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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost — Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) …
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The Mozilla Blog:
WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOUR BROWSER IS 7 TIMES FASTER? — Andreas Gal, Brendan Eich, Dave Anderson, Mike Shaver, and a whole host of other super-smart folks at Mozilla have been working hard to bring a Trace-tree based Just-in-time compiler to Firefox. I was a little curious about what sort …
Brendan / Brendan's Roadmap Updates:
TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed — I'm extremely pleased to announce the launch of TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 that uses a new kind of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler to boost JS performance by an order of magnitude or more. — Results
shaver:
the birth of a faster monkey — Over the past year, JavaScript performance on the web has undergone a striking revolution. Virtually every browser has improved its engine to produce significant gains in execution speed; Firefox is about 3 times faster than Firefox 2 in various JavaScript benchmarks, for example.
Kevin Rose:
New iPods Coming Very Soon — Latest rumors: — Revamp of entire iPod line. — Small cosmetic changes to Touch, Nano to see significant redesign (see pic below). — iPods to see fairly large price drops to distance itself from the $199 iPhone. — iPod touch 2.1 software, iPhone to get update very soon after.
Arn / MacRumors iPhone Blog:
iHologram Looks Remarkable, but Is it Real? — Macenstein points us to an interesting video which claims to create a “holographic” effect on the iPhone by performing real time adjustments to the image based on rotation: … Our only confusion is its apparent ability to detect rotational information …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source - Will it Matter? — Social bookmarking: the awkward genius hopes you'll take its ideas to parties for it. — Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, announced today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle that the company …
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source; Wants to be the WordPress of Social Bookmarking
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Ma.gnolia.com, HorsePigCow, OStatic blogs, Computerworld, The Inquisitr and David Risley
Aaron Swartz / Raw Thought:
How To Launch Software — 37signals recommends that software developers pursue what they call the Hollywood Launch. They don't give any argument for this method, except perhaps the title (as if Hollywood was a business you should try to imitate?) — I guess the idea is that you're supposed to do it since 37signals says to.
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Economist:
If you build it... Lively, Google's virtual world, has been a flop — IT SOUNDED like a brilliant idea. Google, the internet giant, would bring 3-D virtual worlds to the masses by making them accessible through a web browser. Millions of people log into virtual worlds such as World …
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
A Comprehensive List of Ultraportables, Netbooks, Mini-Notebooks, Or Whatever You Call Them — When the Asus Eee came out, the market was simple. There was only one tiny, cheap laptop so you knew which one was for you. That was less than a year ago, but things move quickly in the tech world.
Jim Puzzanghera / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Twitterers eagerly await Obama VP decision so they can pass it on — What good is it being the first to know something important if you can't be the first to tell someone else? — With that in mind, Twitter users have been tweeting away with anticipation today of Barack Obama's choice of a running mate.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Who should be USA's CTO? — Today I visited Larry Lessig. He's the founder of Creative Commons. A professor of law at Stanford University. And does many other things. — He is one of those guys who is just interesting to talk to. Why? Whip smart and has a view of things that very few other people have.
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redhat.com:
OpenSSH blacklist script — Last week Red Hat detected an intrusion on certain of its computer systems and took immediate action. While the investigation into the intrusion is on-going, our initial focus was to review and test the distribution channel we use with our customers, Red Hat Network …
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Matt Richtel / Bits:
Netbook Prices Are Now Falling — Personal computer maker Acer said Friday morning it is cutting the price of its Aspire “netbook” to $349 from $399. It's cutting the price of another netbook, the Linpus Linux Lite, to $329 from $379. — None too soon.
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
MetaRAM now pumping 288GB of memory into Intel boxes — Super-charging memory shop MetaRAM has started talking up its beefy DDR3 modules. — MetaRAM's top customer Hynix has already taken delivery of the DDR3 MetaSDRAM, which allows server customers to pack far more memory inside their standard systems.
Steven Schwankert / Network World:
China blocks Apple's iTunes, Amazon over Tibet songs — Chinese authorities appear to have blocked access to Apple's U.S. iTunes Music Store, following the release of the 20-song “Songs for Tibet - The Art of Peace” collection Wednesday. — Users in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen confirmed …
