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Nate Lanxon / CNET News:
Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 — Proving itself a staggering 42 times faster at rendering JavaScript than IE 7, our benchmarks confirm Apple's Safari 4 browser, released in beta today, is the fastest browser on the planet.
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Hands on: Safari 4 beta fast, mixes polish, rough UI edges — Apple on Tuesday released Safari 4 beta, a new version of its browser for Mac OS X and Windows. This update brings a bunch of new features, including a flashy new Top Sites view, a completely redesigned Windows UI, and support for some impressive emerging Web standards.
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Sundar Pichai / Google Public Policy Blog:
Browsers powered by user choice — Last month the European Commission confirmed that it had sent a statement of objections to Microsoft about the tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, which it said “harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.”
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Ars Technica, The Register, Computerworld, New York Times, Guardian, Digital Daily, TechFlash, All about Microsoft, Pocket-lint.co.uk and The Microsoft Blog, Thanks:atul
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Kevin J. O'Brien / International Herald Tribune:Microsoft fears EU fine over browser
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WMPoweruser.com:
Windows Mobile 7 coming next year, says Ballmer — Microsoft has had an conference call earlier today, and Steve Ballmer spoke about Windows Mobile as one of its 7 big businesses. — According to Ballmer, Microsoft has been ramping up expenditure in the Windows Mobile segment over the last few years …
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MediaMemo, Unwired View, InformationWeek, Phone Arena, The Register, Reuters, Neowin.net and Engadget
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Members of Congress twitter through Obama's big speech — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Members of Congress twittered their way through President Obama's nationally televised speech Tuesday night, providing a first-of-its-kind running commentary that took users of the social networking site inside the packed House chamber.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Pirates Kill the Music Biz — Today's first witness is Tobias Andersson from Piratbyrån and later on the IFPI's CEO John Kennedy will testify, although it's not expected that he will respond to the open letter and peace offering issued yesterday by the ‘Kopimists’.
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Prosecution Alters Pirate Bay Charges in Bid to Win Conviction — Special correspondent Oscar Swartz reports. — STOCKHOLM - The Pirate Bay prosecutor altered the copyright-infringement charges Tuesday to make it easier to convict the four defendants who co-founded the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Connected Life Head Marco Boerries To Leave Yahoo — Yahoo's top mobile exec Marco Boerries is departing Yahoo, according to an internal email obtained by BoomTown that he sent to sent to some staffers on Sunday. — I have also confirmed Boerries' departure with company insiders familiar with the situation.
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Ryan Spoon:
Perez Hilton Hits 14,000,000 Pageviews Yesterday. Wow. — You might not be interested in celebrity news and gossip... You might not consider it important or meaningful... But to the web, it is significant and marks a major move in the Digital Media space.
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Associated Press:
Google pays for e-mail outage with 15-day credit — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. is making amends for an e-mail outage by giving 15 days of free service to businesses, government agencies and other subscribers who pay for an expanded version of the product.
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The Register, Royal Pingdom, GigaOM, VentureBeat, UNEASYsilence and The Official Google Blog
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The unrecognizable Internet of 1996. — The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today. — It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online.
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Fast-Spreading Phishing Scam Hits Gmail Users — UPDATE 6:45 p.m. : This post has been updated to include comments from an analyst. — Google just can't get a break today. — First, Google's e-mail service froze for several hours, locking out millions of users.
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Kdoctor / Content Bridges:
Chronicle Crackdown Prompts Question: Where's the Bay Area Online Super Startup? — We knew that Hearst's moves in Seattle — saying in early January that it would sell or close down the Post-Intelligencer — was just a dry run for San Francisco. After all, the Hearst-owned Chronicle …
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Roy Blount Jr / New York Times:
The Kindle Swindle? — BEING president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. But now I am president of the Authors Guild, whose mission is to sustain book-writing as a viable occupation.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
World Economic Forum Announces New Batch Of Young Global Leaders (Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley, Kevin Rose And More) — The World Economic Forum has just published its annual list of Young Global Leaders, recognizing “between 200 and 300 outstanding young leaders from around the world …
Acacio Cruz / Gmail Blog:
Update on today's Gmail outage — Gmail had a major outage early this morning: for about two and a half hours starting at 1:30 am PST while many of our users in the US were asleep, many people couldn't access their email. Lots of people around the world who rely on Gmail were disrupted during …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
New Google toolbar for IE includes desktop search — Google on Tuesday released a new version if its software toolbar for Internet Explorer. Included is a feature carried over from the company's desktop search product—a search box that runs whether or not you have your browser open.
Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Obama's new Commerce pick has strong ties to tech, China — President Obama may soon announce former Washington Gov. Gary Locke as his third choice for secretary of commerce. — A White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told CNET News it is likely that the president will nominate Locke to run the department.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Gizmodo's Amazon Kindle 2 Review Matrix — You don't wanna wear out your eyes reading superlong Kindle 2 reviews before you get one, right? Well here's our review matrix for quick, easy-on-the-eyes digestion of reviews from tech's biggest names. — We've got reviews here from the NYT's David Pogue …
Amazon Web Services Blog:
New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia — We have just released four additional AWS public data sets, and have updated another one. — In the Economics category, we have added a set of transportation databases from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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Paul Venezia / The Deep End:
Could the Childs case put all network admins in danger? — If Childs is convicted of some charges actually brought against him, any network admin could go to jail for doing their job — Later this week, San Francisco's infamous network admin Terry Childs will appear in court …
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Times of India:
Bloggers unite against SC verdict — 25 Feb 2009, 0242 hrs IST, Shreya Roy Chowdhury, TNN — Text: — NEW DELHI: Outraged bloggers vented their ire in cyberworld against the Supreme Court's take that they may face libel, even prosecution, for airing their views online.
