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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Firefox 3.1 raises the browser bar ... again — Competition is a good thing, and the way that Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome have re-invigorated browser development will mean good a better web experience all round. — Let's be honest, Internet Explorer never really offered Firefox much of a challenge.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Who's Afraid of Chrome? Flock 2 Released With Even More Bells And Whistles — Design philosophies could hardly be further apart. Google's ironically named Chrome browser, which launched last month, advanced the notion that browsers ought to be neither seen nor heard.
Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 3.1 beta 1 now available for download — Please note: Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed.
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Christopher Blizzard / Web Tech Blog:Firefox 3.1 beta 1 - an overview of features for web developers
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:First look: Firefox 3.1 beta 1 officially released
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Lifehacker, Lockergnome Blog Network, The Tech Report, Download.com editors, Gizmodo and digg.com
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Is Steve Jobs Preparing His Farewell? — Steve Jobs is leaving Apple. Not tomorrow, but probably very soon. That's why he started to say good bye today, doing something more important than just presenting new MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and an updated MacBook Air.
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
First Look: MacBook and MacBook Pro — A quick hands-on tour of what's new and different in Apple's new laptops — The new MacBook and MacBook Pro are here. No, not just “here” in the sense of “publicly acknowledged by Apple and being shipped to arrive in Apple Stores tomorrow.”
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TUAW, Gadget Lab, Negative Approach, The iPhone Blog, Engadget, MacRumors and Edible Apple
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel comments on chips in new MacBook, Nvidia win — Nvidia in, Intel out? Not quite. Intel is still very much a player in the silicon that powers the newest MacBooks. — That said, Intel did get bumped by Nvidia in graphics. The new Apple MacBook and MacBook Air both now come …
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VentureBeat, MacRumors, Electronista, Engadget, Infinite Loop, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider
Market Wire:
YouTube, PBS Ask Americans to “Video Your Vote” — Citizens to Document Their Voting Experiences From Polling Places — The initiative educates voters on the entire process and a wide array of issues associated with voting in America, while enabling the world to watch pivotal moments in this historic election as they unfold.
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Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Market Grew 15 Percent in Third Quarter of 2008 on Strength of Mini-Notebook Shipments; Industry Feeling the Impact of the Economic Crunch — Acer Moves Past HP for Top Position in EMEA Market — Worldwide PC shipments reached 80.6 million units in the third quarter of 2008 …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Today's Claim Chowder — Let's flag the most egregiously wrong rumor reports from the last few weeks. — DUNCAN RILEY: $800 MACBOOKS — Jackass of the week honors go to Duncan Riley at Inquisitr, who a week ago launched the “$800 laptop from Apple” rumor.
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Profy, Silicon Alley Insider, blogs.chron.com, Apple 2.0, Infinite Loop, Technovia, Brier Dudley's blog and The Inquisitr
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
First New York Times API is Live - Here's Why it Matters — The much-anticipated first Application Programming Interface (API) from the New York Times went live today, according to a post on the company's blog Open - All the code that's fit to printf(). First up is a campaign finance data API and next is a movie review API.
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Business Technology:
More Gloom in Venture-Capital Land — Silicon Valley venture capitalists last week declared that the financial downturn had reached tech's shores. Now their gloomy outlook is even more official. — In a study released Wednesday by the University of San Francisco, Mark Cannice …
Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report:
Twitter accidentally reveals search integration? — Twitter Search integration? — (Credit: Twitter on Get Satisfaction) — We've assumed that Twitter would be integrating Twitter Search (formerly Summize) into the main site for awhile now. It seems that Twitter has accidentally confirmed this integration.
John Dowdell / jd/adobe:
The thing about Player 10 — Techmeme is covering the press release. I see Adobe Flash Player a little more simply. — It's the world's runtime. It runs across more environments than anything else. When you send it instructions, you know how it will act. — It makes display easy.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jive Software Lays Off 1/3 Of Staff — When it comes to layoffs, 1/3 of total staff seems to be a magic number. Portland based Jive Software, which is backed by Sequoia, laid off around 40 people today, a third of their total staff. This follows massive employee growth over the last year.
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The Open Road, Chris Kalani DOT com!, Web Strategy, Silicon Forest, Silicon Florist and Xconomy
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Cablevision Expands Free Wi-Fi Network - Coverage now extends into CT, Dutchess/Westchester Counties... Cablevision has reached out to us to note that their effort to provide free Wi-Fi to all of their broadband subscribers is moving along. After lighting up a massive swath of Long Island in September …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Evenful Grabs $10 Million Series C Funding — Local events service Eventful has announced that they have raised $10 million in a series C round of funding today. The funding came from lead investor Telefónica and existing investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Bay Partners.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
All Eyes On Google This Week — Google, who's stock is down 45% this year, announces third quarter financial results tomorrow, and Silicon Valley will be watching. Analysts expect revenues of a little over $4 billion and EPS of $4.79 - and most have price targets for the stock …
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Agence France Presse:
Computer error behind Qantas midair drama — Authorities have blamed a faulty onboard computer system for last week's mid-flight incident on a Qantas flight to Perth. — The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said incorrect information from the faulty computer triggered a series …
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InfoWorld:
Eclipse offers mobile dev tools — Seeking to establish Eclipse as the standard mobile development platform, the Eclipse Foundation on Wednesday is offering the first major release of its Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java Project (MTJ). — MTJ is a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE offering capabilities …
Gordon Haff / CNET News:
Open source gets pragmatic — Most of the time, changes in the technology landscape happen gradually. Sometimes we can look back and pick out some inflection point—though, in my experience, such are more about storytelling convenience than anything more concrete.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook hosts 10 billion photos — Facebook might not be a photo-sharing site, per se, but there are a heck of a lot of pictures uploaded to it. — On Tuesday night, engineer Doug Beaver wrote a blog post announcing that the total count of photos on the site now stands at about 10 billion.
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