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IE7 Announced for Longhorn and WinXP

There is now an official announcement from Bill Gates on Internet Explorer 7. It will be available in beta form this summer for Longhorn and XP SP2. The IEBlog has commentary about the decision making process that went into the new browser version." Coming on the heels of the June Beta announcement for Longhorn, if things go as planned it will likely be here in early summer. The new browser's early arrival was first discussed last year

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Diary Of A Demo

Today is a big day for James Young Jr. and Charles Ribaudo.

The two young entrepreneurs are making the most important presentation of their lives at Demo, an influential technology conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. They'll take the stage in front of 600 journalists, technology gurus and, most important, venture capitalists.

Forbes.com will report live from the event to see how they do. But first, the story of how they got there.

Stars Take a Shine to Apple

Apple has four retail stores in the Los Angeles area, which give the sales associates ample opportunity to rub elbows with Hollywood celebrities. It isn't always pleasant.

Out of respect for the celebrities' privacy, Apple forbids the stores' sales associates from talking to the press. But that hasn't stopped several staffers from sharing their celebrity anecdotes with Wired News -- stories that reveal Tinseltown's good, bad and ugly.