April 8, 2009
SeaMonkey 1.1.16 Security Release
Today, the SeaMonkey project released a new version of its all-in-one
internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.16 closes a few critical security
vulnerabilities found in previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey
offers the same level of security as its
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Best March Quarter Revenue and Earnings in Apple History
CUPERTINO, California-April 22, 2009-Apple today announced financial
results for its fiscal 2009 second quarter ended March 28, 2009. The
Company posted revenue of $8.16 billion and a net quarterly
Firefox 3.0.10
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Release Notes
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.10/releasenotes/
Security Advisories
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
http://www.getfirefox.com/
Star Trek: Old vs. New
Ron Agrella, Boston.com staff
Spinoffs of the popular Star Trek franchise are no surprise to Trek
fans, who have watched as the classic series evolved into Star Trek:
The Next Generation in 1987, 1993's Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,
Star Trek: Voyager in 1995, and
iPhone app showdown: battle of the CTA bus trackers
In Chicago, the CTA's bus tracker GPS data is essential for getting
around town via bus. However, the CTA's website isn't exactly ideal
for the iPhone. Enter two iPhone apps that reformat this data in an
easier to read format: Buster and CTA
Catching Flu From Money
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/catching-flu-from-money/
Can You Catch Swine Flu From Money?
http://www.smartmoney.com/Spending/Travel/Can-You-Catch-Swine-Flu-from-Money/
Survival of Influenza Virus on Banknotes
INNOVATION ECONOMY
App developers seek right formula to cash in on iPhone
By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist | May 3, 2009
Last month, Apple said consumers had downloaded more than 1 billion
iPhone applications from its online App Store, and that software
developers had filled the store's
Seven new iPhone applications worth checking out
Boston Globe reporter Hiawatha Bray browsed some of the iPhone
applications that Apple introduced in July. Here are seven that he
says every iPhone owner should try.
...
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/gallery/iphoneapps/
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/05/globe_issues_ul.html
Globe issues ultimatum: unions must settle or face closure
May 4, 2009 12:10 AM
By Robert Gavin and Keith O'Brien, Globe Staff
WEYMOUTH - With a midnight deadline approaching, Boston Globe management
tonight issued
After the Great Recession
By DAVID LEONHARDT
May 3, 2009
On April 14, President Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University,
trying to explain why he was taking on so many economic issues so
early in his administration. He argued that the country needed to
break its bubble-and-bust cycle and
Worst Slide Story
Bernie Madoff makes Bernardo look like a softie.
Walt Handelsman
Newsday
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/opinion/walthandelsman/blog/2009/04/animation_recession_singalong_1.html
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(May 4, 2009)
Overview
Plummeting hard drive prices and the widespread adoption of the SATA
interface have combined to create a new type of product, the drive
dock, which connects any number of inexpensive bare hard drives to
your Mac as easily as docking
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Safari 3.2.3 is now available and addresses the following:
libxml
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Safari 4 Public Beta Security Update is now available and addresses
the following:
libxml
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-3529
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11,
Mac OS X v10.5.7,
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addresses the following:
Apache
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-2939
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11
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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2009
Issued: May 12, 2009
This bulletin summary lists security
Using his wits and Wii, he conducts an orchestra
By Tristram Lozaw, Globe Correspondent | May 16, 2009
The Boston Globe
Wii would like to play. Beethoven.
Using controllers from the popular Nintendo Wii video game as a
cellist would wield a bow or a maestro a baton, Brookline's Paul
Henry
What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?
By CHARLES DUHIGG
The New York Times
May 17, 2009
Rudy Santana's day began recently, as almost all his working days
begin, with a name on a screen. The name that April morning belonged
to a Massachusetts man in his mid-30s. He owed money on a
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Insider May Have Breached More Than 10,000 Patient Records At Johns Hopkins
Employee had access to patient database as part of her job, report says
May 13, 2009 | 04:03 PM
By Tim Wilson
DarkReading
http://www.darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/privacy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217400831
iHuh?
