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Next week is the coming out party for Windows Phone 7. It arrives at a time folks are questioning everything that isn’t either coming from Apple or based on Android. In fact, with questions increasing on Android because of lawsuits from Apple, Oracle, and Microsoft and the iPad beating even the most aggressive sales forecasts you might argue that the only sure thing in this new hardware class is something that comes from Apple.

Mozilla has continued the delay of Firefox 4 Beta, 7, the critical feature freeze release of the browser preview.

Chrome (Chromium) 7.0.544.0 has added optional support for background Web Apps.

In a sobering move, Goldman Sachs is downgrading shares of Microsoft – from “buy” to “neutral” — with analyst Sarah Friar lowering her target on the stock from $32 to $28.

Microsoft thinks it finally has a winning software platform for the mobile market. On Oct. 11, new phones featuring the new Windows Phone 7 will be announced with partners likely including HTC, Samsung, and LG.

Google today announced its first content partners for its TV platform and released a website dedicated to its new service. It is apparent that Google has looked at the failures in the past, corrected mistakes and is integrating itself even deeper into your life. If Apple watches, it may learn a thing or two.

Microsoft will drop life support for Windows on October 22 and hope that those who may want another copy will appreciate a $150 Windows 7 Family Pack offer.

Mark Zuckerberg’s apparently purely fictitious story of the founding of Facebook, was the most popular movie at box offices with an estimate volume of $23 million.

How do you measure browser performance? There is no way to exactly pinpoint how fast a browser will work in any given scenario. But today’s approaches that base speed claims on JavaScript performance hardly reflect how fast a browser really is or how fast it will be in a real world scenario. We have taken some time over the past weeks and built our own benchmark with tools that have been available for some time as well as CT Mark, which measures the actual load time of web pages. We will use this new benchmark suite, the CT Performance Index, from now on to evaluate browser performance. Here is our first result.

We so wanted Sony to have a good shot at this year’s Christmas season. But Sony has an incredible talent to shoot itself in the foot. The PS3 Move may be the best example yet.

Almost one year after the introduction of Windows 7 it appears that the hype surrounding the operating has faded. The overall market share of Windows has turned into a slight decline again. Windows 7 is gaining share, but cannot keep pace with the loss of Windows XP and Vista. Especially Windows XP users seem to be happy with what they have and appear to be rather resistant to Microsoft’s pitches that it is time to upgrade to Windows 7.

The IE8 advertising campaign has expired and IE has turned back into a market share decline and surrendered all market share that the TV commercials bought and then some. If you ask Net Applications, IE has fallen to a new 11-year low of less than 60% market share and if you ask StatCounter, then IE is already below 50% and a 13-year low. In Europe, Firefox is about to surpass IE’s market share. IE9 has shown little impact so far.