Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 is available from Mozilla.

Johnathan Nightingale of Mozilla described
Firefox 3.1 as having more refinement than new features. This alpha release is intended for developers and testers only and should not yet be for general-purpose use.

The most visible enhancement in this alpha release is a feature that allows you to drag [...]

Apple acknowledged in late 2006 after an internal investigation that certain stock option grants, including one to CEO Steve Jobs, were improperly backdated to use a more favorable price when setting the options in order to make them more valuable. The company has maintained that while Jobs was aware that the options were backdated, he [...]

“This is a very difficult product category to be selling,” said Forrester Research analyst J.P. Gownder. “Consumers, generally speaking, don’t know what a home server is.”

But the software maker still has to find an answer to the bigger problem–many consumers have no idea what a server is and fewer still have any reason to think [...]

Twhirl will continue to support Twitter, and Le Meur has no plans to add text nanoblogging to Seesmic. His service is all about video, he says.
Meet Seesmic's new desktop client app.

Seesmic’s video service is often compared to Twitter since it encourages short-form back-and-forth commentary, as Twitter does, and its social architecture is [...]

In fact, traffic to each of these open-source project sites is up considerably in the past year:
Just when I think we’ve tapped out all possible open-source business opportunities, I hear of another open-source start-up. Or several.
No, it’s not a great economy, but yes, open source stands to benefit. The traffic is increasing to open-source sites. [...]

That’s nearly 1.4 percent of all U.S. Internet users, Nielsen said. That may sound small, but it’s a pretty good response for a beta version of a product that most people don’t need, since so far, it only refines the familiar activity of using the Web.

It appears that nearly 2 million people in the United [...]

Now here’s a recipe for success: Take a brand that your parent company’s been on the verge of abandoning for the last four years. Slap it on a new music download store for mobile phones. Encrust all the tracks with DRM, even though the rest of the music download industry is finally moving away from [...]

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CNET Networks)
Bomomo is a wonderful Flash-based art application that runs in your
Firefox or
Safari browser. Instead of giving you some simple MS Paint-like tools like a paintbrush, bucket, and eraser, everything in Bomomo is dynamic and moving, leading to some kaleidoscopic creations that you can either e-mail to friends or squirrel away to your hard drive. [...]

Or even: “This MacBook is wasted on a bonehead like you. Get yourself a PC and like it.”
This little Swirly Rainbow Circle Thingy might have been a bug. Or the introduction to some errant and very nasty computer game.
Well, except for the dialogue part.
You know the kind of thing: “Your trash is fuller than [...]

That performance runs counter to the brief glimmer of hope job seekers may have had in February when tech job postings rose 3.1 percent sequentially.

Tech job postings fell 40.4 percent in March over year ago figures, with most of the decline coming from full-time positions, according to a report released Tuesday by tech career site [...]