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September 8 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9242 diggsAsif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and a controversial politician with little experience, was elected president of Pakistan. 407 diggsParticle physicists believe they will throw open a new frontier of knowledge on Wednesday when, 100 metres (325 feet) below ground, they switch on a mega-machine crafted to unveil the deepest mysteries of matter. 162 diggsLast October, we launched a rewritten code base for the Gmail user interface to Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 users. Since then, we've added support for Safari 3 and Firefox 3 and improved performance in other browsers. This new code base included major performance improvements and provided us with a solid foundation for launching new features 714 diggsMSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election. That experiment appears to be over.After months of accusations of political bias the channel yanked Keith Olbermann And Chris Matthews 317 diggsOur photo contests have become so popular that we thought we'd take a minute to look back at our favorite winners so far, from Holga, to Summer, to Transportation. The winners were selected by readers' votes over a two-week period of grueling competition. 217 diggsI wonder if the software developers use the same version of this game when they play it. Somehow I can't imagine that they do because I can't imagine someone subjecting their computer to this sort of assault intentionally.Scroll down and have a look at all the nice reviews... EA + DRM = FAIL 112 diggsThe digital media company will introduce RealDVD, a $30 software program for Windows computers that allows users to easily make a digital copy of an entire DVD. 303 diggsAbout a month ago, I reported that EA was planning to market a Crysis Warhead-ready PC. I have now learned that the machine—which, at least among the Crytek staff that specced it out, is called the “Warhead PC”—will be officially announced next week. It will be priced at $699, and it will apparently be coming in a single SKU. 474 diggsIt's time to shift the discussion about Palin to what really matters: her far-right views on the issues. Let's forget for a moment that Sarah Palin likes to kill moose, has lots of children and was once voted the second-prettiest lady in Alaska; that's all part of the gusher of sensationalist, but not particularly substantive, news that has... 396 diggsWe're starting to get used to wind turbines...not just the idea of getting a significant portion of our energy from the breeze, but also to their form on the horizon. But while the traditional tri-blade has its advantages, there are those who would see it replaced. Though we've entered the realm of rapid growth, the innovation phase is far from... 161 diggs“And this is exactly what we’re going to try to do in 2008, our first full year on the market. Is grab 1% market share, and go from there.” – Steve Jobs, Macworld 2007 274 diggsGoogle has taken the war over exclusive web content into space. Not directly, of course—the satellite that was recently launched into space on a rocket bearing the Google logo was the result of a joint venture between a commercial satellite imaging provider and the department of defense. 371 diggsLast week Dutch agriculture minister Gerda Verburg announced a groundbreaking development for the field as she unveiled the world’s largest biomass power plant to run exclusively on poultry manure. The plant will convert a third of the nation’s chicken waste into energy while running at a capacity of 36.5 megawatts - enough to power 90,000 homes! 211 diggsA woman reports sensations in her missing arm thanks to a high-tech prosthetic. 137 diggsQGtkStyle made it’s way into the Qt snapshots this week, meaning it will become part of the Qt 4.5 release. Technical users can already compile and use it on their own desktop, but once Qt 4.5 is out it will simply replace Cleanlooks as the default application style Qt uses on GNOME desktops. 333 diggsSo here, we lovingly give you the bitchiest ladies in spandex 243 diggsI have zero interest in the league tempting fate and adding another game or two to the regular season, which it seems favorably inclined to do beginning in 2010 or 2011. 310 diggsAn asteroid cruising through the solar system six years ago seemed just another silent ship sailing in the eternal darkness, until it flared up with the startling brightness of a comet's halo. 283 diggsWe have joked about it in the past, but as our mailboxes get filled with clueless people and psychopaths' mails we will have to say it again: there's no chance that the Earth will cease to exist as CERN scientist activate the Large Hadron Collider this Wednesday. 288 diggsIn Smithville, N.J., a group devotes itself to looking for the elusive Jersey Devil, said to have haunted this area for centuries. 