Mozilla wants Firefox to get in on the social web. First came The Coop, which remains an active project, and now Chris Beard, VP and General Manager for Mozilla Labs, says that Mozilla is looking to develop an open, extensible framework for online services.

Like Cinderella's glass slipper, the OLPC will have efforts made to fit XP into it. Not the full version with heel and toes, but a cut down version, maybe the $3 version? After the limited field trials beginning in January, Windows XP for the XO could be available in the second half of 2008, Microsoft said.

After Vista SP1, the worst that will happen is a warning notice that forces a 15-second delay at login, and a reminder every hour on the hour to activate.
Gates famously stated in the past that if people pirated an OS he would prefer it to be Windows. Microsoft forgot this for a while, but there is a glimmer of a re awakening. Don't be fooled by the bad product that is Vista. There is a long way to go before Microsoft runs out of money!

Wind River yesterday announced solid 3Q earnings, touting wins in embedded Linux consumer electronics. In its earnings call yesterday, the Alameda, Calif.-based embedded Linux OS and tools vendor pointed to the growth in Linux-based mobile handsets and telematics as key drivers of the company's growth.

"...I wager that most of the technically-adept Mozilla community, who should be the first people to test new versions of the browser and file high quality bug reports, have a large set of addons they can't do without. And until those addons are available for Firefox 3.0b1, they won't be migrating - or will do so only for dedicated testing sessions, not every-day browsing..."

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk-l10n/

DJB (Daniel J. Bernstein), author of qmail, djbdns has announced in a conference Sage Days 6, declared all of his past and future code will be released to public domain.

The very well made video is provided as a Flash video (Google) as well as an high quality Ogg Theora video. It shows KDE 4 from a point of view which got just to few attention the last weeks because it requires a full install or at least a well equipped machine and the Live CD. Thanks for the great video!

Adobe has released the final version of its Flash Player Update 3, an important update that brings several new features. To get the update, available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris, visit Adobe Flash Player Download Center.