| Microsoft tries to offer something different |
| Internet Explorer 8, now available in beta, is the company's bid to move ahead of Firefox and Apple's Safari in performance, features and user experience. |
| Nikon ushers in the era of the video SLR |
| The D90 shoots high-definition video, while allowing the user all the lens flexibility of a still camera. |
| Market researcher loses bidder and rejects another |
| Taylor Nelson Sofres struck a brave pose Wednesday, again rejecting a hostile bid from WPP Group after its preferred merger partner walked away. But analysts said the company was now almost certain to end up in WPP's embrace. |
| Men Like It Hot, Women Like It in Prose |
| Author Bill Tancer says Americans are clicking on a lot of adult Web sites. |
| Microsoft's newest browser may block ads
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| AP - The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace. |
| One small hitch for FAA, one giant mess for fliers |
| CHICAGO (AP) -- When a computer system that distributes flight plans nationwide came rolling to a halt this week because of a software glitch, so did airplanes on tarmacs from Orlando to Chicago. The ensuing delays drove home just how easily an apparently isolated problem can trigger network-wide disarray in the country's aging air traffic control system.... |
| Consumers picked to test hydrogen car prototypes |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tom Albert drove his loaner Chevrolet Equinox like any other car.... |
| Microsoft's newest browser may block ads |
| SEATTLE (AP) -- The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace.... |
| Exercise in Bed, Literally |
| A surgeon has designed a bed with a built-in treadmill. |
| IE8 Beta Released To Public |
| Tim writes ''English, German, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese versions of Internet Explorer 8 have been released for public beta. New features include accelerators, which provide instant context menu access for a number of common tasks; automatic crash recovery, which prevents a single page's failures from taking down your entire browser; and browser privacy, a feature that didn't make Firefox 3. I'm primarily a Firefox user, and I've been using IE8 at work (MS) for the past few weeks. It's a definite improvement over previous versions, and brings a lot to the table that Firefox requires extensions for. Give it a spin, submit feedback, and help keep all browser makers on their toes by facing each other's competition.''Read more of this story at Slashdot. |