180 diggsZoologist Desmond Morris admits that his latest study has left him in awe of the power and potential of the human infant. 355 diggsWe would never glamorize criminals. We don't want any of our young fans to grow up to rob or steal, at least not from us. You know who we will glamorize? Super-villains. Those flamboyant, creative types who go above and beyond the call of duty. Way beyond. 320 diggsLet's face it, the default theme on current Ubuntu releases is more aimed at the (boring) business folks: no transparency, no effects, no shiny icons and cool wallpapers. That's why I'm going to walk you through some easy steps to customize your Ubuntu Gnome - for better usability and better looks (to impress your windows buddies?). 143 diggs"This is the next step after the Web," says David Colling, a scientist at Britain's Imperial College, which is contributing to the Grid. "Except that unlike the Web, you're sharing computing power and not files." 298 diggsKids like to play make believe and talk to imaginary friends. Parents like to pretend their kid is talking to a ghost if there's a TV deal in it. Welcome to the retarded world of Psychic Kids, an actual show on actual television. 187 diggsNationwide, Alaska and Hawaii remained the two states with gas prices still tracking above $4 a gallon. The cheapest gas was now found in New Jersey, where prices averaged $3.431 a gallon. Gas has fallen about 46 cents from the record high average of $4.114 that AAA reported on July 17, but they are still 83 cents above this time last year. 623 diggsA best man, allegedly raped by a stripper with a sex toy, had stepped in for the groom who "wasn't interested" in his bucks' party's strip show, a court has heard. A witness told the Melbourne Magistrates Court the alleged victim had been egged on by a cheering crowd of up to 30 men to perform with the hired stripper, Linda Maree Naggs, after ... 237 diggsThe Cyclone, the famous Coney Island roller coaster, and the 150-foot-tall Wonder Wheel, a Ferris wheel, are separately owned and landmarked by the city so they are unaffected by the closing. News that Sunday would be the last gasp for Dante's Inferno fun house, 22 other rides and three arcades drew hundreds of nostalgia-minded visitors... 415 diggsIt’s quite true about the saying - There’s no second chance at making a good first impression. Advertisement, regardless-ly online or offline, if they don’t catch your attention within seconds they are considered failed. Here’s 70 really creative advertisement that will make you look twice. 203 diggsTom Brady's buckled left knee looks disastrous for one team. The other 31 NFL teams aren't too broken up about it... 185 diggsAs fuel prices rise, some districts are updating an old method of getting children to school, by creating "walking schoolbuses," where students walk together in large groups supervised by an adult. 201 diggsGerman chemistry professor thinks it "quite plausible" that the "mini black holes" the CERN atom-smasher creates "will survive and grow exponentially and eat the planet from the inside" and has lodged an EU court lawsuit alleging that the project violates the right to life guaranteed under the European Convention of Human Rights. 210 diggsProsecutors in Russia want to ban the award-winning satirical U.S. cartoon South Park, calling the series extremist after receiving viewer complaints, a spokeswoman said on Monday. 297 diggsThe story of birds that don't fly just got a lot weirder. Ostriches, emus, kiwis and other winged non-flyers might seem to be birds of a feather, sharing similar evolutionary origins, but the story could turn out to be much weirder with perhaps numerous flying ancestors. 354 diggsCovered in frost and dripping in icicles, this plane resembles a frozen lolly more than a fighter jet.The F-4E Phantom fighter is being put through its paces at the brand new aircraft testing centre in Seosan, South Korea. 658 diggsThis information has been verified through the Wasilla Library Board’s official minutes. This is a list of books that then-mayor, Sarah Palin tried to ban from Wasilla library. 484 diggsOh Google, will you never stop surprising me? Turns out, back in 2007, Google put in a patent application for an wave-powered server farm. According to the patent, they would like to distribute data centers closer to users, but it is sometimes difficult to come across places to put the server farms and cheap electricity to power them. 215 diggs"[R]ight now, can you believe it, I am actually flying commercial," he explained. "That's how high gas prices are, OK? So I feel you." Then came the solution, "I want to give a shout out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters and all my brothers and sisters from all the countries that have oil, send me some oil for my jet" 291 diggsGlaskowsky takes Comcast to task over a misleading advertisement about its high-definition programming vs. DirecTV's. 243 diggsAccording to a new study coming out of Austrailia, just one can of the popular stimulant drink Red Bull can increase your risk of heart attack or stroke. The effect was seen even in young people. Red Bull is currently banned in Norway, Uruguay and Denmark because of health risks. 