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  Firefox 3.5: Excellent, but no 'Web upgrade'

  hands-on New release brings the second-most popular browser up to speed with current browsing technology and trends, and perhaps nudges it ahead of the competition.
  • Firefox faces challengers
  • Screenshots of Firefox 3.5

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  Making sense of Windows 7 upgrades

  faq The basics and the fine print on Microsoft's options for those eyeing the next operating system from Redmond.
  • Windows 7 preorder a hit

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• Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store

  The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.

  (Posted in Apple by Leslie Katz)

• Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites

  At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Leslie Katz)

• Defending against chemical and biological weapons

  At an Army facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them.
  • Photos: Dugway Proving Grounds
  • Live-blogging from Spiral Jetty
  • More from Road Trip 2009

  (Posted in Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman)

• Photos: Soaring ambition for solar aircraft

  The Solar Impulse HB-SIA is designed to fly both day and night without the need for fuel and without producing any pollution.

• iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web

  Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.

  (Posted in Crave by Leslie Katz)

• Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle

  q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.

  (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)

• Week in review: A speedier new Firefox

  Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Michelle Meyers)

• DOJ opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement

  Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Tom Krazit)

• Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID

  Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.

  (Posted in Apple by David Meyer)

• iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing

  Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Report: Acquittal in MySpace suicide case

  Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.
  • Court: MySpace not liable for offline assaults

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Google App Engine misfires

  A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday.

  (Posted in Webware by Tom Krazit)

• Net neutrality gets a boost from the feds

  The Obama administration includes the FCC's Net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)
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