Here is our headline selection of news not to miss this morning:Desktop sales explode with double-digit growth, Google has a Buzz widget for Android, Sony gets Move to PAX East, Sony invades shopping malls and Apple files for social patent.
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Here is our headline selection of news not to miss this morning: Microsoft extends Windows XP mode for Windows 7 Pro PCs, Netflix cancels Friends feature, Mobile App revenue estimated at $11 billion per year by 2014, Smartphones take 31% share of cell phone market and HTC’s response to Apple’s iPhone patent claims.
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Microsoft’s IE9 Platform Preview isn’t really a browser that is especially practical yet. There isn’t even a URL bar and the installation of the browser might be a bit inconvenient if you are running anything less than Vista SP2 (XP is not supported in any version, period.) But Microsoft has done its homework. The browser’s JavaScript performance is impressive. Mozilla’s current Firefox version is not as fast as IE9. Extra: SLIDESHOW
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Newsbyte – Microsoft released the first platform preview of the next Internet Explorer, which comes two years after the first preview of IE8 and unveils an entirely different product approach: Microsoft departs from a strategy of pushing proprietary strategies and is focusing on technology trends instead. And IE9 is faster. A lot faster.
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