297 diggsGermany's Federal Office for Information Security says that Google's new browser Chrome "should not be used for surfing the Internet." The problem, according to a translation from Blogoscoped, is that joined with email and search, Chrome gives Google too much data about its users. The government also said Chrome should be avoided because its still 378 diggsThis astonishing Viking mega-robot, known as Little Big Man, is controlled by another robot nestled in a neon cave within the big Viking's radio cabinet chest. 387 diggsThe Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree, widely assumed to have legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet (2.4 m) of its base. The tree is located at the corner of Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, USA. The original tree fell in 1942; a new tree was grown from one of its acorns and planted in the same location. 312 diggsSpore seems to be having a rocky launch: gamers are fighting back over what they perceive as unacceptable DRM, carpet-bombing Amazon with one-star reviews. The uninspiring game play isn't making things better. 386 diggsA team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life. It's not as Frankensteinian as it sounds. Instead, a lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building simple cell models that have nearly grown into being called life. 371 diggsChildren are being held back at school because they are forced to memorise irregular spellings and learn how to use the apostrophe, a leading academic will claim. 325 diggsA few weeks ago I gave everyone a sneak peak of an upcoming guitar solo called Octane. Since then many people have asked me about where some of my influences for it came from; here’s a look at some face melting guitar solos that inspired me. 188 diggsIf you could design the perfect dog, what would it look like? While animal buyers often look closely at physical characteristics, behavioral traits can make the difference between a dog becoming a much loved and pampered family member, or a mistreated or neglected unwanted animal. 200 diggsThe new generation of inexpensive netbooks may be wonderful, but for my main desktop I want a real machine -- something I can open up, clean, and add to. So I was extremely tickled recently to trade for a new LinPC, an economical personal computer that features PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2008 preinstalled and ready to go. 1004 diggsNow lets see if anyone else reports it. 120 diggsThe electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. While the dream device remains on the drawing board, Plastic Logic will introduce publicly on Monday its version of an electronic newspaper reader: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look of paper 427 diggsThirty-two of the nation’s leading historians have sent letters to congressional leaders calling on them to strengthen the Presidential Records Act (PRA). 359 diggsThe Swedish-born entrepreneur (and founder of Virtutech) points out in a thoughtful post that the upcoming holiday buying season is a perfect opportunity for Apple to overhaul the set-top box that even Jobs admits has been less than a runaway hit — and Tuesday would be a perfect opportunity to unveil the new device. 157 diggsI just hope there's good 3G coverage in hell. 171 diggsFemale giant weta crickets are huge. At about 0.7 ounces (20 grams), they're one of the world's heaviest insects. But the males are about half their size. Now scientists know why. 816 diggsIt makes the questioning entirely at the discretion of the person being interviewed and their handlers. The interviewer has to be on their best behavior, at least until the last of the 'multiple interviews' because otherwise the subsequent sittings just won't happen. 296 diggsGoogle's Chrome is pretty good, but it could be a whole lot better. We've rounded up 10 fairly extensive ways to tweak it to make it an all-around better browser. 181 diggsThe best professional footballs to look out for in 2008. 366 diggsLike Apple, Microsoft is expected to announce this month a new family of Zune media players that will introduce some new features while adopting others that have been available on iPods since this time last year. 414 diggsA mysterious entity called American Rights Counsel demanded that 4,000 videos criticizing Scientology be pulled form YouTube late last week. After the counter-notices poured in, the videos went back up, but the war between Scientology and the mask-wearing group "Anonymous" appears to be heating up. Next battle: Broadway. 