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Firefox 3 to be released 6/17/08
After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser, period.
The SUV is officially dethroned
After reigning supreme for the better part of two decades, the mighty SUV has at long last fallen, done in by mounting fuel prices that have consumers embracing small cars and automakers scrambling to build them.
Is anyone really surprised? Gas is $3.99 at my local station. Pretty soon, we may be remembering the good old days when gas was less than $4/gallon.
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WARGAMES and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983
Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the release of WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. In case you've never seen it before, WarGames is about David Lightman, a high school student who's an unmotivated slacker in class but a first-rate computer hacker at home.
Google to offer free, real-time stock quotes
We're very excited to tell you that real-time quotes on NASDAQ securities are now available on Google Finance. This is an important (and way overdue) development for everyone who consumes financial information. Historically, real-time stock data was not freely and widely accessible.