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Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky to Demo Windows 8

Microsoft confirmed Sinofsky’s appearance at All Things Digital D9 conference. A source, familiar with Microsoft’s plans, has informed WinRumors that Microsoft is planning to demo its Windows 8 Tablet UI at D9. Microsoft has a habit of introducing new technologies at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital Conference, which will run from May 31 to June 2 this year. Microsoft will show a “technology preview” of its Windows 8 Tablet experience at the conference next week.

May 24, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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Apple

Apple Throws Weight Behind Devs On Patent Issue

Apple has sent notice to Lodsys, as well as developers targeted by the patent holdings firm, saying it has licensed the rights to in-app purchase, and that that license extends to developers on the iOS platform. Developers MobileAge, the makers of the game Shanghai lite, received a letter from Apple's senior vice president and general counsel, Bruce Sewell, telling them that the company has already licensed the four patents in Lodsys' portfolio, and that said license allows Apple's customers and business partners similar coverage to use it.

May 24, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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Ballmer Promises over 500 New Features in Windows Phone Mango

Speaking at Microsoft’s Developer Forum 2011, Ballmer promised the features at a VIP launch event and hinted at new handsets. “Including some of the particulars about who is going to be building Windows Phones and which carriers will be offering them,” said Ballmer. WMPoweruser spotted Ballmer’s speech and provided a video recording. The confirmation of a big feature set further confirms Microsoft’s plans of a big launch for Windows Phone 7.5 later this year.

May 24, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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General

Rapid-release Idea Spreads to Firefox 5 Beta

Mozilla released a beta version of Firefox 5, its first on a new quick-release plan intended to bring features to browser users and Web developers sooner. Firefox 5 beta's big new feature is support for CSS animations, which let Web developers add some pizzazz to actions such as making dialog boxes pop up or switching among photos. Also in the new version is canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking, according to the release notes and bug-fix list.

May 23, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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Google

Chrome 13 Lets Users Hide the Address Bar

Since Google's official unveiling of the Chrome Web Store six months ago, the company has been on a mission to redefine our perception of what constitutes an operating system, a browser and a program, blurring the lines between each. In Google's world, an OS is a browser and a program - one of those hefty pieces of compiled code we used to download or install from a CD - is now a Web app.

May 20, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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Apple Near Cloud-Music Deals

Apple has signed a cloud-music licensing agreement with EMI Music and is very near to completing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, multiple music industry sources told CNET. Warner Music Group already had a deal in place with Apple. The licensing agreements will enable Apple to launch a fully licensed cloud-music service to rival unlicensed offerings of rivals Amazon and Google.

May 19, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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General

New PlayStation Network Hack?

Sony's nightmare may not be over yet. New reports show that PlayStation Network user accounts can be exploited by hackers through the password reset page. Hackers can use the PSN reset page to get into users' accounts using only a PSN email and date of birth. Both of these pieces of information were stolen during the original breach. As a result, sign-in is now unavailable across a wide number of Sony's sites, as the company deals with the issue.

May 19, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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General

JavaScript: Now Powerful Enough to Run Linux

Programmer Fabrice Bellard's latest project is a JavaScript program that emulates an x86 processor fast enough to run Linux in a Web browser. The JavaScript PC Emulator can do the work of an Intel 486 chip from the 1990s, but doesn't have a built-in floating point unit for numeric processing, Bellard said. Linux itself can emulate that, and a version of the operating system's core--2.6.20--runs on the foundation.

May 18, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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Bing Launches A Massive New Facebook Integration

In a stunning move of corporate cooperation, Bing has teamed up with Facebook to deeply integrate the social giant into not just into its search results, but into its search algorithms, fundamentally changing the way it will create results.

May 18, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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Chrome OS Beta Channel Update

The Chrome OS Beta channel has been updated to R12 release 0.12.433.38 including Chrome 12 Beta, new trackpad, new flash player and several stability and functional improvements over the previous release.

May 17, 2011 Rob Nijkamp

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