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Vice President Biden predicts that this, at long last, will be “the summer of recovery.” The stimulus bill is working, he said, and “more people are going to be put to work this summer.” But that’s not the way things are shaping up.

副总统拜登预测，一段时间之后将会是“复苏的夏天”，刺激法案的将开始生效，并且，“更多的人将在这个夏天获得工作”，还有不一样的事情正在发生。

The latest jobs report shows that the economy shed 125,000 jobs in June. That’s more than in any month since October. Some of that was expected. The end of the census meant the disappearance of 225,000 temporary government jobs. But the crucial indicator of whether the economy is likely to add more jobs is the number of private-sector jobs created. While it’s good news that private-sector payrolls have increased for six months straight, June’s 83,000 new private-sector jobs aren’t enough to keep up with the more than 100,000 new workers who enter the labor force each month. And they’re just a small fraction of the 7.4 million jobs that have disappeared since the start of the recession.

最新的工作报告指出，在六月份到10月份期间有125,000份工作剩余，这个都是比其他月份多的。这是在某些预期里。最终人口普查的结果显示，有225,000个政府临时工职位消失了。对经济是否有可能增加更多的就业机会的关键指标是私营部门创造的就业人数。然而好消息是，私营部门的工资总额6个月内直线增加，6月份的83,000个新私营工作不够赶上每个月超过100,000个新劳动力的需求。而他们只是自从经济危机之后的7.4百万工作中的一小部分。

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Internet users in the U.S. have finally caught up with the rest of the world in their browser choice today, with Google’s Chrome taking over third place from default Apple browser Safari. The browser, first released just two years ago, has led Safari worldwide since last September, but just this week surpassed it in the U.S. as well, according to Internet traffic analytics company StatCounter.

现在美国互联网用户在他们的浏览器选择这个问题终于赶上世界上的其他地区，Google的Chrome从苹果默认的浏览器Safari手中接管了第三名的位置。Chrome这个浏览器发布的时间才两年，已经领先Safari是从去年9月开始，但是这周才在美国赶超它，报告来自互联网浏量分析公司StatCounter。

For some, this is seen as a big win for Google over Apple, as the two companies battle over the search and mobile spheres.

这些看作Google对苹果的一个大胜利，这两家公司的竞争还覆盖到搜索与移动领域。

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Google just announced a small but handy new feature for Gmail: one-click previews for Microsoft Word documents. This new features works for .doc and the more recent .docx format. Until now, Gmail’s one-click preview feature only supported PDF files, PowerPoint documents and images in the TIFF format. The new preview feature for Word documents replaces the “view as HTML” option in Gmail.

Google刚发布了一个虽小但是很方便的Gmail新功能：一次点击就可以预览微软的Word文档。这个新功能工作于.doc并且现在也工作于.docx格式的文档。直到刚才为止，Gmail的一键预览仅支持PDF、PowerPoint文档及TIFF的图像格式。这个新预览功能用Word文档替代了Gmail选项里的“使用HTML查看”。

The new Word previews definitely look far better than the HTML preview it replaces. It handles page breaks, footnotes and other more advanced features without any issues. If you want to edit the document in Google Docs, once additional click from the previewer will open the document for editing. You can also save the document to your Google Docs account without leaving the preview mode. Of course, you can also download the document and edit it in your favorite desktop word processor.

这个新的Word预览明显地比HTML预览更好。 它可以处理分页符，脚标和其他更高级的功能而不会有其他问题。如果你想在Google Docs里修改文档，在预览的页面里增加一次点击就可以打开文档修改。你也可以直接使用你的Google Docs保存文档而不需要离开这个预览的状态。当然，你也可以下载文档并使用你喜欢的桌面Word处理工具编辑。

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The Motorola Droid X is excellent. It’s also a little excessive. This Hummer humdinger of a phone delivers the absolute maximum in state-of-the-art Android power, at the cost of stretching the joint between your thumb and your other four fingers. The Droid X will be one of the first phones to run Adobe Flash when a software upgrade arrives later this summer, and its features and quality set a standard for how other Android phones should perform. It gets our Editors’ Choice for Verizon smartphones, although there are now a bunch of strong Android-powered choices on Verizon’s network.

摩拖罗拉的Droid X很不错，也有点大。这台手机设备的蜂鸣声绝对是Android系列中最大的， 拉伸了拇指与你其他四指之间的关节。等这个夏天收到软件升级之后，Droid X将是第一台运行Adobe Flash的手机之一，并且，它的特色与品质将成为其他Android手机的运行标准。这使我们的编辑们选择了Verizon的智能手机，虽然它现在不是Verizon网络中基于Android系统最强的一台机器。

原文地址：http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365629,00.asp

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Google Inc.’s Android mobile operating system is winning over an important group of allies in its fledgling rivalry with Apple Inc.’s smartphone software: application developers.

Google公司的Android手机操作系统的重要联盟组正在与苹果公司的智能手机软件进行着羽翼未丰的竞争（注：来自Google翻译），应用程序的开发者。

More than half the 2,733 developers surveyed by Appcelerator, a mobile-software tools provider, see Android as having the most long-term potential among operating systems. About 40 percent of respondents said Apple’s iOS would have the best long-term outlook, according to the survey released today.

手机软件工具提供商Appcelerator调查了2733名开发者，超过一半的开发者认为Android在操作系统中最有长期潜力。根据这份调查，大约有40%的反馈者说，苹果的iOS最有前景。

The study yields another signal that Android is gaining steam on iOS, which will power the new iPhone 4, Bloomberg Businessweek.com reported. With some 60 Android-based devices and more than 60,000 apps available, the operating system is adding more than 100,000 users daily, according to Mountain View, California-based Google. Android will eclipse iOS as the world’s second-most-popular mobile operating software in 2012, researcher Gartner Inc. has said.

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