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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Is the Best Browser For Web — For Now — If you buy a new Windows Vista PC, it comes with a decent built-in Web browser, Internet Explorer 7. If you buy a new Macintosh computer, it comes with a decent built-in Web browser, Safari 3.0. So why would you want or need a different Web browser?
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Christian Zibreg / TG Daily:Why Firefox 3 matters — Review - According to Mozilla …
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Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Gates-Ballmer Clash Shaped Microsoft's Coming Handover — One of the most successful business partnerships in history was coming unraveled. It was early 2000, and Bill Gates had relinquished the chief executive's job at Microsoft Corp. to Steve Ballmer — for the first time taking a back seat …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Drops Ability To Watch Video Directly In Search Results — Ionut posted something I have noticed for the past few weeks, Google has removed the ability to watch videos directly in the search results. — In the past, a search for starwars kid, as one example, returned a video with a plus sign that said “watch video.”
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Disney World in 3D in Google Earth — Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog has news that Disney World of Orlando, Florida, is now available in 3D in Google Earth. To view this, enter disney world in the Google Earth search box - you might want to download the latest version …
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InfoWorld:
Report: Verizon Wireless eyes Alltel purchase — Verizon Wireless is considering an acquisition of wireless provider Alltel in a deal that would be valued at about $27 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report late Wednesday. — Verizon and Alltel, if combined, would create a carrier with about 80 million subscribers.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About The Web — Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I'm going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it's my local paper and this is a local example. — There were severe storms in the Washington area today …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Flip v. My Cheap Canon Camera: Flip Loses Across The Board — The Flip Mino, the third version of the popular Flip video camera, launched today to a torrent of well orchestrated press coverage. — We've been a little harsh on the Flip in the past, so I was pleased when they reached …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update to address Adobe CS3 file corruption — As expected, Apple on Wednesday evening delivered to its developer community the first pre-release copies of its upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update, which repairs a critical flaw in saving files from Adobe's Creative Suite bundle.
Preston Gralla / PC World:
How to Get and Keep Windows XP After June 30 — Microsoft may be sunsetting XP, but you'll still be able to buy it on some new systems—and support isn't going away for several years. — Windows XP is dead ... long live Windows XP. You may have heard that as of June 30 …
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
U2 manager slams Internet providers — McGuinness likens ISPs to ‘shoplifters’ — U2 manager Paul McGuinness launched a blistering attack on the world's Internet providers Wednesday, accusing them of strangling the music industry. — Speaking at the Music Matters confab in Hong Kong …
Yahoo! Search Blog:
The Yahoo! Search Gallery is Open for Business — SearchMonkey is taking another step in its evolution with the public launch of the Yahoo! Search Gallery. Starting today, users and developers can visit the Search Gallery by clicking the “Customize” dropdown from the search results page.
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Why Apple Could Kill The Nintendo DS — BURLINGAME, CALIF - — There's only one company on earth that has come back from behind to wrest a multibillion-dollar market away from Sony, beat back a grasping Microsoft and delight tens of millions of customers around the world in the process.
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone 2.0 firmware details and information on second generation iPhone — We've all heard the rumors that the iPhone 2.0 firmware would be out at WWDC 08, but we have received some information that begs to differ. According to the information that we have, it will be released late June/early July.
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APC:
Up close with Dell's Eee PC killer … During a packed two day international media briefing at Dell's headquarters in Austin, Texas, the single product which attracted the most attention was the company's forthcoming mini-note. — We took the opportunity to very briefly get hands …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown Decodes Carl Icahn's Latest Letter to Yahoo (The Crazy Eddie Edition) — Break out the sedatives, because Carl Icahn is getting mighty tetchy with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the board of directors of the troubled Internet company! — In yet another letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock …
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