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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw — Google's shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. — Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Speed test: Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari — Google introduced Chrome in part because it wants faster browsing and the richer Web applications that speed will unlock. So how does Chrome actually stack up? — Google's Chrome overpowers the other browsers on the five subtests …
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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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Firefox counters Google's browser speed test — Mozilla fought back on Wednesday with some performance results to show a forthcoming version of Firefox outpacing Google's new Web browser, Chrome. — During a launch event Tuesday, Google was eager to toot its horn about Chrome's performance …
Brendan / Brendan's Roadmap Updates:
TraceMonkey Update — We have been busy, mostly fixing bugs for stability, but also winning a bit more performance, since TraceMonkey landed on mozilla-central, from which Firefox 3.1 alpha-stage nightly builds are built. Tonight's builds include a fix for the bug that ilooped a SunSpider test …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:Hands-on with Chrome: Google's browser shines (mostly)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:GetClicky Analytics Service Tracking 2% Google Chrome Usage
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Want On The Digg Home Page? That'll Be $1,200. — InvespBlog has published what it claims is an interview with a top Digg user - someone who has a 34% success ratio in getting submitted stories to the home page of Digg. The Digg user isn't named - he or she says “I have a reputation to withhold” (we know what they meant).
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Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:
Hell freezes over, new DirecTV HD TiVo on the way — We had to pinch ourselves and check to see if it was April 1st, because after three years of hearing TiVo fans complain that DirecTV killed off the HD DirecTV TiVo on its move to MPEG4, the satellite company has finally listened.
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John Timmer / Ars Technica:
TiVo fans rejoice: HD, MPEG-4 TiVo returning to DirecTV — Ever since DirecTV decided to part ways with TiVo and roll its own DVR, fans of the pioneering TiVo have fervently hoped that the two service providers would reunite. While the companies have played nicely with one another since the split …
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Justin Scheck / Wall Street Journal:
Dell to Offer ‘Netbook’ — Dell Inc. will soon introduce a mininotebook computer, people familiar with the matter said, entering into a fast-growing market for inexpensive, no-frills portables that offer Internet capabilities at low prices. — One person familiar with the matter …
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Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:Dell Set To Unveil Mini-Notebook This Week
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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Sony Unveils Blu-Ray Fall Lineup — TOKYO — Sony Corp. showed its fall lineup of Blu-ray disc players and recorders, as it prepares for its first holiday season after winning the next-generation format battle against HD DVD. — The Japanese consumer electronics maker said it was making available …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:A Sony Blu-ray Player Under Every Tree This Christmas? Not At $400
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Patrick White / Globe and Mail:
Service call gone awry leads to playwright's arrest — It's a story as old as the Internet. — You fire up your Web browser and all you get is some cryptic error message. — Try as you might, jiggling wires, pulling plugs and tossing keyboards, the Internet is down. No Web. No e-mail.
Nokia:
Highly anticipated Nokia N96 begins shipping — The Nokia N96 offers the most personalized mobile internet experience to date — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the availability of the much anticipated Nokia N96, its flagship multimedia computer in the iconic Nokia Nseries range.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple, AT&T sued for over-saturating 3G network with iPhones — A San Diego-based lawsuit filed late last week alleges that Apple and its carrier partner AT&T have knowingly oversold iPhone 3G, promising fast speeds only to see a glut of customers bog down the network with devices that themselves are flawed.
Rachel Beckman / Washington Post:
Facebook Ads Target You Where It Hurts — Maybe it's my age, my sex or the fact that it knew I was engaged, but the site decided I was a gal who needed to drop a few pounds. And it wasn't shy about its tactics. — This was not a close friend taking me aside, telling me in gentle tones …
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
‘Happy Birthday to GNU’ marks 25 years — The Free Software Foundation has released Happy Birthday to GNU to celebrate the silver anniversary of the operating system. — The film, presented by actor/comedian Stephen Fry, offers a basic history of GNU's Not Unix (GNU).
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