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Interview: Facebook engineering VP talks ConnectToday

We had a chance to chat with Facebook's Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, who came over from Mozilla in August. Topics included everything from open source, to Facebook Connect's impact on the web, to getting stopped in airport security lines.

Editorial: Does Amazon's iPhone app go too far?Yesterday

Amazon's new iPhone app encourages people to use it for comparison shopping, even when in retail stores, and for snapping pics of other people's clothing in public. Too much of a good thing or the future of shopping?

Python 3.0 slithers onto scene, sheds backward compatibilityYesterday

Python 3.0 has been officially released. This major update sacrifices backwards compatibility, but brings many significant improvements. Ars takes a close look at some of the new features.

A $100 Midget PC at the local dollar store? Not so fastYesterday

One of the hot items of the last few days has been Coby Electronics supposed plan to enter the netbook market with the Midget PC—supposedly a smaller netbook with a Chinese CPU inside. but there are some serious holes in the story. There is a company interested in bringing a Chinese-powered notebook to market—but it isn't Coby.

Is the last mile of fiber-to-the-node the future of BPL?Yesterday

A firm that sells BPL gear agrees that BPL isn't the right solution. Or do they? It likes a fiber/BPL hybrid that the company just happens to have ready to offer.