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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
First Test of Google's New Browser — Google has introduced a new Web browser, called Chrome, aimed at wresting dominance of the browser market from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The move takes the Google-Microsoft rivalry to a whole new level. If Google succeeds, it will be a big deal …
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Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS:
Chrome - first impressions — I spent an hour this afternoon at Google's London HQ getting a first look at its new browser, Chrome. So here are a few hurried first impressions... The first thing you see when you open the browser is a clutch of snapshots of some of your favourite websites, garnered from your search history.
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Preventing paranoia: when does Google Chrome talk to Google.com? — For better or worse, my blog is popular with the Google conspiracy-theorist demographic. I knew that as soon as Google Chrome launched, some readers would ask tough questions about privacy and how/when Google Chrome communicates with google.com.
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Who cares about Chrome. IE6 Has 25% Market Share — At my company, Kloudshare, a big part of what we are developing involves pushing boundaries of what browsers are expected to do. Generally speaking this is the case industry wide as the web browser is becoming more and more a real application delivery system.
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Is there anything original in Google Chrome? — Paul Thurrott's coverage of the Google Chrome leak/announcement ends with the remark that “what we've really got here is an example of Google pulling a Microsoft: Creating an unnecessary me-too product that they can use for product tie-ins.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Searching With Google Chrome & Omnibox — Now that Google Chrome is live, I spent some time looking at the search features within it, especially to see — as I did recently with Internet Explorer 8 — whether Google was going to try to stack the deck in its own favor. Like Microsoft, Google's playing it straight.
Tom Krazit / CNET News - Apple:
Apple makes September 9 iPod event official — A trademark Apple special event will be held next week in San Francisco, and it looks like new iPods. — (Credit: Apple) — Updated 10:30 a.m. PDT after having a chance to catch my breath. — Apple has sent out invitations …
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Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:Apple's 'Let's Rock' Event Fuels New IPod Speculation
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Brier Dudley's blog
Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces — Google wants to help you put a name to that face. — With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects.
Randall Kennedy / Enterprise Desktop:
IE 8 consumes more RAM than Windows XP — exo.performance.network is declaring IE 8 to the be one seriously bloated piece of software. Not only is it “fatter” than IE 7, it's also more resource-intensive
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Mykbibby / Mac Soda:
Is Steve Jobs Dying? And Is Fake Steve Resurrecting? — I have been exchanging emails with Dan Lyons, the man behind Fake Steve, and he revealed some scary news. I emailed him to tell him that Steve Jobs isn't dying like some believe, and that according to the New York Times, he's sick …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple iPhone: 8 million and counting — On Saturday, Aug. 30, the daughters of “BillH” bought an iPhone at an AT&T store in Sunnyvale, Calif. The next day, their father, an Apple investor from Minneapolis, reported on The Mac Observer's Apple Finance Board (AFB) that the so-called IMEI number …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin Leaked — A few sources have alerted me to a project that Facebook has been working on: integrating Facebook Connect directly with Wordpress. For all you developers that also thought that building a Facebook Connect plugin would be brilliant idea, you might want to stop development.
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Vishesh Kumar / Wall Street Journal:
Price War Erupts For High-Speed Internet Service — The battle between cable and phone companies to sign up new customers for high-speed Internet service is heating up, creating fresh opportunities for consumers to cut their bills. — Verizon Communications Inc., which last quarter became …
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch:
Hulu Launches Fall Lineup, Premieres Before TV Broadcast — Hulu on Tuesday announced that it has launched its Fall Premiere Lineup, which over the next seven weeks, will be the place to find season premieres of Prison Break, Bones, House, Heroes, The Office and 30 Rock.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Skype ignores PayPal-siphoning hijack scheme — Download free whitepaper - Gartner Paper: US Data Centers - The Calm Before the Storm Gartner Report: How IT Management Can “Green” the Data Center - Free Download — One day last month, when Klaus Zimmerman tried to log into his Skype account …
