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I wouldn’t have thought that it’d be concern for the consoles - just the portables. Is this just a little pre-hysteria for the benefit of impending monopoly type lawsuits or is it…

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heh.

CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in…

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Heh.

Gregg Keizer / Techworld.com:
IE 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in  — Chrome Frame boosts Microsoft browser’s JavaScript performance  — …

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Amazon loves them thin margins. I wonder if this is a sign of poor sell through…

Sprint may have recently dropped the Pre to $150 (after rebate; with 2-year contact),…

Well, this is getting particularly silly now. Despite claiming that she wasn’t going to the meeting of various musicians in the UK to discuss Peter Mandelson’s “three strikes” proposal, Lily Allen…

Surprise, surprise: It seems the only folks eager for a newspaper bailout are:

• Newspapers

• Politicians who have friends at newspapers

Support for a newspaper bailout is so low that only 2…

Really don’t want to turn this into an all Lily Allen all the time blog, but reader Peter has sent in something rather interesting: When Lily was first trying to get attention, she created a couple…

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that’s pretty neat. grisly, but neat.

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Want.

An eBay auction (ending in 10-hours) offers the chance to be amongst the first to go through the Jetpack’s test pilot training program. You’ll need to be over 18, have…

Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple ready and waiting with redesigned iMac line  — Apple as early as this month will begin to fill out its 2009 Mac product line with a new…

David Levine points us to an analysis by Kevin Smith (not the movie maker) at Duke University of a recent report from the World Economic Forum, placing the US as 19th in how strong our…

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Microsoft! Yeah, hell, why not? Add another one to their mobile mix.

We’ve heard rumors about a Palm (PALM) acquisition ever since the firm launched the Pre in January.

You…

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I find this whole thing sad. It was the perfect time for an illuminating discourse (by proxy) between the music industry and the filesharing community. I wonder if Techdirt has…

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i guess this will affect all html rendering. maybe msft will start shipping this default. :)

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Wow, will this make ie render like chrome?

Though Internet Explorer has been panned for lack of web-standard compliance, many are forced to use the browser because of…