Listen up, teenagers: New research shows that cranking up your iPod
can cause irreparable damage to your hearing
By Patricia Wen, Globe Staff | May 18, 2009
The Boston Globe
CAMBRIDGE - Seventeen-year-old Nicholas Silva has one way to escape
the tensions of teenage life: He picks up
HIV patients sue after records lost
Hospital worker left files on MBTA
By Elizabeth Cooney, Globe Correspondent | May 21, 2009
Four HIV-positive patients whose records were left behind on an MBTA
train by a Massachusetts General Hospital employee are suing the
hospital, contending their
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Apple Back to School Promotion
If you're a college student or a faculty or staff member at any grade
level and you buy a new Mac through September 8, you can get a free
iPod touch.
http://store.apple.com/us/go/promo/backtoschool
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/campaigns/back_to_school
FAQ
Check out the developer preview at Google I/O
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the
web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for
updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
http://wave.google.com/
Texting May Be Taking a Toll
By KATIE HAFNER
The New York Times
May 26, 2009
They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in
restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the
classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much
their thumbs
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QuickTime 7.6.2 is now available and addresses the following:
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-0188
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5.7,
Windows Vista and XP SP3
Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted
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APPLE-SA-2009-06-01-2 iTunes 8.2
iTunes 8.2 is now available and addresses the following:
iTunes
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-0950
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later,
Mac OS X Server v10.4.10 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2
Impact: Visiting a
Apple Unveils Mac OS X Snow Leopard
SAN FRANCISCO-June 8, 2009-Apple today unveiled Mac OS X Snow
Leopard, an even more powerful and refined version of the world's
most advanced operating system and the foundation for future Mac
innovation. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation
Apple Announces the New iPhone 3G S-The Fastest,
Most Powerful iPhone Yet
iPhone 3G Now Available for $99
SAN FRANCISCO-June 8, 2009-Apple today introduced the new iPhone 3G
S, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, packed with incredible new
features including improved speed and
Apple Introduces Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard
SAN FRANCISCO-June 8, 2009-Apple today unveiled a Developer Preview
of Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard, the next major release of the
world's easiest to use server operating system. Snow Leopard Server
is a full 64-bit UNIX server operating system
Apple Updates MacBook Pro Family with New Models Innovative
Built-in Battery for Up to 40 Percent Longer Battery Life
SAN FRANCISCO-June 8, 2009-Apple today updated the aluminum unibody
MacBook Pro line to include 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch models
featuring Apple's innovative built-in
Apple Releases Safari 4-The World's Fastest Most Innovative Browser
SAN FRANCISCO-June 8, 2009-Apple today released Safari 4, the world's
fastest and most innovative web browser. Available for Mac and
Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari
4 features the Nitro
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TechTool Pro 5
Parallels Desktop 4
Circus Ponies NoteBook 3
NetBarrier X5
DVDRemaster Pro 5
Multiplex
RipIt
MoneyWell
Paperless
Posterino
BetterZip
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At Last, Facing Down Bullies (and Their Enablers)
By PERRI KLASS, M.D.
The New York Times
June 9, 2009
Back in the 1990s, I did a physical on a boy in fifth or sixth grade
at a Boston public school. I asked him his favorite subject:
definitely science; he had won a prize in a
Doctor and Patient
Medicine in the Age of Twitter
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
The New York Times
June 11, 2009
I blog, I tweet and I use Facebook. And as I recently told a medical
colleague, social media has been an enormously useful tool in my work.
I can barely keep up with e-mail, he snorted
One girl's hope, a nation's dilemma
The Cambridge firm's drug worked wonders, but was hugely costly -
more than Costa Rica thought it could spend on 1 child among millions
By Stephen Heuser, Globe Staff | June 14, 2009
The Boston Globe
BARRANCA DE PUNTARENAS, Costa Rica - At the time, he had
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Java for Mac OS X 10.4 Release 9 is now available and addresses the
following:
Java
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1107, CVE-2008-5352, CVE-2008-5356, CVE-2008-5353,
CVE-2008-5354, CVE-2008-5357,
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APPLE-SA-2009-06-15-1 Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4
Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 is now available and addresses the
following:
Java
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1106, CVE-2009-1107, CVE-2008-5352, CVE-2008-5356,
CVE-2008-5353, CVE-2008-5354,
IPhone gulps ATT network capacity
'Tethering,' multimedia messaging service for 3G S version delayed
By Leslie Cauley
USA TODAY
NEW YORK -- ATT's wireless network is having a hard time keeping up
with the Apple iPhone, a top wireless analyst says.
