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<title><![CDATA[SolarPHP 1.0 Released@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[HvitRavn writes "SolarPHP 1.0 stable was released by Paul M. Jones today. SolarPHP is an application framework and library, and is a serious contender alongside Zend Framework, Symphony, and similar frameworks. SolarPHP has in the recent years been the cause of heated debate in the PHP community due to provocative benchmark results posted on Paul M. Jones' blog."
   
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:02:23 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Html5media ? JavaScript to Enable ?video? Element for All Browsers@Daring Fireball]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:03:09 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[adeelarshad82 writes "After eight years of development, remote gaming service OnLive is scheduled to roll out on June 17 for Windows and Mac. The company also announced its service pricing: users will need to pay $14.95 per month, which will allow them access to the service. However, the company did not disclose the price to rent or purchase games. 'It is partnering in this launch with publishers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, 2K Games, THQ and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The games will also include new releases like Mass Effect 2, Borderlands, Assassin&rsquo;s Creed II, as well as a bunch of other titles. Perlman anticipates anywhere from a dozen to 25 titles to be available at launch time, and more after that, depending on how negotiations with other publishers proceed.'"
   
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:02:15 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Potential console killer OnLive to go live June 17@News items | ZDNet]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-402271.html]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[OnLive, a streaming video game service that, if properly implemented, could threaten traditional console makers. by Daniel Terdiman  CNET News]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:20:15 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Use one bookmark to load different versions of a site@MacOSXHints.com]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have several sites that I access on both my iPhone and desktop, so I like to have quick access to them via the Bookmarks Bar. However, these sites have different versions for the desktop, for mobiles, and, in some cases, yet another version for the iPhone. Usually, the full version doesn't work so well on the iPhone, and the iPhone version is undesirable on the desktop.

Instead of creating a plain bookmark, a little Javascript can make a bookmark context-sensitive, and allow you to have one bookmark that opens the right version of a page, depending on which platform you're browsing from. The basic idea is to use some client-side Javascript to check the browser's platform (a.k.a. operating system), and then tell the browser to access a URL based on that check.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:30:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle@Wired Top Stories]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Browsing the web on one of Amazon?s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It?s clunky and has only limited support for web standards and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to the job listings on the company?s website.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:25:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Blog - How to Build a Superluminal Computer@Technology Review RSS Feeds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Physicists have come up with a way to process information faster than the speed of light. But what could they do with such a hypercomputer? 
The speed of light represents one of the fundamental limits of the laws of physics. Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, right?  


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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:10:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Blog - How to build a superluminal computer@Technology Review RSS Feeds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Physicists have come up with a way to process information faster than the speed of light. But what could they do with such a hypercomputer? 
The speed of light represents one of the fundamental limits of the laws of physics. Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, right?  


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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:10:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apache bug prompts update advice@News items | ZDNet]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-401104.html]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. by Colin Ho,ZDNet.com.au]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:02:12 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Serious Apache Exploit Discovered@Slashdot]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/h5FejX6Yjtw/Serious-Apache-Exploit-Discovered]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[bennyboy64 writes "An IT security company has discovered a serious exploit in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. ZDNet reports the vulnerability exists in Apache's core mod_isapi module. By exploiting the module, an attacker could remotely gain system privileges that would compromise data security. Users of Apache 2.2.14 and earlier are advised to upgrade to Apache 2.2.15, which fixes the exploit."
Note: according to the advisory, this exploit is exclusive to Windows.
   
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:02:15 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Correcting Poor Typing Technique?@Slashdot]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1YNYd_c16nI/Correcting-Poor-Typing-Technique]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "When beginning to use keyboards I did not pay much attention to touch typing technique. Instead, I eventually achieved decent rates by simply doing what felt natural to me. These days my qwerty typing speed is in the range of 90-110 WPM, probably more toward the lower end. While this isn't too shabby, I feel some awkwardness in my technique (such as not using my little and ring fingers when I really should). Has anyone been in a similar situation, wanted to fix it, and actually done so? What do you reckon is the best way to fix half-broken typing? Touch training sessions? Should I switch to Dvorak and pretty much learn typing from scratch, but properly this time?"
   
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:02:27 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Copy a file to all subfolders of a folder with one command@MacOSXHints.com]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=8016d646906b8e906287ec16ef8c7868]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I was installing a demo of some web-based help desk software, and this particular package used encrypted PHP files. With my hosting company, I have to place a php.ini file in every directory that contains encrypted files, or the site won't work. This particular package had hundreds of directories, buried in folders and subfolders, and I was dreading the task of copying this one file into each of them.

