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Charles Wiles / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Shifting Google Gears to mobile — Ever use a mobile web application and suddenly lose your cell connection? That's happened to me many times. If you've shared my pain, you'll be excited to know that we've launched Google Gears for mobile, which lets users access Gears-enabled mobile web apps offline.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Silverlight Goes Mobile With Nokia — Nokia has signed up to use Microsoft's Silverlight platform for its S60 and S40 mobile devices as well as its Nokia Internet tablets, marking the first mobile win for the Redmond giant's rich media development framework.
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to take Silverlight offline eventually, says exec — There are a number of software projects that enable Web applications to run offline, including Adobe's AIR, Google Gears, and the Mozilla Foundation's Prism. What about Microsoft and its Silverlight browser plug-in?
Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:Zoho Writer Extends Mobile Support, Adds Offline Capability …
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IEBlog:
Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8 — We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we've posted previously. — Why Change? — Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles.
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Sanity prevails: IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode — In an impressive volte-face, Microsoft has decided that Internet Explorer 8 will default to being compliant with web standards after all, and will not, as previously announced, require web pages to explicitly opt in to conforming behavior.
Msantjer / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Gates on Yahoo, Google and the next president — Guest post from P-I reporter Joseph Tartakoff: — At his speech this morning to the thousands gathered for the SharePoint Conference at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took some questions …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GigaOm Launches Ostatic Resource For Open Source Community — GigaOm (Om Malik's blog network) just launched a new open source software focused blog called Ostatic. The goal, Malik said today in an interview, is to track news around the world's 150,000+ open source projects.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Back on the Beat: Introducing OStatic, the Open Source Blog — I have spent the past two months recuperating from my medical setback - reading, rebuilding my physical strength and of course, writing an occasional blog post or two. My doctors have given me permission to work — four hours a day …
Ina Fried / Webware.com:
Microsoft's telescope centers on Windows — REDMOND, Wash.—When Microsoft releases its WorldWide Telescope this spring, the program will be a Windows-only download. — Much of the astronomical community, however, uses Macs and other Unix-based hardware.
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Sean Ammirati / ReadWriteWeb:
What Stanford Learned Building Facebook Apps — Dr. BJ Fogg and Dave McClure taught a class last semester at Stanford on Building Facebook Applications. In 10 weeks, the 80 students had created 50+ applications and in total had over 20 Million installs - with 5 having more than 1 million users.
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Exclusive preview: Delicious Monster's Delicious Library 2.0 — Back in 2004, shortly before the release of Mac OS X Tiger, Delicious Library 1.0 arrived as a slick looking inventory cataloging application designed to manage listings of books, videos, albums and other media.
Claudine Ryan / ABC News:
Blogging boosts your social life: research — Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found. — The research, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne …
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Netvibes Ginger goes live, still no Web drive — The latest version of customizable start page Netvibes, nicknamed “Ginger” will be open to everyone as of Tuesday morning. We gave it a thorough look back in late January, and Rafe and I have been using it on a daily basis to keep up with various feeds and use it as a Widget engine.
The Steampunk Workshop:
Dave Veloz's Steampunk Remake: — A Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard for a Mac mini — There is nothing in the world that I like better then receiving pictures of things that people have been inspired to build by my projects. When I opened my mail and discovered these photos I squeed like teen on LJ!
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MacUser, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Infinite Loop, Gizmodo, Engadget, Macenstein, CrunchGear, Ubergizmo, Apple Gazette and Digg
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
10-K Watch: Getty, WPP, IAC, Valueclick, Akamai, Navteq, Media General — The world's going crazy with 10-K's...and we're making it easy for you. Our motto, just in case you didn't know: We kill ourselves, so you don't have to. — Some of the main ones below with some relevant points culled out:
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
AOL's new strategy: Quantity over quality? — Since its 2001 acquisition of Time Warner, AOL has struggled to maintain its brand on the Internet with the rise of first Yahoo and then Google. Now the company has a new strategy to get their traffic numbers up: build more sites.