293 diggsHurricane Ike just rolled across Cuba, and soaked parts of Haiti - both regions still reeling from recent Hurricane Gustav. Ike appears to be weakening now, but is headed tward the Gulf Coast of the U.S., and may yet strengthen. The crew aboard the International Space Station was able to take a photo of Ike from 220 miles overhead last Thursday 637 diggsBed, Bath & Beyond refused to let some customers use the phone to call 911 after they saw a toddler locked in a hot car in the store's parking lot. The witnesses told the local news that the employees told them, "...You cannot call no one, what goes on in the parking lot is not our concern." 234 diggsThe problem is that most of these newspapers are not available online. We want to change that.Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. 242 diggsWho is Sarah Palin? The question itself is open-ended to such a degree that it primes the reader for a complex answer. But what if the explanation turned out to be less complicated than advertised? And is achieved by, say, looking at a record of statements and political behavior rather than psychoanalyzing the subject? Here is a brief scorecard. 227 diggsWhile every iPod has gotten a little bit bigger in storage and smaller in size, it has become a software-bulky device, an overweight ghost of its former understated brilliance. So whether or not we see the iPod touch nano tomorrow or not, it needs to happen soon. 434 diggset ready to finally chuck all those newspapers and books that you’ve been carrying because Plastic Logic has introduced a full-page sized ebook reader that doesn’t suck. 242 diggsKorn shell scripting is something all UNIX users should learn how to use. Shell scripting provides you with the ability to automate many tasks and can save you a great deal of time. It may seem daunting at first, but with the right instruction you can become highly skilled in it. This article will teach you to write your own Korn shells scripts. 694 diggs 392 diggsThe Church of Scientology in France and seven of its leaders is to be tried for alleged organised fraud. 312 diggsAMD’s triple-core Phenom X3 processor was designed as the firm’s answer to Intel’s 45 nm Core 2 Duo CPUs and as a buffer to protect the tray prices of its quad-core Phenom X4 models. 306 diggsIf Will Smith has been offered the part, I can't imagine he won't take it. He might be busy, but he's not going to say no because he's not white enough. Him taking the role would be a seriously big deal in the world of race and mass media, let alone our little nerd/comics world. 336 diggsIntel's new 80GB SSDs have launched today, and the company claims it's significantly improved performance, reliability, and power consumption compared to equivalent SSDs on the market. Intel's entry into this market, and the volume that implies, could mark a crucial turning point in SSD adoption. 196 diggsMOSCOW (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Russia want to ban the award-winning satirical U.S. cartoon "South Park," calling the series "extremist" after receiving viewer complaints, a spokeswoman said on Monday. 534 diggs“They’ve already got them in mind,” said Caine, when asked who he’d like to see take up arms against the Caped Crusader. “It’s Johnny Depp as The Riddler. And The Penguin is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I read it in the paper.” 159 diggsSeven-time champion Lance Armstrong will come out of retirement and compete in next year's Tour de France, VeloNews reported Monday, citing sources close to the situation. 223 diggsShoppers could soon be able to pay for goods and services using their fingerprints, or iris identification techniques. 304 diggsThe Wall Street Journal's "Deal Journal" blog says that the owner of the car dealership that serves as the backdrop to A&E's "King of Cars" will close his Hummer dealership and begin selling "Smart Cars." 380 diggsFor those who can’t imagine a universe without Stephen Colbert, there’s good news. The satirist’s DNA is going to be preserved for future generations, and perhaps future civilizations. Video game designer and soon-to-be space tourist Richard Garriott is adding Colbert’s genetic code to the Immortality Drive, the digital time capsule. 390 diggsMrBabyMan adresses a ton of controversial questions including scripts, and how he diggs all of those articles in a short amount of time. 378 diggsThe point is that Palin, and the circus she's brought to town, are simply a bountiful collection of small lies deliberately designed to distract the country from one big truth: the havoc that George Bush and the Republican Party have wrought, and that John McCain is committed to continuing. 199 diggsMr. Reynolds used a new classifieds site, Flugpo.com, that has more anti-crime measures in place, including a complete ban on erotic-services ads. "Why couldn't Craigslist follow suit?" he said. "That would go a long way toward eliminating crime on the site. Right now, it's like the Wild West on there. Everything is anonymous and anything goes... 468 diggsWatch the original Night of the Living dead in your browser. 