A tip from my friend James pointed me to the solution, in the form of Smiling Dragon's reply in this thread over on the Unix/Linux forums. Assuming the file exists in the parent directory, then this command does the trick:

find . -type d -exec cp php.ini {}/ &#092;;

This worked perfectly, and incredibly quickly -- at first I thought it had failed, but a quick sample of a deeply-buried folder showed that the file was ...

  
  
  
  
  


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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:30:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Chrome Beta Adds Privacy Controls, Translation Option@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[billandad writes "Anyone would think the timing was deliberate; just as Microsoft is forced into giving users the option to switch from IE via the browser ballot screen, so Google introduces a new Chrome beta with enhanced privacy features to chisel away at Microsoft's market share. '... you can control how browser cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups are handled on a site-by-site basis. For example, you can set up cookie rules to allow cookies specifically only for sites that you trust, and block cookies from untrusted sites.' The new beta also adds language detection, and will prompt the user to translate a page if it's written in a foreign tongue."
   
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:02:29 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[JohnWilliams writes "The Sony PlayStation Network appears to be inaccessible to older ('phat') PS3 units. Players cannot play games that require a connection, even in single-player, offline mode, e.g. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Also, the system date resets to January 1, 2000. Sony is 'looking into it.' Speculation abounds that it is a bug related to 2010 being incorrectly flagged as a leap year. The newer PS3 Slim models seem to be working properly."
   
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:02:22 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cute baby video wins battle against music label 
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<description><![CDATA[Reuters - How much should a copyright owner pay for improperly telling a web site to remove content?]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:28:58 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hackers Target Tsunami Search Results@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[xsee writes "Only hours after the earthquake and resulting tsunami from Chile, hackers began manipulating search results to direct people seeking information on the event to infected webpages. Exercise caution as to where you get information on this tragedy. Chester Wisniewski describes what happened after he saw a suspicious site listed second on a Google search: 'It appears to be a normal website with information and videos about different Asian tsunamis over the past few years. It is difficult to tell whether this particular page was SEO-optimized, or was an innocent victim of a malicious script. SophosLabs got back to me that this page contains some obfuscated malicious JavaScript that we detect as MAL/ObfJS-R. This script was appended after the normal code on the page'"
   
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:02:07 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the minister attempting to ram the great firewall of Oz down everyone's throat has been removing all traces of the unpopular legislation from his main website with a javascript filter. From the article:'It was revealed today a script within the minister's homepage deliberately removes references to internet filtering from the list. In the function that creates the list, or "tag cloud," there is a condition that if the words "ISP filtering" appear they should be skipped and not displayed.' Bear in mind, this is the same minister that tried to get the ISP of tech forum Whirlpool to pull the site after users there posted a response email from the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority)."
   
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:02:22 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Opera 10.50 Beta Brings Faster JavaScript, More@PCWorld Latest Technology News]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=4fc0d36cf4f302b355a1c424107b824b]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The folks at Opera might have had to spend some time working around restrictions to port their browser to the iPhone, but when it comes to the desktop there are...

  
  
  
  
  


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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:30:19 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Database Security Tips for Enterprises@eWeek - RSS Feeds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the cost of data breaches continuing to go up, the need to properly secure your database has never been clearer. Locking down the database layer, however, is no simply task. There are a number of different aspects that must be considered and steps database administrators should take. In discussions with eWEEK, experts from database security firms Guardium -- now part of IBM -- and Application Security served up some tips for enterprises to keep in mind to secure their data.   -  ...


      
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:22:39 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Zend adds code-tracing to PHP Web app server 
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<description><![CDATA[InfoWorld - PHP development tools maker Zend Technologies announced on Wednesday general availability of its Zend Server 5.0 PHP Web application server, featuring Code Tracing technology intended to improve problem resolution times.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:12:39 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apache Web Server Turns 15@eWeek - RSS Feeds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Apache Software Foundation has announced that its Apache HTTP Web Server has turned 15.   -  The Apache Software Foundations Apache HTTP Web server has turned 15.
The famed Apache Web server was launched on Feb. 23, 1994, Apache officials said. It was the ASF's first project and it became the world's most popular Web server software within the first six months of its inception. The Apache ...


