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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome — The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Firefox, a Challenging Future Awaits — For much of this decade, Mozilla and its Firefox browser were the upstarts, out to beat the big, bad Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser. Firefox, the descendant of Netscape, the browser that helped jump-start the web revolution …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Fun with numbers (browser and search share) a boon for StatCounter — If you've been following the headlines of late you'll find that StatCounter's research arm, a Web tracking service most Webheads are familiar with, has gone from afterthought to player in just a few short months.
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Details on Marc Andreessen's New Fund (Plus Five Other Interesting Things He Said) — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are launching their much-anticipated $300 million venture fund this evening, aptly called Andreessen Horowitz. — The fund will make investments of $50,000 to $50 million …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Web pioneer Andreessen raises $300M for new venture capital firm — Marc Andreessen, the entrepreneur who co-founded the first significant Web browser Netscape at 22, is moving on to his next profession: Venture Capitalism. — Andreessen (pictured left) with his long-time business partner …
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Nokia turns to Android in phone wars — Finnish mobile phone giant changes strategy to increase share in the only growing market — Nokia is understood to be developing a mobile phone that runs on Google's Android software platform in a strategic U-turn for the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Cherry, The Mobile Operator That Doesn't Care Whether You're On Wi-Fi Or Not — The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup …
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Harrison Hoffman / CNET News:
4chan may be behind attack on Twitter — Update: Twitter has reacted to this raid by removing the term from its trending topics, but evidence can still be found on Twitter Search. — Twitter saw a huge influx of fake accounts on Sunday, pushing the NSFW trending topic, #gorillapenis, all the way to the top of the list.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate — The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major version of the W3C's ubiquitous HTML standard.
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves — Twitter seems to be on a role lately. It would seem, either by bug, or some new policy just implemented, Twitter has just suspended hundreds to thousands of Twitter accounts with little to no reason. You can see all the action, semi-real-time here.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
DOCOMO Buys Into PacketVideo — NTT DOCOMO said tonight it has paid $45.5 million in cash for a 35 percent stake in mobile video company PacketVideo, a subsidiary of NextWave Wireless. The two companies have worked together for more than 10 years, with PacketVideo's pvPlayer installed on more than 90 of DOCOMO's handset models.
Markcuban / blog maverick:
When you succeed with Free, you are going to die by Free — The problem with companies who have built their business around free is that it is far from free to remain successful. — The more success you have in delivering free, the more expensive it is to stay at the top.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
iPhone 3GS. Jailbreak. Mac. — Only a couple of days after George Hotz became the first hacker to release a jailbreak app for the iPhone 3GS on Windows, there's a Mac-compatible version out too. This time, Hotz got some help from two fellow coders to be able to please the Mac folks …
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Stephen Climpson / Gizmodo:iPhone 3GS Unlocked with Purplera1n + UltraSn0w
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips — When motion pictures were invented at the end of the 19th century, most films were shorter than a minute, because of the limitations of technology. A little more than a hundred years later when Web videos were introduced, they were also cut short …
