Mozilla Corp. is moving on to their new browser. On Monday the company launched the Mozilla 3.0 beta. However, ordinary users like myself are being warned to stay using the Firefox 2.0. The Firefox 3.0 beta is recommended for developers as well as testers. The application can be downloaded to Mac OS X, Linux 21 as well as Windows. Mozilla’s interface designer Mike Beltzner revealed that the Firefox 3.0 carries many improvements. These improvements pertain to the speed, security and convenient usage.

There are a lot of web browsers nowadays and I can’t say that I’ve had the pleasure of trying out all of them… and you know that browsers are not only being used for the PC, they’re being integrated into mobile devices as well. To be more competitive Mozilla Corp. is developing another mobile browser. The Mobile Firefox is already in progress now, Mozila having hired 2 new developers to assist in the venture. These two are Christian Sejersen from Openwire Systems Inc. and Brad Lassey from France Telecom R&D.

Home users and especially the business organizations will have a better tool to use in managing their hundreds of files and various important papers. Last Sept 18 at the IBM Collaboration Summit in New York, the company announced the tool set, which they call Lotus Symphony. Right now IBM is offering this new software for free! This is a great treat because aside from being free, these tools can help a lot in creating and sharing documents as well as spreadsheets and presentations.

To cater more on corporate-oriented individual’s need for bigger and higher capacity hard drives, Hitachi launched its 2.5-inch, 200GB hard drive officially named as the Travelstar 7K200. This hard drive can run at 7200 RPM; compared to its predecessor this rate is double its capacity and 22% higher in terms of performance. Its also has a 350 Gs operating shock tolerance that enable it to withstand potentially damaging vibration, drops and knocks. Aside from the faster speed and bigger capacity, the Travelstar 7K200 is also equipped with an optional data encryption or their “Bulk Data Encryption” technology. For those people who use their laptop in business and for storing delicate data, this encryption technology would be heaven-sent because it can prevent data theft and piracy.

As computer users, we all have the same concerns especially when it comes to online security. Viruses are just some of the major worries when using the PC especially for those who have no way of knowing that they are already entering an unsafe site. Aside from that, one of the most recent problems is phishing. Well now you have a way to feel secure while going online. Symantec recently launched their product, the Norton 360 All-In-One Security. Retail price of this new product is $79.99 with a one-year subscription for use as well as receive Symantec’s protection updates.

After the vulnerabilities cited about the Firefox browser, Thunderbird email client and Seamonkey application suite, Mozilla has now acted accordingly in addressing this pressing problem. A new security update which they termed as critical update was issued just last Tuesday by Mozilla. This new security update will address the eight security holes seen in the said applications. Users of the aforementioned applications are urged to acquire this security patch so that exploitation or abuse of personal information can be avoided. Additionally, Mozilla also advices users to abstain from using JavaScript in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey to steer clear of further security breach.

Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the guys who brought you the Internet calling program Skype, are now taking their abandoned son to the next level: Video.

They sold Skype last year to eBay and now they've invested $2.5 billion into a new internet TV station which will use P2P technology and broadcast in near high-definition quality over the net. The TV channels will be free of course and they will be making money from advertisers. Everyone wins. So far, no big TV stations have shown interest which maybe due to loose control they would have over the content, or maybe no control at all.
Currently 6,000 people are testing the service which is expected to be launched next year.

Adobe Systems, the number one in the world when it comes to digital media manipulation, has introduced the beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 software Last Thursday.
The company is delivering the product to everyone! And when I say everyone I mean, Mac users as well as Windows and also, it will be Vista compatible.

“Adobe has never taken a major product and made it available in this way. It’s a water shed event, but we want to show dedication to the Mac platform,” John Nack, Senior Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop said.

You wanted it “easier and more secure” so here it is the Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 RC1. It’s not yet the final product, but it’s almost like the final version set to be completed before the year’s end said Microsoft. This pre-release IE 7 boasts improved design and security features that would offer users a seamlessly more enjoyable web browsing experience.

Among the updates found in the IE 7 Release Candidate 1 is the tabbed browsing capability similar to the Mozilla Firefox browser. This allows more convenient browsing as you can now see all open tabs in a single view and classify different tabs into one group.

Microsoft was supposed to launch the MS Office 2007 last March but slated it in October in time with the launching of the Windows Vista, an improved operating system offering an intuitive design and more productivity to its users. Yesterday, however, Microsoft informed the public that it won’t launch yet the new Microsoft Office 2007 in October as earlier scheduled. It hopes to release it sometime later this year while it plans to make Office upgrades available for everyone early next year.

A new Linux release is available, Linux 2.6.17. This release includes support for Sun Niagara CPUs, it has a new I/O mechanism called 'splice' which will improve the performance for some applications. Other changes on this release include a New scheduler domain which optimizes CPU scheduling decisions for multi-core CPUs, driver for the widely used broadcom 43xx wifi chip, iptables support for the H.323 protocol, CCID2 support for DCCP, softmac layer for the wireless stack, block queue IO tracing, Raid5 reshaping support, Updates for JFS, ALSA, NFS, V4L/DVB (many new devices added), and many bugfixes and minor updates.

For more information about the changes being made on this release, click here

Next Tuesday, Firefox 2.0 Alpha is set for release.
According to the Mozzila development team, this new Alpha version of Firefox focuses on improving access and ease of use for Web site history and bookmarks, especially improve the capabilities of Live Bookmarks, but it's still a long way until the real thing is fully developed.
On the other hand, the final release of Firefox 2.0 is expected in the third quarter of this year.

Everyone of us is wasting lots of time everyday deleting spam emails and make sure not to fall into one of those spammers fraud emails so a tool to fight all this will be worth trying.

CipherTrust released a free toolbar that monitors the reputation of email senders around the world, enabling it to identify spam mailers, fraud and phishing email senders instantly; And in addition its monitoring capability, the toolbar has an alerting and reporting capabilities which you can use to ensure that any email you open is from a trusted source.

The TrustedSource Toolbar is the industry’s first e-mail reputation toolbar and it supports multiple mail clients like Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.
You can download it for free at research.ciphertrust.com

If you just bought a new computer and you miss the lots of softwares you have on your old computer and can't find their installation files or don't have the time to go through all the installation process of these programs again... then you will love this new program called Move Me by Spearit Software.

Move Me is a program that will copy your old programs and data to another computer quickly and easily, giving you the performance and excitement of a new computer along with the familiar feel and functionality of your old system, without worrying about your new computer's pre-installed software, they will remain intact.