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Millions of App Store Downloads Everywhere

According to a Quantcast mobile trends report, mobile web activity in the U.S. grew 110 percent during 2009. Apple’s App Store was a huge part of that growth, with 65

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Windows 7 Has Lots of ‘GodModes’

In an e-mail interview, Steven Sinofsky, Windows division president, told cnet that Windows 7 contains a lot of undocumented shortcuts for developers. These shortcuts provide direct access to settings that

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CES: For Microsoft, Much is on the Line

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer will likely have a lot to say about his company’s focus on the consumer when he gives the opening keynote at the annual Consumer Electronics Show

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Google Chrome Passes Apple Safari, Barely

From the ‘WebKit Browser’ files: The latest December 2009 data from Net Application gives Chrome an incremental lead over Safari. According to Net Applications, Chrome has a 4.63 percent share

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Parsing XML with Hpricot, a Gem of a Ruby Gem

Jason Gilmore writes: I recently completed a project that involved parsing a large number of XML documents. Although XML is often touted as being “human readable,” it’s not exactly something

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Google Releases Java ‘Convenience’ APIs

Gavin Clarke at The Register reported that the “library includes new collection types for Multimap, Multiset, and Bitmap, a MapMaker builder for concurrent hash maps, and an Ordering collection Google