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Windows 7 Due In Late ‘09 With Touch Screen

Similar to iPhone’s touch-screen technology, Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, will equip with Microsoft’s Surface technology that been used on tabletop computers. Check a Vista blog and a video demonstration of this multitouch technology…

Source: Ballmer and Gates on Windows 7

Falun Gong Take Part In Memorial Day In NYC Chinatown

Thousands of Falun Gong followers walking through Chinatown in Manhanttan today…and across the river, in Flushing, hundreds of Chinese protest against Falun Gong in their 9th day.

AppleInsider: New MacBook Coming Soon

The update version of MacBook will be available in the third quater of this year according to Apple’s overseas source suppliers. Like Apple’s aluminum iMacs and MacBook Air, the company is using Aircraft-grade aluminum and stainless steel for this update model.

Both the MacBook and MacBook Pro are expected to receive “Montevina”-based processors from the Intel’s upcoming Centrino 2 platform, which require a new “Socket B” logic-board. The second-gen mobile Penryn chips boast a 1066MHz front-side bus and clock between 2.26GHz and 2.8GHz.

iPhone 2.0 Comfirmed To Release June 9th Worldwide

Finally confirmed a release date for iPhone 2.0 since the rumor spread last week ’cause of unavailable iPhone on Apple’s online stores… So far there are 40 countries (see map below provided FORTUNE article) have iPhone deals; some countries have multiple carriers for iPhones.

Hungarian Student Egg Attacked Ballmer…But Missed

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer goes for cover in Budapest to escape egg attack from one student from Corvinus University of Budapest while he is doing a speech there…

This is not the first time that Microsoft bosses got attacked outside the United States… In 1998, then Microsoft CEO Bill Gates got hit with a cake when he visited Belgium.

Google On iPhone Applications

Google aims at creating native iPhone applications… when Apple’s App Store and iPhone 2.0 firmware launch. According to Google, the company will create a native iPhone application that is similar to Google Map.

China Mourning Earthquake Victims

On Monday, China began a three-day national mourning for 32,476 people killed in a powerful earthquake which struck Sichuan Province on May 12.

Mozilla Launched Firefox 3 RC1

Mozilla released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) earlier than expected… I updated it from Firefox 3 Beta. However, some of add-ons may not work with this candidate; and one of them is de.licio.us. (see RC1 release notes for details).

Firefox RC1 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux and available in 41 languages.