The open and free alternative to the Chrome-specific Web Store is now almost upon us! Developers, feast your eyes on the first milestone release of Mozilla's Web Application project.
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Internet Explorer 9 is "downloading like hotcakes,” if they would be downloadable, that is. After almost six months since IE9 made its debut into Beta, one thing is clear, users worldwide have worked out quite an appetite for the next major iteration of IE.

IE9 was downloaded in excess of 25 million times between September 15th, 2010 and February 10th, 2011 when the browser graduated to Release Candidate (RC) stage.
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New York City has launched a new smartphone application that helps users find free condoms in their area.
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At the Mobile World Congress today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Windows Phone director Joe Belfiore showed what to expect from Windows Phone 7 later this year. We finally have a timeframe for the copy-and-paste update—it will arrive in the first two weeks of March—and we also got a first glimpse at a major update due in the second half of this year. The headline features of this big update are multitasking support for third-party applications and a new Web browser based on Internet Explorer 9.
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It's happened. Former Microsoft exec and current Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has married his future and his past in the holy matrimony of a "strategic alliance." Windows Phone is becoming Nokia's "principal smartphone strategy," but there's a lot more to this hookup -- scope out the official press release just after the break. ...