Pretty good deal on the popular 11

Amazon is serving up a pretty good deal on the popular 11.6-inch MacBook Air, offering the MC505LL/A model right however for $959, which Apple lists for $999. This was based on a price check I did Saturday morning Pacific Time. Which brings me to a caveat: the price can change quickly, as demand for this unit appears to be high.

New innovation called Web Sockets

Browser makers are excited about a new innovation called Web Sockets, now some are scrambling afterwards an early version raised a security problem.

Brooke Crothers has served as an editor at large at CNET News, an editor at Dow Jones' Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, and a senior editor at InfoWorld. His CNET blog covers chip innovation and computer systems, and how they define the computing experience. He as well contributes to The New York Times' Bits and Innovation sections. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

In part three of a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Microsoft's new phone software, Ina Fried takes a look at Redmond's massive testing operation.