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Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 3 Release Candidate now available for download — Please note: The Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
FIREFOX 3 RELEASE CANDIDATE 1 RELEASED Mozilla pushed out the first release candidate of Firefox 3 early this evening, so if you're already field testing Firefox 3, now's the time to go to Help -> Check for Updates to download the latest and greatest build. If you're wondering what to expect, check out the RC1 release notes.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla launches Firefox 3.0 RC1 early — Beats ‘late May’ schedule, unveils first release candidate for major upgrade — Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. on Friday rolled out the release candidate for Firefox 3.0, bringing the open-source browser one step closer to its first major overhaul in nearly 19 months.
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Spielberg pops up on Seesmic — Seesmic, the video discussion site, has gone wild this morning as Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, George Lucas and more big names from Indiana Jones 4 join a Q&A session on the site. — It's a simple enough idea but incredibly exciting …
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Glass Jaw — Facebook finally has a real problem to deal with - an exceptionally rational and well-thought-out strategy by Google that puts the leading social media cloud in the path of a wave of angry users. The only thing Facebook has going for it is that said users don't yet know they're angry.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Mike Arrington is Right, Facebook is Wrong — Mike Arrington and I had a sometimes violent disagreement on today's Gillmor Gang. — The reason we were arguing? Because we both were arguing different things. — Mike Arrington was arguing that Facebook was in the wrong …
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
A business model for Twitter: Pay up — The Web spirit of “build an audience and figure out the business model later” is a great filter. It allows products and services into the wild without barriers or the need to sell advertisers on an unproven concept.
Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen:
11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation — Over five years ago I posted Tips for a Successful MSFT Presentation. Yesterday I watched the video of my Mix Presentation all the way through. It's always very painful to hear one's own voice but it's even worse to watch yourself.
discussions.europe.nokia.com:
Nokia N95 US version (also known as N95-3) — Nokia is aware of consumers' demand for a new software release, and our development teams are working to produce the new software as soon as possible. We estimate that the new software should be available early June.
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Josh / Redeye VC:
The “Atomization of Conversation” — Last week I was speaking with Lawrence Hooper of Loladex and he used a phrase that's been sticking in my head. When I asked him whether people would be willing to solicit their friends to make a local recommendations via his Facebook application …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Best Buy (BBY) Buying Netflix (NFLX) For $44? — A reader says there was chatter to that effect this afternoon, as Netflix (NFLX) pushed 6% higher on high volume. — Would this make sense? Only if Best Buy (BBY) has been persuaded that the Blockbuster (BBI) - Circuit City (CCI) deal makes sense, which we certainly haven't.
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Keith Golden / Official Google Maps API Blog:
Love My Maps? Use its Line and Shape Editing in your API Apps! — When we launched the map editing tools in Google Maps, the reaction of developers was “This is cool, but how can I use it on my own site?” As someone who was originally drawn to Google in part because of the Maps API …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Yahoo seeks to conceal parts of shareholder suit — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Micrsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising shareholder questions over the motives for the secrecy.
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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers — TOKYO — Japan is running out of engineers. — After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related fields. — Universities call it “rikei banare,” or “flight from science.”
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
HP to launch fall line of teen PC products — PALO ALTO, Calif.—Hewlett-Packard wants to get hip to teens. — At an event here this week focused on teenagers and technology, Ameer Karim, director of HP's future and innovations group for consumer PCs, said that it plans to introduce …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Full-Screen Multitouch Mac OS X Is Here — It's not from Apple, but it gives a pretty good idea of what to expect from them—specially knowing that only one guy—Christian Moore—got this system running at full speed on a simple Intel-based MacBook. His Lux free open framework enables true …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica — Condé Nast has acquired popular technology blog Ars Technica (ranked #5 all time on the BloggerBoard), we've confirmed. The site will become part of Wired Digital (which in turn is under CondéNet, run by Sarah Chubb).
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