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Facebook Co-Founder's Asana Gives a Peek at Lunascript

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2010

Asana, the workplace productivity startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, just released a sneak peek at the new programming system underlying its product, called Lunascript. Its an in-house programming language, named after Moskovitz cat, that the company claims will cut 90 percent of the time needed to code rich web applications. Asana co-founder Justin Rosenstein explained to us when we covered Asanas $9 million round of funding that programming for the web requires a lot of rote and repetitive grunt ...

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Skype New 3G iPhone App Coming Soon CD-Quality Sound

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2010

After the news last week that Apple and AT&T are now allowing VoIP apps to make phone calls over the 3G network, Skype said it's still waiting to release a new 3G-ready version of its software for the iPhone. Today the company offered a few updates on the progress of the app, which it is apparently putting the finishes touches on and which Skype says will be available “really soon." In a YouTube video, David Ponsford, the leader of Skype's ...

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Twitter Speaks out About Hack Attacks, Tells Users to Beware

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2010

In an attempt to protect users that it feared were subject to a malicious hacker attack, Twitter has issued password-reset requests to all possibly affected accounts, the company wrote in a blog post Tuesday night. Over the last five days, Twitter noticed a few accounts had a “sudden surge in followers." Believing the activity was odd, the company decided to push out password resets to all accounts that were following the suspicious users. But after investigating the activities of those ...

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Why Chrome Will Be Your Next Browser

Source: PC Magazine
February 3, 2010

Google's Web browser is about to make the leap from upstart to leader of the pack. Google Chrome's market share numbers are skyrocketing, blowing past Safari and Opera to become the number three most-widely-used Web browser. That's pretty impressive, and I don't think it's going to stop there. I fully expect it to overtake Firefox and challenge, if not beat, Microsoft Internet Explorer sometime in the next 5 years. It took Firefox most of this decade to achieve its solid ...

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Who Doesn't Like Amazon's Prices? Rupert Murdoch

Source: PC Magazine
February 3, 2010

Enjoy $9.99 electronic books while you canfor they soon may be a thing of the past. News Corp Chief Rupert Murdoch, who oversees a media empire than includes HarperCollins books, home to authors like Michael Crichton and Janet Evanovich, made clear on Tuesday his displeasure with the low price Amazon.com Inc has set for electronic books. In order to raise prices, Murdoch wants to renegotiate the current deal with Amazon, and said the world's largest retailer appears “ready to sit ...

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SublimeVideo Hopes to Simplify HTML5 Web Video

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2010

Flash might not be disappearing overnight, but theres no denying that HTML5 is gaining momentum every day, particularly when it comes to web video.

YouTube and Vimeo both recently announced support for browser-native video through HTML5, joining other, smaller web video sites that already supported HTML5. But while HTML5 video is here, it isnt quite ready for prime time. There are the codec issues, but even without considering those, the unfortunate fact is that even just watching HTML5 video isnt ...

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Adobe CTO Defends Flash Against Apple HTML5

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2010

He waited a few days to make his point, but Adobe's head software honcho has thrown a bucket of water onto the Death of Flash fire.

In a blog post Tuesday, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch responded to Apple's recent criticisms of the Flash platform and warns that a switch to HTML5 would throw users and content creators back to the dark ages of video on the web. Lynch goes on to cite many of the same shortcomings of HTML5 video ...

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The iPad's Five Flaws, and Why They Don't Matter

Source: PC Magazine
February 2, 2010

It's probably inevitable that after a product, any product, gets as much pre-announcement hype as has the Apple iPad, it's only a day or two later that you start reading about what the product doesn't have and why it therefore must fail. No one knows yet whether the iPad will succeed. But although many of the reasons people give for its inevitable failure are true as facts, they just don't hold water as reasons that people won't buy it.Let's look ...

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