      
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:30:21 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Managing software legal compliance@Latest from Computerworld]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the age of open source and large-scale outsourcing, ascertaining the legal compliance of software is just as important as assuring the quality before pressing it into production. Numerous legal cases have highlighted the business risks and enormous costs incurred when compliance is not done properly -- costs stemming from judicial procedures, recalls, fixing issues post-release and missed market opportunities.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:40:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gadget E-Waste Poses Significant Risks, U.N. Warns 
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<description><![CDATA[NewsFactor - A sharp rise in the sale of consumer gadgets around the globe will pose serious environmental and public-health risks over the next 10 years unless action is taken to properly collect and recycle their materials, according to a report from the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). The products range from computers, printers and mobile phones to music devices, electronic toys, and televisions.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:53:53 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Officers Lose 243 Homeland Security Guns@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a screw up so big it could only be brought to you by the government of a famous athlete, 243 guns were lost by Homeland Security agencies between 2006 and 2008. 179 guns, were lost "because officers did not properly secure them," an inspector general report said. One of the worst examples of carelessness sites a customs officer who left a firearm in an idling vehicle in the parking lot of a convenience store. The vehicle was stolen while the officer was inside. "A local law enforcement officer later recovered the firearm from a suspected gang member and drug smuggler," the report said.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:02:26 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Logan's Run" Syndrome In Programming@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ian Lamont writes "InfoWorld has an interesting analysis of the reasons behind the relative dearth of programmers over the age of 40. While some people may assume that the recession has provided a handy cover for age discrimination, a closer look suggests that it's the nature of IT itself to push its elderly workers out, in what the article describes as a 'Logan's Run'-like marketplace. A bunch of factors are listed as reasons, including management's misunderstanding of the ways in which developers work: 'Any developer can tell you that not all C or PHP or Java programmers are created equal; some are vastly more productive or creative. However, unless or until there is a way to explicitly demonstrate the productivity differential between a good programmer and a mediocre one, inexperienced or nontechnical hiring managers tend to look at resumes with an eye for youth, under the "more bang for the buck" theory. Cheaper young 'uns will work longer hours and produce more code. The very concept of viewing experience as an asset for raising productivity is a non-factor &mdash; much to the detriment of the developer workplace.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:02:20 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google CEO Preaches 'Mobile First'@PCWorld Latest Technology News]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google CEO Eric Schmidt put mobile devices squarely at the center of the computing universe in his first keynote at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

  
  
  
  
  


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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:44:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Office Tips: Work More Efficiently in Word@Latest from Computerworld]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's Word-tip week here at Hassle-Free PC. I'll tell you how to print multiple copies of specific pages, strip out hyperlinks, add filler text, and use keyboard shortcuts to change the font size for selected type. Want more tips for Microsoft Office? Read "Get More From Your Mouse," "Tips for Windows 7, Word 2007, and More," and "Cure an Insomniac PC and Other Tips."]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:22:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Does Microsoft Finally Have a Phone Worth Buying?@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has finally shown "Windows Phone 7 Series" and it's supposed to be a completely new smartphone OS. A phone from Microsoft to get excited about that is going to work properly and take on the iPhone's world domination? "Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:02:06 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Astronauts Having Trouble With Tranquility Module@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Coldeagle writes "Astronauts ran into trouble while trying to connect up the new Tranquility module onto the ISS. A critical insulating cover didn't fit quit right: 'The fabric, multilayered cover is supposed to go between Tranquility and its observation deck, but the metal bars are not locking down properly because of interference from a hand rail or some other structure at the hatch.' One has to wonder if this is another imperial/metric snafu."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:01:59 +0100]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Opera 10.50 Beta Out, With Competitive JavaScript@Slashdot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Opera has released its 10.5 beta (for Windows only; Linux and Mac coming). Opera calls 10.5 "the fastest browser on earth," but the jury is out on this claim. WebMonkey says that the new beta feels snappy in their informal testing. Both CNET and ZDNet ran two quick benchmarks that measure JavaScript performance, SunSpider and V8. ZDNet found Opera beating out Chrome in SunSpider but lagging in V8. CNET found Chrome ahead in both tests. What is clear however is that Opera's Carakan JavaScript engine has made up much of the ground in the performance wars; The Reg estimates that 10.5 is seven times faster in the JavaScript stakes than Opera's shipping 10.1 release.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:02:40 +0100]]></pubDate>
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