Yes, Spotify Is Headed to the Web. No, Spotify Isn’t Cutting Its Prices.

Spotify isn’t planning on cutting the price of its mobile, ad-free service now or in the forseeable future.
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Google’s iPhone Tracking

Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers — tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

Going Back to Internet Explorer

Walt answers a reader’s question about security holes in Web browsers.

Focus! No Willpower Required.

Here’s a look at a few methods to help you avoid distractions while on the computer. These range from Web browser tools to computer software programs to controls built into the operating system.
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Google Unveils a Laptop With Its Brain in the Cloud

While Google’s Chromebook, a radical new laptop entirely dedicated to cloud computing, may be the future of computing, it’s too buggy today to be relied upon by mainstream users.
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A Social Web Browser

Katie tests the iPhone app for RockMelt, a new Web browser for the serious social network user.
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New, Lean Firefox 4: Re-Built to Play Catch-Up

Mozilla’s new Firefox 4 Web browser is a sleeker and faster improvement on previous editions, but most of its new features are nothing new in the field.
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Microsoft Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to Browser

A new version of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer to be released Tuesday will be the first major Web browser to include a do-not-track tool that helps people keep their online habits from being monitored. Microsoft’s decision to include the tool in Internet Explorer 9 means Google Inc. and Apple Inc. are the only big providers of browsers that haven’t yet declared their support for a do-no-track system in their products.

Maybe UltraViolet, the Ginormous Media Cloud Locker Thingy, Won't Fail, After All. What Do You Say, Steve Jobs?

A big “everyone but Apple” coalition of hardware and software companies might be able to make a cloud-based media service work. If Apple will play along.

Google Goes To the Cloud For New Idea In PC System

Walt tests an early-stage version of Google’s Chrome OS for computers–an attempt to challenge the Microsoft-Apple duopoly. One drawback of the new operating system, due next summer, is having to give up familiar local programs and dwell in the cloud.
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Nokia Noshes Novarra

Google Uncrates Chrome