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Microsoft Live Labs Creates Web ‘Synth’ For 3-D Photo Tour

Microsoft Live Labs’ Photosynth turns multiple photos of a site into a 3-D scene you can virtually “walk” through on the Web. The service is a dramatic new way to use your photos and to share them with others, writes Walter S. Mossberg.

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First Test of Google’s New Browser

Google’s new Chrome Web browser will make using the Internet faster and less frustrating, but this first version is rough around the edges and lacks some features, says Walt Mossberg in the first hands-on review.

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Symantec Rewrites Its Security Suite To Curb Nuisances

Symantec’s Norton Internet Security 2009 isn’t perfect, but is fast, simple and unobtrusive.

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Apple Polishes Popular MacBook for a Higher Price

Apple’s MacBook laptop, the company’s low-end portable computer aimed at average consumers, isn’t just any old product. It’s the best-selling Macintosh in history, at a time when Mac sales are growing much faster than sales of PCs in the U.S. overall. And, according to the sales-research organization NPD Group, the midrange model of the MacBook has been the single best-selling laptop of any brand in U.S. retail stores for the past five months.

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Synchronizing Your Bookmarks on All Your PCs

Walt reviews Foxmarks, a tool for synchronizing your bookmarks automatically among all your computers, Windows or Mac, and across all the main brands of Web browsers.

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New Safari Browser Succeeds at Speed, Flops on Features

Walt reviews the latest version of Apple’s Safari browser, which hopes to overtake rival browsers Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

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Microsoft Ups Ante With New Browser

Internet Explorer 8 is more stable than its predecessor and packed with valuable new features, but it still can’t match its browser rivals in speed and performance.

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