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Tweetbot is the latest Twitter app for the iPhone and one that’s been getting some buzz since its debut this week. Available from Tapbots, Tweetbot gives iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users yet another alternative to Twitter’s official mobile app and other Twitter mobile clients. And though it’ll cost you $1.99, Tweetbot offers a nicely [...]

Mozilla is reviewing a final draft of its baseline policies to address problems in the way that Internet certificates are issued. The browser maker wants certificate authorities (CAs) that issue certificates to adopt a standard that’s been dubbed “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (PDF), published by the Certificate and Browser [...]

U.S. online advertising revenue has hit an all-time high, the Interactive Advertising Bureau reported yesterday. According to the IAB, which enlisted PricewaterhouseCoopers to help prepare the results, online ad spending hit $26 billion last year in the U.S., representing a 15 percent gain year over year. In the fourth quarter alone, advertisers spent $7.45 billion [...]

Comcast is now delivering ultra high-speed Internet service to more than 40 million homes around the U.S., the company announced today. Dubbed Extreme 105, the offering provides customers with 105Mbps download speeds and up to 10Mbps upload speeds. The service is available in several major markets, including San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, the [...]

Microsoft and Google each grabbed a tiny sliver more of the U.S. search market last month, according to ComScore. Both companies gained three-tenths of a point of market share in March, compared with February. Overall, Google sites accounted for 65.7 percent of the 16.9 billion searches in the U.S. last month, ComScore said yesterday. Microsoft [...]

Somewhere between a nightly and a beta lies Firefox Aurora, Mozilla’s first public browser under its new publishing schedule. Announced yesterday, Firefox Aurora for Windows (download), Mac (download), and Linux (download), is most analogous to the intent behind the Google Chrome developer’s channel (download Windows | Mac | Linux): to provide a place where users [...]

The latest stable version of Opera 11 debuts today with a faster Turbo, an expanded Speed Dial, and some plug-in tweaks. Opera 11.10 for Windows (download), Mac (download), and Linux (download), also makes a handful of other changes to the browser, notably adding in more HTML5 support, mail client improvements, an updated rendering engine, and [...]

After announcing two new smartphones today, Nokia has released stats about its Ovi Store. According to the company, its app store is marking 5 million downloads each day. Owners of some of its latest phones, including the Nokia N8, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7, and the Nokia E7, account for 15 percent of all the daily [...]

Xobni co-founder Matt Brezina is launching a fun and clever product today to let iPhone users send real, physical postcards directly from your iPhone (or from the Web). Postagram is the app. Sincerely is the new company he started to create it. Postagram uses the Instagram API. It requires that users have an Instagram login [...]

Microsoft’s Bing captured 30 percent of all searches run in the U.S. last month, market researcher Experian Hitwise said yesterday. Looking at the U.S. search engine market in March, Experian Hitwise found that the number of searches at sites powered by Bing rose by 5 percent since February. That includes searches run on Bing’s own [...]