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iPhone 4 announced

Apple officially announced iPhone 4. The new phone goes on sale June 24th and it will cost $199. iPhone 4 features and facts: – a new high resolution display that doubles the pixels in each direction (960 x 640) – larger battery, the new handset is rated at 7 hours of 3G talk, 6 hours

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D-Day

D-Day June 6, 1944 We Remember. U.S. Army troops wade ashore on Omaha Beach during the landings, 6 June 1944. Total allied casualties (killed, wounded, missing, or captured) are estimated at approximately 10,000. Operation Overlord (also known as D-Day and Operation Neptune ) was the codename for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe. Operation Neptune

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Testing website on various browsers

Cross-browser testing is one of the most important part of modern website development. Instead of having many browsers installed on a computer, website designers use available cross-browser testing applications and services. Most of them are expensive, however there is at least one free alternative. First, let me list paid services: BrowserCam – $1,000/year BrowserLab –

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Oracle cuts jobs

Oracle is making job cuts (mainly in Europe and Asia) related to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. When acquisition took place in 2009 , Sun announced plans to lay off 3,000 workers, or about 10 percent of its workforce. Right now we do not know how many jobs it plans to cut. An Oracle said

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Google Music

A few weeks ago Google announced a web-based iTunes competitor that will be a new section of the Android Market. That is how would that work – a user would go to the Market on the web, then find a song, click the download button, and the song would be downloaded to Android devices.

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Quality of Wikipedia

Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University checked the accuracy of information on the popular open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia with that on the National Cancer Institute’s Physician Data Query. PDQ is a professional database that is peer-reviewed and edited. Both sources were fact-checked against textbooks. The final conclusion: Wikipedia is accurate but poorly written. Results shows that Wikipedia

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Use of IE6 drops, Chrome rises

Internet Explorer 6 has dropped to less than 5% browser market share in the US. Chrome, Google’s browser share grew last month. To learn more visit the newest reports about Search Engine Market Share and Browser Market Share.

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Google doesn’t use Microsoft Windows

One of a thing Google blames for China hacking attack is Windows and its security problems. Google just announced that it is banning Microsoft Windows from internal use. That means Google’s employees will be able to choose only between Apple’s Mac OS and Linux. What does it mean for Microsoft? More than 20,000 Windows licenses

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2 Million iPads Sold In less than 60 days

Apple has just announced that sales of iPad (tablet computer) have reached two million since its launch on April 3. It is almost a month after announcement that Apple had sold 1 million iPads. Apple’s expansion is still in progress, the iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and additional countries later

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Skype 2.0

The new app Skype 2.0 just landed in the app store. Skype 2.0 for iPhone allows you make calls over 3G. However, there is a catch. After August 2010 Skype will charge a small monthly fee for use of the 3G calling feature. That means even though you already pay AT&T for a data plan,

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