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Google's Chrome was the only web browser application to gain global market share last month, with all other major browser platforms showing month-to-month declines, according to Net Applications. Mozilla's Firefox browser -- which had been racking up steady gains at Microsoft's expense through November 2009 -- saw its global market share fall for the third straight month, the web metrics firm reported.

Sidney Mintz in the Boston Review:

How your senators are spending their multimillion dollar budgets for staff salaries, travel, and office expenses may soon be just a computer mouse click away.

The Senate is planning to follow the House in posting office expenses on the Internet instead of in volumes that must to be purchased or viewed in Capitol office buildings.

The idea, says Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is to let people see what their lawmakers are doing with their taxpayer-funded office accounts -- and hold their feet to the fire for questionable expenses.

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A conversation about the upcoming French Open between three tennis fans: Sydneysider Lucy Perkins, New Yorker Asad Raza, and Ecuadorian-North Carolinian Juan José Vallejo.
Asad Raza: Hey guys, thanks for coming aboard the 3quarksdaily raft.  So here we are at Roland Garros time, again, where for the last several years Rafa Nadal has been the bear that eats Roger Federer.  J.J., you have the best account of the state of their rivalry I've heard.  Care to run through it?

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