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  About time: Joost
  looks to the browser

  Company's desktop client failed to catch on with the public, so the Web video service is retooling, but is it too late to catch up to Hulu and YouTube?
  • Hands-on with the new Joost

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  Revamped Picasa site knows your face

  Face recognition technology on the way to Google's Picasa Web Albums lets users find and name people in their photos. But how well does it actually work?

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• Chrome's JavaScript challenge to Silverlight

  The advent of Google's Chrome browser, software pros say, should spur a big speedup for JavaScript, which would raise its standing against Microsoft's Silverlight technology.
  • Full Chrome coverage

  (Posted in Business Tech by Suzanne Tindal)

• Apple watchers spot 'iPod Nano' pix, iTunes hints

  The rumor mill has long been predicting a longer, leaner new version of the iPod Nano, and now it's conjuring up some pictures.

  (Posted in Apple by Jonathan Skillings)

• Security firm spots Chrome 'SaveAs' flaw

  Bach Khoa Internet Security of Vietnam reports that the new Google browser is susceptible to a critical buffer-overflow flaw.
  • Security Bites podcast: The security of Chrome

  (Posted in Security by Jonathan Skillings)

• At 10 years old, whither Google?

  Daniel Sieberg of CBS News looks at how the company grew exponentially from start-up to superstar and part of our culture, but what's ahead?
  • Why I'm passing on Google's 10th anniversary

  (Posted in Digital Media by CBS Interactive staff)

• Mozilla releases second Firefox 3.1 alpha

  Added features include support for a new video tag element introduced with the HTML 5 standard, along with some speed enhancements.

  (Posted in Webware by Renai LeMay)

• Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

  Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the TiVo HD XL, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H50, and the Dish Network's newest digital TV converter box.

• NetSuite boasts of Google Chrome support

  All NetSuite's customers will be able to use Google's browser by mid-October. What are the odds any are actually clamoring for it?

  (Posted in Business Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Start-up launches spectrum marketplace

  A new company called Spectrum Bridge has launched a Web site for buying and selling wireless spectrum licenses.

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

• Microsoft adding to its Labs collection

  Startup Labs will be an effort under Ray Ozzie, joining others including Live Labs, adCenter Labs, and Office Labs.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• At ESPN, play-by-play goes virtual

  ESPN is debuting technology with Electronic Arts that enables sports commentators to interact with 3D virtual players.
  (From The New York Times)

• Behind the prototyping of 'Spore'

  Many of the components of Will Wright's highly anticipated evolution game started out as small concept projects that are now available to the public.
  • GameSpot's 'Spore' review
  • Why EA is smiling today
  • Will Wright on the origins of 'Spore'
  • Images: The art of 'Spore' prototypes

  (Posted in Gaming and Culture by Daniel Terdiman)

• Microsoft reworks Windows' image

  After letting Apple's attack ads go unanswered, Redmond embarks on a tough journey to wrest back control of what Windows stands for.
  • Windows chief on Seinfeld ads
  • Reisinger: Seinfeld ad was superb

  (Posted in Microsoft by Ina Fried)

• Samsung contemplating SanDisk acquisition

  South Korean consumer electronics giant is considering a buyout of the chipmaker to reduce its NAND flash memory costs, according to PaidContent.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Dawn Kawamoto)
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