Take some known innovators in the tech world, put them in a room with some felt-tip pens, paper and the command to mash up a few topical niches, and you might end up with the seven-strong group that today announced their intention to bring a Linux-based UMPC to the market in early 2009.
If you want to see a contentious gadget, take a quick look at Nokia’s N800 internet tablet. Some love it – for its easy net surfing, handy size and crisp screen – while others would like to see it burn in a fiery grave. There’s no denying that the pre-loaded Opera browser has a mixed track record in terms of stability and performance; now Nokia are giving users an alternative and likely hoping that basing the new browser on Mozilla (i.e. that behind the ever-popular Firefox) will salve a few ills (and ill-wills).
Oi Microsoft! I like cake too! But did you send me any when I started blogging for SlashGear? No you sodding well didn’t. This is blatant Firefox-favouritism.
The sweet-toothed IE team over at Redmond were so pleased to see Mozilla launch Firefox 2.0 that they sent them a cake. Cue the predictable jokes (was it poisoned? is it full of bugs?) The news here, I suppose, is the launch and the fact that relations between the two companies are nowhere near as fraught as those between each browser’s fan-community, an ongoing feud that I suspect would require more than sugar to sweeten.
Fredericiana [via Valleywag]
Firefox 2.0 was scheduled to be release today. I woke up in the morning, fired up my computer and did not see it yet on Mozilla’s site. FireFox 2.0 will support Javascript 1.7 to give a better support to Ajax. The new Fox also gets a nice makeover on its interface end, however under the hood Firefox 2.0 have couple new exciting features such as Built-In phising protection, better search capabilities, improved tabbed browsing, in-line spell checker, previewing rss feeds, and my favorite new feature, resume browsing session. Okay, now it’s time for me to go and refresh Mozilla page again and hope to see 2.0 final download.
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