The Windows Mobile 7 group is split up into many smaller ones, two of which are the search and browser teams. According to job postings on careers.microsoft.com, both teams are looking for Software Design Engineer in Test, also known as internal testers, to help nail down the problems during the development of the next release of the Windows Mobile operating system, after 6.5 devices begin to arrive in the coming months. We already know that the latest mobile implementations of Bing and Internet Explorer will be making an appearance on the Zune HD, but what the teams are doing here goes beyond that.

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Yesterday Sony made the new PlayStation 3 design official, and launched quite the offensive to make sure everyone received the message: this is the new hardware, $300 is the new price, and nothing has been cut to get there… except for Linux support.

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Few mobile devices currently have support for Flash, and absolutely none work with Silverlight content. That’s going to change in the next few years, and we’re going to see adoption begin picking up as soon as next year, when Adobe starts pushing Flash 10 out on Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Palm webOS. Microsoft still hasn’t released anything resembling Silverlight Mobile but the rumors are starting to trickle in. Both Flash and Silverlight support are going to arrive for the BlackBerry browser next year, according to The Boy Genius Report:

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With the official announcement of the newly redesigned PS3 out of the way, John Koller, Sony’s director of hardware marketing, sat down with us for a few minutes to answer our—and your—pressing questions about the hardware. Can you still change out your hard drive? Will there be a power brick? Let’s find out.

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Competition in the browser space breeds better performance. And with Google getting into the browser game with Chrome, all of the developers have stepped up their game. With that in mind, we decided to survey the current browser landscape on Mac OS X to see which offers the best JavaScript performance. Given that Chrome for Mac OS X has yet to hit 1.0, we decided to go with the latest nightly builds for both it and Safari (WebKit), as well as the latest Mozilla alpha (3.6a1), Camino beta, and Opera beta.

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Ever since the launch of the original iPod, Apple has scheduled a special press event for music-related products right around the time the young’uns head back to school. The same is expected for this year, and All Things D has taken a gamble on September 9 based on information from an inside source.

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Laptops are more prevalent today than they have ever been. Everywhere you look, there are notebooks of every kind—tiny netbooks, monster laptops, and everything in between. With such an explosion in notebook use, there are that many more targets for thieves looking to pawn our stuff for a quick buck, or even worse, steal our data for more nefarious uses.

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Last week, the respected Jon Peddie Research Group released a major report on the history, technology, and future of multi-GPU computing that predicts the now-esoteric technology will experience a major renaissance by 2012, with two-thirds of new desktop systems multi-GPU capable, and fully 30 percent packing two GPUs (not 50 percent, as has been reported elsewhere).  This is a major surprise to Ars, and we’re skeptical of JPR’s reasoning.
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Keymote, a brand new iPhone application from Iced Cocoa, is much more than just a remote for you Mac. The application is an extended keyboard and a shortcut aide. It’s a must-have utility for anyone who has a Mac hooked up to a TV, uses complicated keyboard shortcuts, or needs to control a Mac from another room. It isn’t the first application of its class to grace the App Store, but it may be the most polished, most useful, and most attractive.

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