528 diggsRather than saying “thanks but no thanks” and despite the fact that the bridge was not going to be built, Palin supported the construction of a $24 million “access” road that would lead to a nonexistent bridge. Federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government.” 131 diggsYesterday Tom Brady suffered a knee injury during a game against a high school team from Missouri. Now, reports have come out that Brady may be out for the entire season. 378 diggs Republican effort has failed to unseat the Alaska state senator overseeing the ethics investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she dismissed the state's public safety commissioner. 661 diggsGov. Ed Rendell decried a double standard in the treatment of Sarah Palin on Monday, saying that if it was he who was at the center of the "troopergate" investigation, the press would be calling for his head. 187 diggsWho are the winners and losers now that New England quarterback Tom Brady is out for the season with a left knee injury? We thought you'd never ask.... 411 diggsThe Emperor of Outworld is out for more than blood as Sub Zero and Liu Kang fight to the death. Brings a new meaning to "finish him". 305 diggsFormer Engadget editor Ryan Block has put it into practice by tapping former Gizmodo editor Brian Lam — now the site's editorial director — to help advise them on their new gadget startup gdgt. In doing so, Block has ended — or at least set aside — a long-term gadget-blog rivalry which frothed with animosity. 379 diggsOnce in orbit, the tardigrade box popped open. Some were exposed to low-level cosmic radiation, and others to both cosmic and unfiltered solar radiation. All were exposed to the frigid vacuum of space. 364 diggsMonday evening, the UN’s top Climate Scientist, Rajendra Pachuari, will speak in London at a meeting organized by Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), urging people to fight global warming by taking meat off their menu. 327 diggsAhh, church signs, they are always a source of joy. Apparently this congregation in Ohio loves that new Katy Perry song so much that they wanted to add a few extra lyrics to the hit single. 628 diggsYesteday, more news broke that says our favorite plant’s favorite chemical, tetrahydrocannibinol (THC), is getting closer to a medical breakthrough. Turns out that compounds in the drug have antibacterial properties that might even defeat antibiotic-resistant germs like MRSA. But that’s not all, of course—weed has applications that go far beyond. 220 diggsLet's take a look at the notable fso you can decide if it's worth taking another look at OpenOffice.org as an alternative to Microsoft Office. 190 diggsIf human memory were truly digital, it would have just received an upgrade from something like the capacity of a floppy disk to that of a flash drive. A new study found the brain can remember a lot more than previously believed. 503 diggsEarlier today, there was a run on shares of United Airlines' parent company, UAL, following news that the company was filing for bankruptcy. Unfortunately, that news was six years old. 891 diggs"John McCain is hardly a maverick when seven of his top campaign advisors are Washington lobbyists; he's no maverick when he votes with Bush ninety percent of the time; and Sarah Palin is no maverick, either. She was before the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it. Politicians lying about their records? You don't call that maverick..." 362 diggsA new study suggests that entertainment news shows such as The Daily Show or The Colbert Report may not be as influential in teaching voters about political issues and candidates as was previously thought. 389 diggsSince WiiWare hit the console earlier this year, the factory-installed 512MB of internal storage just isn't cutting it. Nintendo is essentially shooting itself in the foot: here we have all these new games to download and play, but only the capacity to store a limited number of them. 303 diggsWhat's that? Wii What? ...Zzzzzzzzzzz 323 diggsIs all design looking the same too you? Are you following graphic design trends subconsciously? 305 diggs#1 - Energy in a Bucket of Dirt 198 diggsThe Mars Phoenix Lander has been Twittering away its mission details since landing on Mars in May. But lately, you can see a sense of impending doom starting to creep in, slowly. 247 diggsJust like her speech to McCain, she gives a very strong speech about Palin and how dangerous she really is. 410 diggsAdhering to the 'hit-back' policy that dictates his campaign strategy, Barack Obama released a response ad Monday evening, declaring the Republican ticket a group of wanna-be mavericks 523 diggsNintendo's fifth video game console, the Wii, has only been on store shelves for less than two years (and that's not counting the months after its release where it was impossible to find in stores), but the its already building an extensive library of excellent games. Read on as GamePro names the 28 games every Wii owner should play! 180 diggsSome updates on recent script and bot use on Digg. 220 diggsSteven Spielberg and major Hollywood studios stole the plot from Hitchcock's classic 1954 film "Rear Window" in making last year's "Disturbia," a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday said. Dreamworks is accused of infringement and breach of contract for making Disturbia without first obtaining permission from the copyright holders. 