April 10: General Robert E. Lee’s last address to Confederate troops, the Titanic’s departure from Southampton, England, my friend Jake’s birthday, and now, Google’s rumored pull-out date in China. The company is preparing to announce its decision as soon as March 22, according to an anonymous source speaking to the China Business News, though it likely won’t be the end of the company’s operations in the region
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Google reportedly to part ways with China on April 10
Firefox’s flexible XUL framework and sophisticated add-on system offer a rich platform for enhancing browser functionality. Mozilla Labs takes advantage of this capability as it experiments with new concepts for augmenting Web interaction.
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Mozilla Labs builds add-on to bring address book to Firefox
Microsoft’s development direction of Internet Explorer 9 is unambiguous: implementing HTML5 Web standards is the name of the game, with the intent of letting developers use the “same markup” to work everywhere. As IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch said at MIX10 this week, “We love HTML5 so much we actually want it to work.” Redmond is targeting real-world applications based on real-world data.
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IE9, standards, and why Acid3 isn’t the priority
The fourth annual Pwn2Own contest —which takes place at the CanSecWest security conference every year—kicks off next week. Like last year , 2010’s contest will offer security experts and hackers the chance to “pwn” a number of mobile platforms in addition to various browser/OS combinations. Though no mobile devices were successfully hacked last year, expectations are high that the iPhone will go down in this year’s contest
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iPhone will be first mobile device to fall at Pwn2Own 2010
Filed under: Desktops , Hardware , Rumors , Mac Pro AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is preparing to launch a 27-inch Cinema Display and 12-core Mac Pro by June.
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27-inch Cinema Display, 12-core Mac Pro by June
It’s anyone’s guess whether we’ll see this mythical Supersonic from HTC show up at CTIA next week (wouldn’t that be awesome?), but a phone identified as the HTC A9292 has recently made an appearance in yet another internal system which can’t be a bad sign. As a refresher, the A9292 is popularly believed to be the Supersonic, a 4.3-inch Android-powered beast for Sprint that could become one of the carrier’s very first WiMAX-enabled phones.
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HTC A9292 ‘Supersonic’ shows up in another inventory listing
Are we gazing onto the cusp of a new horizon, one where our Xbox 360 storage needs aren’t shackled to overpriced proprietary hard drives ?
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Xbox 360 getting USB storage support in Spring 2010 firmware update
Filed under: Rumors , Macbook Pro When you’re waiting so intently for something you know is just around the corner, even the slightest sign of a hint at the new arrival is worth a bit of excitement. Today’s moment of thrill (which is almost certainly just a website error, but you never know), courtesy of tipster Zach, is the appearance of a Core i7 badge on the Best Buy page for the 2.53Ghz 15″ MacBook Pro. Other models are still showing the correct (as of this moment) Core 2 Duo badge, so there you go.
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Rumor: Best Buy sticks Core i7 logo on MacBook Pro page
