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As PC makers flood the market with new laptops based on the Intel Core i processors, anticipation of a refresh of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air builds every week. Here’s a short MacBook wish list that may serve as a temporary salve to soothe the anxious Apple crowd. The truism nothing succeeds like success applies in spades to the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lineups. Apple has redefined laptop computing and spawned me-too designs from j...

First, Facebook dethroned Google as the most trafficked web site in the United States, and now the social networking community has proven to have an extremely loyal following among news readers, potentially threatening the dominant position held by Google News. So says a recent Hitwise survey. “A few weeks ago when I posted my blog entry about Facebook being the largest news reader, I received a few comments and emails noting that visitors...

Microsoft’s next-generation Internet Explorer 9 browser may not be anywhere close to competition, but you can test drive a “platform preview” of the software that provides a taste of IE9′s capabilities. So what’s the deal with Redmond’s upcoming browser, and how does it differ from IE8 and worthy competitors such as Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera Software’s Opera, and Apple’...

BEIJING – China without Google — a prospect that looks increasingly likely — could mean no more maps on mobile phones. A free music service that has helped to fight piracy might be in jeopardy. China’s fledgling Web outfits would face less pressure to improve, eroding their ability to one day compete abroad. Chinese news reports say Google Inc. is on the verge of making good on a threat to shutter its China site, Google.cn, because ...

The tech industry wants Google to deliver an iPhone “killer,” and continues to be disappointed that Google doesn’t share that interest. The reaction to a report issued Tuesday by Flurry Analytics managed to completely overlook some interesting news–the Android-based Motorola Droid outsold the original iPhone over the same period of time following their respective launches–to focus instead on the sales numbers for th...