That's the reason ATT isn't offering
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APPLE-SA-2009-06-17-1 iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update
iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update is now available and addresses the
following:
CoreGraphics
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-3623
Available for: iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1,
iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/softwareupdate.html
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Windows 7 pricing announced: cheaper than Vista (Updated)
Microsoft has revealed almost all the remaining information about
Windows 7. The biggest announcement is pricing: Home Premium and
Ultimate editions have slightly dropped in cost.
By Emil Protalinski | Last updated June 25, 2009 8:00
The future of 'Free'
A controversial new book argues that businesses can flourish by
giving things away. Does this make any sense?
By Drake Bennett | June 28, 2009
SINCE TUESDAY, THE techno-literary blogosphere has been alight with
the news that a forthcoming book by Chris Anderson, the
Losing the envelope
New ATMs promise consumer convenience - and savings for banks
By Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | June 28, 2009
The Boston Globe
A growing number of ATMs are missing a traditional accessory: envelopes.
Instead of stuffing deposits into envelopes to be retrieved later,
Safari 4 Downloads Top 11 Million in Three Days
CUPERTINO, California-June 12, 2009-Apple today announced that more
than 11 million copies of Safari 4 have been downloaded in the first
three days of its release, including more than six million downloads
of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the
Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models
iPhone 3.0 Software Downloads Reach Six Million
CUPERTINO, California-June 22, 2009-Apple today announced that it has
sold over one million iPhone 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the
third day after its launch. In addition, six million
Apple WWDC 2009 Keynote Address
Watch Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product
Marketing, unveil the new iPhone 3GS, the new MacBook Pro family, and
Mac OS X Snow Leopard. See the video-on-demand event right here,
exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4.
iPhone 3GS
Apple's smartphone still at the top of its game
Posted on Jun 22, 2009 9:10 am by Jason Snell, Macworld.com
In slightly less than two years, Apple's iPhone has transformed how
the world thinks of cellphones. Phone companies and hardware-makers
alike have rushed to ape the iPhone's
MacBook Pros (13-inch, Mid 2009)
13-inch laptop sees the return of FireWire
by James Galbraith, Macworld.com
Jun 23, 2009 2:30 pm
When we reviewed the aluminum MacBook back in October 2008, those MacBooks
posted performance scores that were very similar to the 15-inch MacBook Pro
that was
MacBook Pros (15-inch, Mid 2009)
Mid-size model offers upgraded specs, better value, and more options
by Jackie Dove, Macworld.com
The 15-inch MacBook Pro has historically been the most popular model
in Apple's pro notebook lineup. It's certainly easier to tote around
than its more powerful
'Tonight Show' Audience a Decade Younger
By BILL CARTER
The New York Times
July 6, 2009
One of the big questions facing Conan O'Brien was this: How can he
succeed with the older Tonight Show viewers? The answer: by making
them younger.
In Mr. O'Brien's first month as host, the median age of
Internet Companies and Ad Agencies Go From Old Enemies to New Friends
By ERIC PFANNER
The New York Times
July 4, 2009
CANNES, France - Advertising agencies and Internet companies once
viewed one another as foes, but are now coming together to harness
the potential for online advertising. As
Review: iPhone 3GS
by Robert Mohns
(June 29, 2009)
Introduction
Launched on June 19, the iPhone 3GS is Apple's follow-on to the
phenomenally successful iPhone 3G. Exemplifying the philosophy if it
ain't broke, don't fix it, the 3GS looks exactly like the 3G, except
for tiny text on the back
Revamped MacBook Pro line delivers top-notch display quality
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | by Rob Galbraith
What a difference six months makes. Back in January, we wrote about the
suitability of the screens in several notebooks for editing photos in the
field. At that time, Apple's MacBook Pro 15
App Store Pick of the Week: Whole Foods Market Recipes
July 1, 2009
If you'd like to try something both delicious and healthy this
holiday weekend, think about serving your guests Barbecue Glazed
Alaska Salmon with Tomatillo Salsa Verde. That's just one of the many
tempting meals you can
Practical Travel
Twitter Comes to the Rescue
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
The New York Times
July 5, 2009
IF you're not protesting an election or promoting a product, Twitter,
the microblogging site that has been getting so much attention these
days, can be easy to dismiss.
It's been described as an
Growing Presence in the Courtroom: Cellphone Data as Witness
By ANNE BARNARD
The New York Times
July 6, 2009
Mikhail Mallayev, who was convicted in March of murdering an
orthodontist whose wife wanted him killed during a bitter custody
battle, stayed off his cellphone the morning of the
Deathmatch: Palm Pre versus iPhone
In our last comparison, the iPhone buried the BlackBerry. Can the new
Palm Pre unseat the mobile champ?
