With Firefox 3 nearly ready for primetime, and as Netscape is formally no more, Mozilla celebrates over half a billion Firefox downloads with a program to donate free rice to the poor.
Users of the 64-bit version of Vista may have noticed something strange over the last couple of days – a notification that Vista SP1 has downloaded to their computers and is ready for installation, despite availability still set for March 18. Has Microsoft gone mad?In a move that is of no surprise to anyone, Microsoft has finally decided it will no longer manufacture the HD DVD add-on drive for the Xbox 360, although they will naturally continue to support customers who purchased the drive.Late last year Uruguay landed its first shipment of 100,000 units of the much lauded, sometimes criticised XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation. Buoyed by that success, Walter Bender, president software and content at OLPC effused over the next countries in line for the little green machine. The question is, however, can the likes of Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia, Haiti, Rwanda, Mongolia and a myriad of other impoverished countries stump up with the cash needed to join the OLPC bandwagon?
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