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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
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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.
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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Larry / Ma.gnolia.com:
Ma.gnolia Blog: The Open Road Ahead — Today at Gnomedex in Seattle, we're kicking off a project bigger than any we've taken on since starting Ma.gnolia. It's brighter than a snazzy feature, and more than a social bookmarking service. It's going to define where Ma.gnolia is heading …
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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iHologram looks to provide minutes of extreme coolness — I'm not sure what you are supposed to do with this, but I know I want it. — iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo. — Now, assuming this is not a very well-made hoax, iHologram by David O'Reilly is one of the coolest useless apps I have seen.
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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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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.
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.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google making SSL changes, other sites quiet — A security researcher has been in discussions with Google on an exploit he plans to release that would allow a hacker to easily intercept someone's communications with supposedly secure Web sites over an unsecured Wi-Fi network, but other sites …
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.
Mark Evans:
Google's Swings and Misses — The Economist has an article looking at how Lively, Google's attempt to establish a foothold in the virtual world market, has flopped. — To be fair, it's far too early to determine whether Lively is a failure given it was only launched last month …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Red Hat, Fedora servers compromised — Red Hat warned on Friday that a network attack compromised some servers last week that are involved with both its commercially supported and free versions of Linux. — The breaches involved Red Hat Linux Enterprise servers and those from its community-supported Fedora project that it sponsors.
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