By Galen Gruman, Brandon Brown | InfoWorld
JULY 06, 2009
here's been one promised iPhone killer after another -- the Google
Android-based G1, the RIM
Apple's Disclosures on Jobs Said to Be Subject of SEC Review
By Connie Guglielmo, David Scheer and Karen Gullo
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.'s disclosures about Steve Jobs's
health remain under scrutiny by U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission investigators over how his condition went
How to build an ark
Boston Globe
We're in the worst recession of most people's lifetime, and in the
midst of the worst stretch of summer weather that anyone can
remember. Have things reached biblical proportions? Maybe not, but
just in case, we thought it might help to provide instructions on
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/07/07/microsoft_warns_of_serious_computer_security_hole/
The Associated Press
Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole
By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer | July 7, 2009
SAN JOSE, Calif. --Microsoft Corp. has taken the
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/books/review/Vanderbilt-t.html
Unreal Estate
By TOM VANDERBILT
The New York Times
July 5, 2009
BUSTED
Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown
By Edmund L. Andrews
220 pp. W. W. Norton Company. $25.95
OUR LOT
How Real Estate Came to Own Us
By Alyssa Katz
278
June 26, 2009
Recent scenes from the ISS
Earlier this week, NASA released an amazing photograph of an eruption
of Sarychev Peak Volcano, taken by astronauts aboard the orbiting
International Space Station (ISS). Seeing that great photo prompted
me to dig into the archives and see what other
Radio
That Casey Kasem Show Was More Than Just Reaching for Stars
By MIKE HALE
The New York Times
July 8, 2009
The Casey Kasem we know was a creation of the baby boom: American
Top 40, his signature show, went on the air in 1970, and Mr. Kasem
had his biggest impact in the '70s and early
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At the tone, please don't leave a message
In an age of ever-faster communications, fewer people have time for voice mail
By Beth Teitell, Globe Correspondent | July 9, 2009
The Boston Globe
Taylor Davis, 20, a college student waiting tables in Wellesley for
the summer, waits days to listen
Review: Apple's new iPhone 3G S and iPhone Software 3.0
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/22/review_apples_new_iphone_3g_s_and_iphone_software_3_0.html
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VLC 1.0 officially released after more than 10 years of work
The open source VLC video player has finally reached version 1.0 after more
than a decade of development. The popular media player delivers an
extraordinary set of features and can play nearly anything.
By Ryan Paul | Last updated
JoT 1268: Windows needs diapers.
Fri, Jul 10, 2009 4:09 AM
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JoT 1265: Your iPhone is trying to tell you something.
Fri, Jul 3, 2009 4:13 AM
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Miro for Mac 2.0.4
Open-source video player and podcast client.
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PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY
JULY 10, 2009, 3:25 P.M. ET
Gadgets Show How Much Power Your House Eats
BY GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
Curtailing your home electricity use is a bit like losing weight: You
already understand the basics of how to do it, but it's hard to
accomplish without help and motivation. An
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Understanding the iPhone 3GS
Date: July 7th, 2009
Anand Lal Shimpi
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The Palm Pre Review
Date: June 19th, 2009
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Matty still rules the airwaves
His show's loyal following endures nearly 3 decades
By Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff | July 7, 2009
The Boston Globe
MEDFORD - It was a Friday morning, and MC Hammer was late. Matt
Siegel, also known as Matty in the Morning, was sharing his
frustration with
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Kid Entrepreneurs Build iPhone App
Two young brothers turn their school math lessons into an iPhone app
Alexandra Cheney
July 1, 2009
Inc.com
Owen Voorhees may seem to be an unlikely tech entrepreneur, because
he's just 11. But for the past nine months, he climbed a mountain of
self and
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Safari 4.0.2 is now available and addresses the following:
WebKit
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1724
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11,
Mac OS X v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5.7, Windows XP or Vista
Lessons from the Data Breach at Heartland
How a top payments processor responded to the largest-ever criminal
pilfering of credit-card data, and what other companies can learn
from it
By Rachael King
July 6, 2009, 3:33PM EST
Robert Carr was settling in for the evening in a New York hotel on
Apple iPhone Software: Developers See Green
The in-app purchasing tool on the iPhone 3.0 makes it easy for app developers
to increase sales-and helps Apple compete for mobile software
By Olga Kharif
June 16, 2009, 10:45PM EST
Apple (AAPL) wants to give software developers one more reason to
iNag for iPhone
An iPhone front-end for the Nagios network monitor
Posted on Jul 9, 2009 4:56 am by John C. Welch, Macworld.com
Like many network administrators, I use Nagios to monitor my network.
