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Apple Announces Safari 4—The World's Fastest & Most Innovative Browser — New Nitro Engine Runs JavaScript More Than Four Times Faster — Apple® today announced the public beta of Safari® 4, the world's fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple releases public beta of Safari 4 browser — Apple on Tuesday announced a public beta of Safari 4, a new version of its share-gaining web browser that packs a powerful new JavaScript engine and support for the latest web standards. — Dubbed “Nitro,” the engine in Safari 4 …
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Safari 4: Finally a reason to come back UPDATE — Welcome to the future, Safari fans, because the Safari 4 beta just hit the download shelves and it's ready to tear some things up in Tiger and Leopard and even Windows. The download requires the latest security patch (2009-01) but other than that you're ready to ride.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Where were you during the great Gmail outage of February 2009? — If you live in the United States, chances are, you were asleep. But for those in other parts of the world, and those of us who are nocturnal, Google's email service, Gmail, was down for several hours on Tuesday morning.
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Google users hit by mail blackout — Business and consumer users of Google's popular e-mail service were hit by a blackout on Tuesday. — The service went offline at 0930 GMT and began to return for many users after four hours, one of the longest downtimes ever suffered by Google.
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Bits, TechCrunch, SANS Internet Storm Center …, Slashdot, Dave Naylor a UK SEO … and Search Engine Journal
David Pogue / New York Times:
The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now — In the high-tech industry, you live for the day when your product name becomes a verb. “I Googled him.” “She's been Photo- shopped.” — Amazon, however, is hoping that its product name, a verb, becomes a noun. “Have you bought the new Kindle?”
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:Designing the Kindle 2 — SEATTLE—Amazon wanted to make the …
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Official google.org Blog:
The Next Chapter for Google.org — When Larry and Sergey laid out their vision for Google.org, they hoped that this “experiment in active philanthropy” would one day have an even greater impact on the world than Google itself. They committed resources from Google's profits …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Ballmer: Office 14 not this year — During his annual “Strategic Update” briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 won't be shipping in 2009. — “Office 14 will not be this year,” Ballmer told analysts. — Microsoft officials have been careful …
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time — Netbooks prove that we finally know what PCs are actually for. Which is to say, not all that much. — Mary Lou Jepsen didn't set out to invent the netbook and turn the computer industry upside down. She was just trying to create a supercheap laptop.
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Facebook risks ‘infantilising’ the mind — Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Steve Jobs is 54 — Tuesday, Feb. 24, is Steve Jobs' birthday. — He turns 54. — To celebrate this very personal milestone, we thought we'd re-post what may be the most personal public speech this intensely private man has ever made: his 2005 commencement address to the Stanford University class of 2005.
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Andy Sternberg / netZoo:
To 90,000 Twitter Followers in 30 Days — Last month Twitter quietly launched a new feature that generated a list of suggested users to follow. Most likely as a result of this list, the followers to many Twitter accounts increased exponential over the course of the last month.
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
New NVIDIA-based iMacs Imminent? More Hints. — Over the past week, there have been an increasing number hints that the long-awaited iMac revisions are indeed imminent. Resellers have had low stocks of iMacs and educational Apple sales reps have been authorized to give special pricing on the current iMacs.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Yahoo Loses a Deal-Maker, Point-Person in Microsoft talks — By Jessica E. Vascellaro — As Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz readies a company-wide reorganization, insiders are playing close attention to how she'll fill one critical hole. — Gerald Horkan, Yahoo's senior vice president …
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Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report:
Marvell unveils $99 wall-wart Linux PC — If you thought nettops were cheap, wait until you get a load of this: Marvell has announced the SheevaPlug, a $99 reference design based on the company's own “plug computer” concept. In short, this system plugs directly into a power socket …
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
Earnings: Thomson Reuters Q4 Held Up, Media Sales Dipped; More Savings Found — [In progress] Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) recorded $3.4 billion Q4 revenue - five percent higher than the year ago without factoring currency fluctuations, but growth was flat if fluctuations are factored in.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Media Mogul Steve Rattner Goes To Washington, Where He Won't Be Car Czar — Steve Rattner (pictured here), once one of the the most prominent bankers in the media business, is going to Washington, after all. Except that the Quandrangle Group founder won't be getting the “Car Czar” …
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VISTO to Acquire Good Technology From Motorola — Acquisition will extend VISTO's mobility offerings and expand its base of — customers to include many of the Fortune 500 — REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and SCHAUMBURG, Ill. /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — VISTO®, a leading mobile push …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Making sense of Mac market share figures — Apple's slice of the market share pie continues to grow, even during this economic downturn. But the numbers from different sources tend to be all over the place. What do they all mean, and what's the big picture for Apple's market share trajectory?
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo To Offer Day Parting, Demographic Targeting & Display Ads Based On Searches — Yahoo to Offer Tools To Match Users, Ads from the Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo is set to launch new ad features and tools today. What is expected to launch today is the ability for advertisers …
Natasha Lomas / silicon.com:
“Android is not open. It's a marketing label” — Google, Symbian get claws out in ‘open’ cat fight — If you thought the rise of open OS platforms would herald a new era of peace and harmony in the mobile industry you'd be sadly mistaken, as rival players in the space Google and the Symbian Foundation …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Apple launches a new iTunes Pass feature for groupies — Is there an artist you love? I mean really love, as in you'll buy anything they do before you have any idea what it is? A lot of people probably do, and for them, Apple has a new feature on iTunes called “iTunes Pass.”
Mark Rutherford / CNET News:
Borg-like cybots may patrol government networks — The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created software that uses colonies of borg-like cyberrobots it says will help government agencies detect and fend off attacks on the nation's computer network infrastructure.
InfoWorld:
VMware adds to cloud strategy — VMware has security for its cloud OS, an API for integrating internal and external clouds and improved management features in store for the visitors of VMworld Europe, which kicks off on Tuesday. — At the event, the company will continue to build …
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
‘I Am Richer’ App Pops Up in Android Marketplace for $200 — Is it any huge surprise that someone is already charging the maximum Android Marketplace price for a nonsensical, paid app? Or that the name makes reference to the $1000 “I Am Rich” iPhone app? No.
Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Which startup's collapse will end the Web 2.0 era? — The Silicon Valley machine is still going, for now — Here in Palo Alto, the Silicon Valley machine is still going strong - entrepreneurs are still starting companies, angels and VCs are still investing, and engineers are still coding.
