Last weekend Google announced they were going to acquire online advertiser DoubleClick for a mere $3.1 billion. Also in the race to try and acquire DoubleClick was Microsoft. What could only be described as ironic, Microsoft along with AT&T are crying “Antitrust”. According to The New York Times Microsoft is claiming that the deal would “hurt competition in the fast-growing market for advertising on the Web and raise questions about how much personal information would be collected by Google.” Microsoft is usually the target of these antitrust battles, and now they find themselves on the other side. AT&T is already…
April 16, 2007
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Some big news from today’s meeting: Fx 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4 Code Freeze is set for this Friday (04/20) but currently their are 60 open blocker bugs on the branch. The last release date I had saw was sometime in Mid-May. So technically, support for the 1.5.0.X builds will not end on April 24th. Major Update has been pushed back until after this next build release. Actually this makes a lot of sense, since Fx 1.5.0.12 is going to be the last build on the 1.5.0.X branch. More details on this to come in the following week. Thunderbird 2 is coming very, very…
Up until last year you could purchase plush Red Panda (Firefox) toys via the Mozilla Store. But the folks at Mozilla Links have found a couple online merchants that still sell the plush Red Pandas. There are three different size/styles to choose from and prices range from $8-$20. See Mozilla Links for more info.
The Add-ons Promotion Contest ended on April 9th. Here are the top 10 reviews: 23 Forum Additive – reviewed by Mozilla Links 22 Adblock Plus – reviewed by Vikas Sah 19 ScrapBook – [Spanish] reviewed by Leandro Ardissone 18 CoLT – reviewed by ffextensionguru 14 NewsFox – reviewed by Mozilla Links 12 Secure Login – reviewed by Mozilla Links 12 DownThemAll! – [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox 10 FoxFilter – reviewed by Mozilla Links 10 Google Toolbar 3 – reviewed by Cybernetnews 9 FavLoc – reviewed by Mozilla Links 9 Download Statusbar – reviewed by ffextensionguru News Source: Mozilla Links