137 diggsGreat Scott! Now... five times US Open champion Roger Federer has defeated Andy Murray in three straight sets. 2-6 5-7 4-6"Federer has been top class but you can't help but feel like Murray's time is yet to come in the sport." 153 diggsIf taking pleasure in seeing Patriots QB Tom Brady go down with a knee injury 20 minutes into New England’s first game of the 2008 season makes us assholes, well, toss our salad. And while you’re at it, check out five other sports injuries that put a smile on our face. 232 diggsArk's lexicon began as a web site (which is currently down) and quickly gained popularity. Rowling herself was once a way fan of the web site and has previously lavished it with praise, gave it an award in 2004, and even admitted to using it herself while she was writing some of the later books in the series. 247 diggsThe federal government has announced that it will be bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises that “own or guarantee almost half of the country’s $12 trillion in outstanding home mortgage debt,” making it potentially the “largest financial bailout” in U.S. history. 400 diggsA tiny, six-legged critter that can suspend all biological activity in extreme environments survived a journey to space that would have instantly killed any human and most other life forms. 200 diggsNot every game is destined to become an instant classic. Some franchises start a step or two from greatness, rightly or wrongly ignored by the masses before finally stumbling into the formula that puts it into the pantheon. Sometimes when that solution is finally reached, the originals are unearthed and hailed along with their better known sequels. 288 diggsThe biggest pain when Playing LoZ. 200 diggsWith his iTunes 8.0 reports receiving support over the weekend, Kevin Rose has gone on to publish an interface mockup of the new media cataloging software now expected for release Tuesday. 166 diggsUbuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next major version of Ubuntu will be called Jaunty Jackalope. Shuttleworth expects to see Ubuntu ship on millions of devices in the coming year. 200 diggsSince losing his hair to a serious illness as a young child, Dale Platts' New York Yankees cap has not only helped the 13-year-old cope with the cruelty of other children, but it also protects his head & lashless eyes from the sun. But the schoolboy has now been ordered to remove the cap after his school decided it went against its uniform policy. 223 diggsThe duality will forever exist when looking back on 1998, the happiest time in recent baseball history. It was baseball’s Summer of Love, wondrous and carefree, where drug use was ignored and life celebrated. Everyone, from baseball neophytes to lifers, got caught up in the back-and-forth home run duel between McGwire and Sammy Sosa as they chased 202 diggsBy Gary Sheffield (DET) off Gio Gonzalez (OAK) History is made - Some interesting numbers when you look close at this... 133 diggsLook around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There’s a whole planet beneath your feet, 6.6 sextillion tons of it, one trillion cubic kilometers of it. But how well do you know it? 141 diggsBody Found Near Campsite of Missing UFC Fighter, A body has been found near a California desert campsite where former Ultimate Fighting champion Evan Tanner stayed days before. 186 diggsOur Milky Way Galaxy is not alone. It is part of a gathering of about 25 galaxies known as the Local Group. Members include the Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M32, M33, the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, Dwingeloo 1, several small irregular galaxies, and many dwarf elliptical and dwarf spheroidal galaxies. 940 diggsObama calls out Palin and the GOP for mocking the constitution; "Don't mock the Constitution. Don't make fun of it. Don't suggest that it's not American to abide by what the founding fathers set up. It's worked pretty well for over 200 years." 321 diggs“Ads on the iPhone deliver strong engagement for advertisers with triple, on average, the already high click-through-rates seen on mobile,” the company claimed in a press release. If that is indeed turns out to be a sustainable metric, advertisers are likely to view as iPhone as platform worth supporting. 398 diggs 476 diggsIn the wake of Google's release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser, some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.
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