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: News & Trends BlogIs Apple Creating Ad-Supported Devices?
A recently-filed patent from Apple describes a device that forces the user to view or listen to an advert. Are the company considering a move to ad-supported revenue streams?
Bing Partners with WolframAlpha to Take on Google
In an effort to topple Google, Microsoft are integrating the WolframAlpha knowledge engine with Bing search results. Would it convince you to switch from your favorite search engine?
SitePoint Roundup #1: RIP Dan Schulz, Google Closure Debate, and the Podcast Turns One
Is Dmitry Baranovskiy’s critique of Closure valid, or just nitpicking? Did you know the SitePoint podcast is one year old? What are some of the burning questions our forum members have been asking and answering? All this and more, in this look at what our community’s been doing!
EU Object to Oracle’s MySQL Takeover
Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems has been thrown into doubt following formal objections from the European Union’s anti-trust regulator. The EU believes the deal puts MySQL at risk.
Happy 5th Birthday Firefox!
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is 5 today. Has Firefox been the most influential application to emerge in the past half-decade?
ICANN Approve International Domain Suffixes
Until now, non-English computer users needed to contend with Latin-based domain name suffixes such as .com and .org. All that will change on 16 November 2009.
The New W3C Website Goes Live … With Invalid CSS!
The new and overdue W3C website redesign has been completed. Craig looks at the improvements and questions why the W3C has failed to adhere to its own standards.
Apple Bites Windows 7
Apple has revealed their opinion of Windows 7. It’s not complimentary, but does Apple need to resort to uninformed Microsoft bashing?
LA City Council Choose Google Docs Over Microsoft Office
Los Angeles City Council has approved a multi-million dollar deal to use Google’s applications for its 30,000 personnel. Are corporations starting to take cloud computing seriously?
What is a Browser? Google Explains…
92% of web users have no idea what a browser is, so how can you encourage them to upgrade or use an alternative? Craig examines whether Google has the answer.
