Firefox 3 beta 1 has been officially released with impressive new features and functionality. Ars has been using the alpha builds for some time, and we take a close look at the new features in Firefox 3.
In Chris Pruett’s article, he discusses large number of programmers with gaming backgrounds, and how they have become an independent army. He also discusses future ‘armies’ impacts on programming, such as the impact of the internet, etc.
The KDE community released the first release candidate for the new major version, KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality.
If Samy Kamkar plays his cards right, he may be allowed to visit MySpace again in just a few months. For the time being, however, he’s not even allowed to touch a computer, following a January 2007 guilty plea for creating what many consider to be the first Web 2.0 worm: the Samy worm.
Tony, a solider returning from Iraq after a year of active duty, found out that his wife couldn’t wait for some lovin’ while he was gone by checking his Wii. When he confronted her with his friends’ accusations, she claimed that she only kissed another man once. However, after checking his Mii channel for war buddies he discovered a Mii he didn’t c…
“Enter Best of eBay, a new site with weird little monster icons, Digg-like voting features, and a name ripped straight from Craigslist, the classifieds site in which eBay owns a minority stake. Best of eBay is in beta, which these days just means “don’t blame us if it’s broken.”
Apple may ship a 3G iPhone as soon as May 2008, a report claims.
The report in Spanish national newspaper El Pais cites claims made by a mobile software developer called SevenClick. That developer claims Spain’s biggest mobile network, Telefonica, expects a 3G version of the iPhone to make an appearance in May.
A recent New York Times article erroneously stated that 80 percent of the bugs in Firefox 3 would not be fixed. Mozilla representatives have responded in an effort to illuminate the real situation.
What a way for Nintendo’s Wii to celebrate it’s birthday with news that total worldwide Wii sales have now passed the 14 million mark! Happy birthday!
Last week they admitted they lost a disc with 15,000 records on it. Now they wanted to up their game by a few of orders of magnitude. 15 million British citizens are now at risk after their data goes missing and HM Revenue & Customs has no idea where the discs have gone. Is this one of the worst data losses of all time?
A court order handed down Monday against Deutsche Telekom mobile arm T-Mobile demands that iPhone be sold in Germany unlocked and without a two-year contract, the Wall Street Journal clarifies.
We’ve asked supporters of the bill to explain how it could possibly make sense to mandate such things, and the MPAA’s top lawyer, Fritz Attaway, has given his answer, claiming that it’s because the internet is “used primarily to allow college students to traffic in infringing content,” while being subsidized by gov’t funds.
