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Apple Releases Safari 4.0 Web Browser

Amidst yesterday’s Worldwide Developers Conference announcements, Apple finally released Safari 4.0, the newest version of its web browser. The new version, available here, is reported to run JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3. Other new features include Top Sites, Full History Search and Cover Flow, and support for modern web standards like […]

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Microsoft Software

Microsoft Launches Bing Preview

Having lost the battle to acquire Yahoo! so many times, Microsoft decided it still needed to get into the search engine business, and this weekend they launched a “preview” of the service. Called “bing“, the service doesn’t look much unlike Google, except for some prettier formatting. Opinions online seem pretty varied so far, as people […]

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iPhone Rumor

Voice Recognition Feature Seems Likely for iPhone OS 3.0

As the iPhone OS 3.0 beta software has been picked apart, some interesting new discoveries have emerged for consideration. The latest one, which centers around voice recognition and voice synthesis, may take the cake, though. According to Ars Technica, the software, nicknamed “Jabbler”, will be built into the SpringBoard application (the software component that controls […]