Mozilla’s original roadmap for Firefox 3 called for a beta release this month, but unfortunately that hasn’t happened.
There is, however, a new alpha available for testing.
As with previous alpha releases, Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 runs on the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine and offers a host of new features, though it remains a developer [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union today launched a “Surveillance Society Clock” that counts down to the total surveillance state.
“The clock is set at six minutes before the ‘midnight’ of a dark end to privacy,” the organization notes.
We are rapidly moving toward a future where our every move, our every transaction, our every communication is tracked [...]
Online brokerage TD Ameritrade is warning customers today that some of their personal information, notably e-mail addresses, may have been accessed by an external source.
Its handling of the situation shows there’s some progress being made toward more proactive disclosure of security breaches.
In a letter to account holders (full disclosure: I received the letter), CEO [...]
Wikipedia published its 2-millionth article in the English language version of the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia, a symbolic milestone for the world’s largest user-generated Web publishing site.
Wikipedia, the sixth most visited network of Web sites worldwide behind commercial operators Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Time Warner and eBay, is available in 250 languages. Combined, Wikipedia has published more than [...]
Sometimes, when things aren’t going your way, the best way to handle things is to simply walk away.
At least, that’s the philosophy being followed by the Japanese communications ministry, which apparently intends to build a new Internet.
According to an Associated Press story, the Japanese government, concerned about growing “quality and security” problems, is working [...]
As an experienced web designer and application developer with 15+ years of “hands on” experience, I do my best to code all my XHTML and CSS really lean and clean as well as all my backend programming code.
However if I’m contracted to work on someone else’s HTML, CSS or website, the code might not [...]
August 20th, 2008The new generation of laptops are small, light and ultra thin which means we can take them and our work with us wherever we go. Of course we also want[...] Read the rest »