If you, a customer, or someone you know uses Firefox, you or they probably had to stop at some point over the past week and install it's 2.0.0.8 update. So you may want to know about this, from Percy Cabello at Mozillalinks.org: Firefox users who updated to the latest Firefox 2.0.0.8 version released last week may find that the Java plugin d... Read more…

A growing number of people have multiple mobile phones but that's actually a failure, not a success of the industry, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Speaking during a keynote speech at the CTIA Fall 2007 trade show in San Francisco, Ballmer said people are finding they need one phone for work and another for home, or one phone for email a... Read more…

Taking a page from major enterprise software providers like Oracle and SAP, Microsoft announced this week Business Ready Customer Care, an initiative that includes major enhancements to its maintenance and support program for Microsoft Dynamics, ERP and CRM, applications. The customer support initiative does three things: Extends for five years the time over which Microsoft will support its pr... Read more…

Apple began selling its long-awaited Leopard upgrade of Mac OS X Friday, starting sales at about 6 p.m. in stores around the world. The launch of Leopard will cap a frenzied year of product launches for Apple, which has included the iPhone and several new models of Apple iPods. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker, which initially delayed the launch from spring until October, has tru... Read more…

A man trading under the name of Mr Modchips has been convicted of distributing and selling illegal technology that enables games console users to play illegally copied DVDs and CDs. Neil Stanley Higgs of Speedwell Road, Bristol became only the second person in the UK to be found guilty of the crimes. Higgs set up his business in 2002 and it is estimated he enjoyed a turnover of 1m (pounds) b... Read more…

Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises, Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft saying Thursday that it has now shipped 88 million copies of the operating system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of time at its launch. In late July, Microsoft said it had hit the 60 million shipment mark with Vista. Microsoft had previously ... Read more…

A high-resolution image of Da Vinci's "Last Supper" will soon be posted on the Internet by an Italian technology firm, allowing art lovers and conspiracy theorists alike to scrutinize it from their own computers. The digital imaging firm, called HAL9000 after the killer computer in Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey", will post the 16-17 giga pixel image on its Web site (www.haltadef... Read more…

WebSense, a security firm headquartered in fire-savaged San Diego, is warning that scammers are milking the tragic situation by masquerading as charity organizations. Websense posted an image showing one suspicious eBay auction purporting to be a request for donations from the San Diego Fire Rescue Relief Effort. "Please put the item you want to buy aside for a short time and take in consi... Read more…

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday expanded the capabilities of its Windows Live ID service by adding support for single sign-on for its Windows Live services and making it possible for users to sign up for an ID from a mobile device. Microsoft executives posted the updates to Windows Live on separate blog entries. Windows Live ID is the gateway to Microsoft's Windows Live services, which include e-mail, ... Read more…

Users of the MySpace.com social networking Website will be able to add multiplayer games to their personal profile pages, and play them for free, from next year. MySpace has struck a deal with Oberon Media Inc. to make available hundreds of casual games from its portfolio, the companies said Tuesday. MySpace provides a platform on which individuals or groups can build Web pages known as pe... Read more…