LG Thrive, IE 10 & Final Cut Pro X Unveiled: This Morning’s Top Stories

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.


AT&T Launches First Prepaid Smartphone

AT&T and LG have launched LG Thrive, the first Android smartphone to be available as part of AT&T’s GoPhone prepaid plan.


Microsoft Unveils Internet Explorer 10 Preview
Microsoft has released the first platform preview for Internet Explorer 10, less than a month after the launch its much-hyped Internet Explorer 9 browser.

Apple Announces Final Cut Pro X

Apple has unveiled Final Cut Pro X, the newest version of its popular video-editing software.

Further News

• Cisco is discontinuing its line of Flip video cameras, the company’s CEO announced.
• A group of volunteer bloggers has filed a class-action suit against The Huffington Post, its founder, Arianna Huffington, and AOL, which acquired the digital media company for $315 million in February.
• Flock, the 5-year-old social web browser, is also going out of commission. Support for the browser will be discontinued on April 26.
• Walmart-owned movie streaming service Vudu is now accessible from web browsers.    

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 coming to Windows Phone 7

Firefox really knocked the ball out of the park with its most recent release, out-downloading Internet Explorer 9 by quite an impressive – nay, obliterating margin. Still, that doesn’t mean Microsoft is going to let IE9 languish around like that, no sir – the company will be introducing the Internet Explorer 9 Web browser to Windows Phone 7 later this year, boasting full support for HTML5 video and graphics as well as hardware-assisted acceleration. Of course, users will also be able to benefit from its multitasking capability that lets you keep one app running while you start another. We do hope that it will run smooth enough when it arrives in the market, and hopefully there will be less security holes for unscrupulous folks to exploit than its desktop predecessors.

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