encourages” workers to take time off instead of cashing in days off for extra pay.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Bad News for OpenID: People Still Using Same Password Everywhere — A new survey from Gartner Research delivers some bad news regarding our online security practices: two-thirds of U.S. consumers use the same one or two passwords for all the websites they access. And they like it that way.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone App Prices Tanking — Apple (AAPL) is famous for keeping its gadget pricing steady. But the iPhone app store is a much different market: App developers have cut prices significantly in the last few months. And the market for $10 premium apps seems to have evaporated.
