Google Chrome 3.0 arrives Google Tuesday launched Version 3 of its Chrome Web browser, which keeps the pressure on competing tools by boosting JavaScript performance by 25% vs. the latest stable release. Forget the Emmys, take our TV technology quiz From "The Six Million Dollar Man" to "Gilligan's Island" to "iCarly," computers and other technology have played a starring role in popular TV shows. News podcast: Network World 360 Three data storage start-ups have landed more than $28 million in first-round funding from venture capitalists, a rare feat in an economy that has punished new vendors looking to obtain financing. Also, malware ghouls took just a few hours to begin preying on the death of actor Patrick Swayze with a new version of a familiar phony anti-virus scam. (6:11) VMware completes purchase of Java vendor SpringSource VMware has completed its acquisition of enterprise Java vendor SpringSource, a $362 million deal designed to help customers build, run and manage applications to be run on cloud-based platforms. Five Possibilities for the Future of Facebook Now that Facebook has hit the 300 million members mark and shown that its free service can rope in dough, we have to wonder what will happen to the social networking giant 10 years down the road. Here are five possibilities for the future of Facebook. MIT creates nanotube process that could shrink, speed chips An MIT research team said they have found a new way to create the carbon nanotubes needed to build smaller and faster processors sought by manufacturers and users. Laptop Hunters Didn't Know They Were In A Commercial Wondered what really was happening in those Microsoft Windows PC "laptop hunter" commercials? Are those people real? Why were they so surprised when they got the money at the end of the commercial after selecting a Windows PC? Didn't they know they were in a commercial? You can get a glimpse of what was happening behind the scenes in this online Microsoft video. T-Mobile backs off plan to charge $1.50 for paper bill Under the threat of a class-action lawsuit and battered by a barrage of negative publicity -- not the least of which occurred here at Buzzblog -- T-Mobile has decided that its threat to gouge customers an additional $1.50 per month to continue getting a paper bill wasn't worth the pixels it was written on. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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