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Monday, 26th January 2009

Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1: Promises Faster and Safer Browsing

Microsoft today announced the first (and probably only) release candidate of Internet Explorer 8. In terms of its look and feel, IE8 feels a lot like IE7, though Microsoft has made a lot of changes under the hood. IE8 features a new rendering engine, support for CSS 2.1, and a 'smart address bar' that is very similar to Firefox's 'awesome bar.' IE8…

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Could FeedBurner Be Replaced by PostRank.com?

RSS analystics service PostRank.com is putting out a call to feed publishers for feature requests for a new service that will aim to replace the near-dead FeedBurner. The company's initial proposal looks far, far cooler than anything FeedBurner ever did - but after a Google acquisition turned Feedburner from every blogger's best friend into an…

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Obama's Social Network Being Used to Spread Malware

Social media has been exhilarating so far - but are you ready to see it become a much bigger target for nefarious forces as it becomes more mainstream? WebSense Security Labs reports that the President's pre-election social network My.BarackObama.com, is being used by at least a handful of parties to spread malicious Trojans to unsuspecting…

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The Services that Power ReadWriteWeb

At ReadWriteWeb our mission is to explore the very latest web technology products and trends. We like to test out all the new web apps and spot the trends before others, and we're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So once a week we write a post about them; here's who they are, what they do and what they've been up…

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Google: Setbacks for Spammers in 2008, But Growth Continues

Spammers are a resilient bunch. Even if you manage to shut down one major spam network, others will gladly jump in and fill the void. According to Google, that's exactly what happened in 2008. After the rogue web hosting firm McColo was shut down in November, spam level dropped rapidly. By now, however, spam levels are rising again and are up by…

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