On eve of Chrome store launch, Mozilla touts own Web app plans

From InfoWorld: Hoping to steal a little thunder from rival browser maker Google, Mozilla late Monday said its cross-browser Web app store would launch early next year.

Google is expected to announce the launch of its Chrome Web Store, a Web app marketplace aimed at users of its...

World of Warcraft Cataclysm Launch Smooth So Far

From PC World: Well we made it, we're still here, the servers are operational, the random disconnects were few, the lag wasn't intolerable, and the World of Warcraft will never be the same.

Cataclysm launched worldwide this morning while most of us slept. It was, you have to admit...

Tumblr explains daylong outage

From CNET News.com: After experiencing an outage that started on Sunday afternoon and stretched through most of the day yesterday, Tumblr has explained what happened.

"Yesterday afternoon, during planned maintenance that was not intended to interrupt service, an issue arose that...

Report: iPad 2 to ship next February

From CNET News.com: The next version of iPad is reportedly expected to ship as soon as the end of February.

Component makers in Taiwan say Foxconn--a key maker of iPhones and iPads--has been notified that it should be ready to ship 400,000 to 600,000 units of the next version of...

Wikileaks Loses Its Domain Name, Chief is Arrested

From DailyTech: Wikileaks aired hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that were stolen from the U.S Military, and shared 250,000 stolen classified U.S. State Department cables with The New York Times and other news organizations worldwide. The...

Android 3.0 Honeycomb Previewed, Sweet New Tablet Exposed

From DailyTech: It's no secret what gave Google half of America's smartphone market and propelled it into second place worldwide in global smartphone sales -- a combination of an open ethos, a plethora of hardware options, and an aggressive schedule of operating system updates. The...

Shipments of Samsung Galaxy Tab Slate Reach Million of Units

From X-bit Labs: After about one and a half months on the market across the world, sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab multimedia slate have hit one million sales milestone, according to the company. The interest towards the tablet seems to be growing as the Christmas season is getting near...

Elpida Renews License Agreement with Rambus

From X-bit Labs: Elpida, the largest supplier of dynamic random access memory in Japan, on Monday renewed its cross-licensing agreement with Rambus, a developer of memory and interface technologies. For some reason, Elpida also decided to pay Rambus for GDDR5 memory technology, a...

Apple fills in details for developers on its Mac App Store's rules

From InfoWorld: Make no mistake: The news that Apple would be launching a Mac App Store was probably the most significant story to come out of the company's Back to the Mac event in October -- or at least the one with the most far-reaching implications. But since that initial push...

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