Mozilla updates Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey

Mozilla has released updated versions of three of its Internet software products with security and stability improvements, plus Intel Mac compatibility for the Thunderbird email client. Firefox 1.5. ...more

Jobs attacks Apple dealers

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, launched a fierce attack on a meeting of some 300 US Apple dealers at Macworld San Francisco last week. The meeting came as a surprise to the dealers, to whom Jobs had not spoken directly for over five years. No less surprising was the content, as Jobs allegedly employed less than clean language as he railed against those who he said have made buying a computer "the worst purchasing experience". ...more

Search Engine Strategies 2007: Microsoft lifts veil on AdCenter search tools

Despite a relatively slow start compared to rivals Google and Yahoo!, Microsoft has come out fighting with plans for a new generation of tools for its AdCenter contextual advertising service. Demos of the latest thinking from Microsoft AdCenter Labs were being shown at London's Search Engine Strategies show. 'We want to share our thinking and get feedback from as many people as possible,' said James Colborn, Microsoft's Product Manager for AdCenter. ...more

Europe agrees mobile roaming price caps

European Union legislators were set to back a popular plan on Wednesday to slash the cost of using mobile phones abroad in the 27-member bloc. The EU's executive Commission says the plan will cut prices to a quarter or a fifth of what EU citizens now pay for calls back home from other member states. The price caps are part of a push by the Union to show it can bring real benefits to its 490 million citizens, many of whom complain Brussels is too remote from their daily lives. ...more

Yahoo!'s new search is a great find

Yahoo has at last begun the process to wean itself off its reliance on the Google search engine. It has now released a revamped version of the Inktomi `Slurp` spider to crawl the web. As a result, the Yahoo web search results now appear to be exclusively those from Slurp and Google has been dropped from the listings. ...more