According to John Lilly, the Firefox web browser has 126 million unique monthly users. A figure extrapolated from an Active Daily Users number of 48 million, itself a massive increase on the 23 million ADU figure from this time last year. So who is John Lilly and why should we take any notice of his figures?

Last weekend the members of the KDE-Edu team met in Paris for a meeting about the Education project. The meeting took place at the Mandriva office, where the members got to know each other and started vivid discussions about their free and open source educational applications, life in general, as well as the future and vision of the Edu module. Read on for the report.

Nigerian schoolchildren no doubt appreciate the innovative little machines that are trickling into Africa via Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child program. But IBM thinks the developing world needs a little more processing power to cross the digital divide--about 14,000 times more, by the company's estimation.

Gmail supports AIM. That's good news. Err, it's bad news! This is an evil feature and in this article I will write why Google is evil.

You might remember some time ago that Michael Bay proved he's a Sony fanboy by ranting about how Paramount would never get a Transformers 2 from him, because it had switched to support HD DVD exclusively. Obviously, once the sugar high from his Kool-Aid had worn off, he retracted the statement and said that 300 on HD DVD was pure ownage. Well, he's at it again. This time in a post on his official Web site he said: "What you don't understand is corporate politics. Microsoft wants both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads. That is the dirty secret no one is talking about.

Emlix GmbH is introducing a dual-unit, GPS- and GPRS-based logistics system for tanker transport of liquid goods, such as milk. Its System 3003 combines two Ethernet-linked Linux systems: the in-cabin subsystem (ICS) for driver guidance and the metering-sampling subsystem (MSS) that monitors liquid delivery/collection.

ELCOT has migrated to SUSE Enterprise Linux for Tamil Nadu’s school project that will help it protect its existing investments in hardware.

Dell has told DesktopLinux.com that it will be announcing later today, Dec. 19, that it will be releasing PCs with Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) as part of its Dell Consumer Linux lineup along with the ability to legally play DVDs.