After some early reports this morning that Firefox 6.0 would be shipping today, it has surfaced that the new browser will not ship today. Mozilla lists Firefox 6.0 as being released for download tomorrow. It’s interesting to see the new version ready to launch tomorrow when it's only been a couple months since Firefox 5.0 launched.
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Adobe Muse promises site building with drag’n'drop simplicity
Adobe has launched its latest web tool intended to democratize establishing an online presence, Muse, which claims to allow complex HTML sites - with HTML5 and CSS support - to be created as easily as if being laid out for print. Currently in beta, Muse borrows UI and layout concepts from Adobe InDesign, with drag-and-drop menus, slideshows and other widgets that require no coding skills to implement.
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Comcast $10 broadband targets low-income families
Comcast has kicked off its Internet Essentials program, a $9.95 entry-level broadband option for any family with at least one child taking advantage of the National School Lunch Program. Offering up to 1.5 Mbps downloads and up to 384 Kbps uploads, the discount connection also offers a budget $150 Windows 7 Starter netbook and inclusive internet and PC training.
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FCC Measures Actual Internet Speeds in USA
For the first time in the history of the internet, the FCC has collected a mass of data showing “real-world” speeds at which USA internet connections are working. If we can trust anyone to give us, the public, unbiased plain-number results, it’s the FCC, right? Georgia Tech professor Nick Feamster, working with the FCC on proper metrics for the test, noted that they “found that the performance of US ISPs more consistently matches their advertised promises than the ISPs in other countries—they do a pretty good job.” Of course, with numbers like what we’re seeing here and claims made by carriers around the US over the past few years, not everyone agrees.
Google Answers G+ Privacy Questions, Declines Others
Dan Gillmore, writer, teacher, and Google+ member has been in communication with Google over the past few weeks, asking questions about security and safety of information as it pertains to Google+. As he says in his own words, “I find Google’s responses (and non-responses) disappointing.” As you’ll see below, Google answered some key questions and uncovered a few rocks we’re sure you’ll be interested in seeing under. There’s also a list of questions they did not reply to, and assuming Gillmore actually DID send these questions in and Google DID decline to answer, the implications are immense.
Google Page Speed Service rewrites sites for up to 60% speed boost
Google reckons your site is too slow, and wants to rewrite it for you. A new launch from the search giant, Google Page Speed Service, promises speed boosts of anything from 25- to 60-percent after you allow it to prefetch your site, streamline it according to its own "best practices" and then offer it up from its own network of servers worldwide.
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Luminate Aims to Turn Web-Based Images to Interactive Apps
The folks at the company formerly known as Pixazza, if you've ever heard of them of course, have rebranded themselves as "Luminate", launching today a brand new platform that'll allow web-based images to act as mini-applications. What this will do, essentially, is if you take a look at the image below this paragraph, you'll see several elements that, if you were looking at them in a real-world setting, you'd be able to touch and get a reaction out of. What Luminate intends to do is make that situation a reality inside the web browser with minimal effort on the part of the developer or webmaster who wishes to have said functionality.
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Can the Internet and Nostalgia Get Along?
Emily Price has an interesting piece on TechnoBuffalo about whether the Internet is killing our memory. In fact, she’s really talking about nostalgia, not recall memory in general, but it’s a fascinating topic worth some exploration. The real question is whether the existence of things in digital form or physical form is more pleasing to our recollection, and I do not think there is an easy answer. Undoubtedly, there are things that feel better in the hand than on the screen, and there are ways of storing valuable memories digitally that are more reliable than their physical versions. But I also wonder if this transition, from physical to digital memory, won’t also teach us that there are certain memories we should simply give up for good.
ICANN Destroys Main Street Dot Com
Can you guess what the most common street name is in the U.S.A.? It’s not main street. It’s Second street. When you think about it, that makes sense. Some towns have a main street, and then the next street over is Second. Some towns have a First street. Some towns have Division street. Park street is the second most popular street name, but Second Street is the most popular. But it is only the most popular because every town also has a main thoroughfare, and the other streets branch off from there. Even though the most popular street in America is Second, that would not be true if there was not some central location toward which all of the other streets pointed.
Boingo now offers users access to Gogo internet in flight
Boingo has announced that it has teamed up with Gogo to offer the users of the Boingo extended roaming network access to Gogo internet service on select commercial airlines. The access will be available on over 1,100 aircraft with nine different carriers with internet access available above 10,000 feet altitude. Gogo is the premier in-flight WiFi access provider on commercial flights today.
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Rymble merges real world with social networking online
No, that isn't the spinner from the board game Life you see in the image below. It a contraption called Rymble by Symplio that is intended to merge virtual social networks with the real world. It is a sort of real world notification system. It will allow you to see what is going on when you are not on the site for Facebook or other networks. The maker describes it as a "living internet object" that mirrors what happens on the social network for likes messages, and requests using movement of the Facebook wheel and sounds.
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Today is World IPv6 Day
Today is a special day in the geek world, it's World IPv6 Day. Don't worry people; you don’t need to by a gift for your significant other or anything. Today marks the first 24-hour test of the IPv6 system around the world by major websites. The goal of the test day is to motivate organizations across the industry to prepare their services for IPv6 so the transition goes smoothly since IPv4 addresses ran out and IPv6 addresses are going to be handed out moving forward. The target industries for the day are ISPs, hardware makers, OS vendors, and web firms.
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