Firefox 3 was downloaded 8.3 million time in the first 24 hours it was released, but the success was tempered by reports from a software security company that Firefox 3.0 contained a serious security flaw that potentially lets a hacker take over a PC if a user clicks on a booby-trapped link. Read more
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that the analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has ranked them as the market share leader worldwide for enterprise portal software. these numbers are based on total software revenue for 2007. Read more
Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday the co-founders of its photo-sharing Web site Flickr are leaving the company.
The husband-and-wife team of Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield sold Flickr to Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) in 2005. Fake’s last day was June 13; Butterfield’s last day is expected to be July 12.
Yahoo added video technology to Flickr in April, which lets users share short video clips.
Despite the recent flurry of departures from Yahoo, a sales executive from the company said at a William Blair conference on Tuesday that the company is hiring aggressively.
Microsoft is buying Navic Systems, which uses cable-box techology to place targeted ads on tv. This means that IPTV is coming whether you want it or not.
It also means that Microsoft is expanding.
Mozilla has set a record at a total of 8 million software downloads. This is not official, but is according to Mozilla. It will take a couple of days until the Guinness World Record Judges confirm this.
Mozilla has been ranked the Number one used browser in the World!
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Digsby is a New Instant Message program, but it’s more than that it’s also does Texting, checks your emails, Social Networking(ie. Myspace, Twitter, Facebook), and Video calls.
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HP launched a new generation of PC’s that respond to users tapping or stroking the screen
, potentially bringing user-friendly computing to the masses. Read more
IronKey Inc., the people who make the most secure flash drive in the world, announced today that its devices now support Linux, allowing Linux users to use the features built into IronKey flash drives on all
Linux-based operating systems(woohoo)! Read more
NOTE:
I (Allan) come up with all the ‘joke of the day’ jokes myself unless otherwise stated.
I made a link to your brain and when I clicked it I got a 404 not found.
As you probably know, Mozilla is trying to set a world record for most software downloads in 24 hours today. They say that they need to have over 5 million firefox 3 downloads to set the record. There servers are slow today with all the downloads taking place, but what is really happening?