Nagios is an open-source network monitoring system that uses SNMP,
Perl, and other languages
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
By TODD LEWAN, AP National Writer
Saturday, July 11, 2009
(07-11) 12:38 PDT (AP) --
Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a
Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the
streets of San Francisco with
Tweeting From the Operating Room
By Tara Parker-Pope
July 9, 2009, 2:48 pm
When a loved one undergoes surgery, family members often pace the
waiting room or nervously await a phone call, hoping for updates from
hospital staff. This week, a Missouri children's hospital used
Twitter to update
Your Money
When the Fledglings Return to the Nest
By RON LIEBER
The New York Times
July 11, 2009
The boomerang kids, grown-ups who come home to live with their
parents anyway, are having their cultural moment.
First came a book for parents, Mom, Can I Move Back In With You?
Then, a book for
Tiburon may install license plate cameras
Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, July 10, 2009
(07-09) 19:11 PDT -- Welcome to Tiburon.
Click.
Your presence has been noted.
The posh and picturesque town that juts into San Francisco Bay is
poised to do something unprecedented: use
Op-Ed Contributor
Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me
By ROBERT X. CRINGELY
The New York Times
July 13, 2009
THE battle between Microsoft and Google entered a new phase last week
with the announcement of Google's Chrome Operating System - a direct
attack on Microsoft Windows.
This isn't the first
With a Little 'True Blood,' HBO Is Reviving Its Fortunes
By BILL CARTER
The New York Times
July 13, 2009
The slump at HBO is apparently over.
In True Blood, the pay cable giant has its first hit since Rome,
and the numbers indicate it may be the biggest thing on the channel
since The
Apple's App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year
More Than 65,000 Apps; Over 100,000 Developers
CUPERTINO, California-July 14, 2009-Apple today announced that
customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just
one year from its revolutionary App Store, the largest
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$800 Apple Tablet Coming in October?
Published on July 13, 2009
by John Paczkowski
So that mysterious touch tablet Apple's rumored to be developing?
It's about to go into production in advance of an October launch
date. This according to a report in the
In Latest 'Harry Potter,' Rage and Hormones
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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In Browser Wars, The New Firefox Loses Some Edge
Published on July 15, 2009
by Walter S. Mossberg
The war of the Web browsers has taken another turn with the release
of a major new version of Mozilla Firefox, the No. 2 browser in
market share, but No. 1
Apple demanded Microsoft to stop its Laptop Hunters ads
According to a Microsoft executive, Apple legal isn't too happy with
Microsoft's Laptop Hunters ads.
By Emil Protalinski | Last updated July 15, 2009 5:03 PM CT
Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners
during his
Apple Kills Everyone's Buzz At Once: Tethering On ATT Is Dead, Pre
Blocked In iTunes
by Greg Kumparak on July 15, 2009
And yet another game of cat and mouse begins.
Over the past 24 hours, Apple has released updates for both iTunes
and the iPhone beta SDK. While both are seemingly minor on
Apple To Palm: It's On. The Pre Is Locked Out Of iTunes
Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on July 15
Reports are coming in that Apple's latest update to its iTunes
software has locked out Palm's Pre. Precentral had the first reports
on the matter that I saw, and now Apple is confirming the matter
Teenager Falls Into Manhole While Texting
Michael Barkoviak - July 13, 2009 7:46 AM
A Staten Island teenage learns the hard way that texting and walking
can be disastrous
A teenager walking along the streets in Staten Island recently
suffered an embarrassing mistake when she walked into an
July 15, 2009
Remembering Apollo 11
40 years ago, three human beings - with the help of many thousands of
others - left our planet on a successful journey to our Moon, setting
foot on another world for the first time. Tomorrow marks the 40th
anniversary of the July 16, 1969 launch of Apollo
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Personal Technology
New iPhone Is Better Model-Or Just Get OS 3.0
Published on June 17, 2009
by Walter S. Mossberg
Apple Inc.'s iPhone has been a smashing success, redefining the smart-phone
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