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Web creator Berners-Lee: “Sorry about those slashes!”
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, but says he got it wrong when he put the // in front of the ‘www’.
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Facebook Lite offers content without the crud
New Facebook Lite isn’t quite so ‘in your face’ – it’s a leaner, cleaner and dare we say more Twitter-esque look without the overload of apps, ads and other distractions.
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Is ‘Googlism’ the new religion?
The Church Of Google suggests the super-powered search engine is a man-made God, with more evidence in favour of its divinity than for “other more traditional gods”.
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Sneak Peak: Streamlined ‘Chrome’-style UI for Firefox 4?
Official mockups of Firefox 4 reveal hints of a streamlined UI similar to Google’s Chrome browser in what Mozilla calls a ‘Tabs-on-Top’ design concept.
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Google admits it is making its own OS
Google has announced via a blog post that it is working on "Chrome OS", an OS designed to take Linux on the desktop mainstream.
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Just how much faster is the iPhone 3GS?
Testing reveals the iPhone 3.0 OS update alone delivers a 3x Javascript browsing boost to the iPhone 3G, while other tweaks to the 3GS provide an additional 3x kick on top of that.
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Facebook to get Twitter-style usernames
From 2pm this Saturday Facebook users will be able to register a username which will become their profile’s Web address.
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Microsoft to launch new Aussie search engine at Bing.com.au
Microsoft’s all-new ‘Kumo’ search engine, which replaces Live Search, will be branded as Bing and launched in Australia this week at bing.com.au
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Google polishes Chrome 2.0 browser
The new Web browser is not only much faster, it finally gets form auto-fill and a full-screen mode. Hurrah!
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Cheeseburger powers 15,000 Google searches
It's so wrong, and yet, so right. Just one cheeky little cheeseburger can power 15,000 of your toughest Google searches.
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Firefox to get multicore boost
Firefox is poised to get core software features that will allow it to make full use of multicore CPUs for faster performance.
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Will you swing on Microsoft's Vine?
Banish those dirty thoughts! It's a new Twitter-competitor from Microsoft.
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Global warming to sink .tv and .to domain names?
The highly-prized .tv domain name could be headed for extinction if tiny island and .tv host nation Tuvalu disappears beneath rising ocean waters.
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Conroy up for sale on eBay
It may be a bit late for April Fools, but Ebay member "Krudd53" has put the beleaguered Minister for Internet Censorship, Senator Stephen Conroy, up for auction.
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Fennec -- Firefox for Mobiles -- reaches Beta
Mozilla has launched a Firefox-like browser for use on mobile phones.
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