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Safari for Windows
Review of Apple’s Safari browser for windows.
Safari feels very fast opening pages. It’s got all the standard web browser features, tabbed browsing, rss feed reader… Continue reading
Firefox 3 Beta 4
I’ve been testing the latest betas of Firefox for awhile now and Firefox 3 is shaping up to be very nice in my opinion. The biggest thing is the Mozilla team seem to have started plugging some of the memory … Continue reading
Network Solutions Class Action Suit
Shady business practices abound at Network Solutions. The domain registrar is being accused of ‘front-running’. What happens is when someone goes to the Network Solutions site and searches for the availability of a domain name Network Solutions immediately registered the name for itself. Then the company forces the user to pay outrageous fees to buy the name from them. One client in the suit said $34.99 when the same domain elsewhere would have been $9.99. For anyone who’s been burned by this practice this is welcome news. Continue reading
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ICANN now using IPV6
ICANN the company that handles all the domain names and ip addresses for the world have just turned on IPV6 in 6 of the 13 root servers. So the movement to version 6 has begun. Some large companies have been … Continue reading
Sun Acquires MySQL
Sun Microsystems will be buying the open source database software MySQL for 1 billion dollars. While being an open source company and giving it’s software away MySQL offers paid support to customers, and one of those customers is Google. So the 1 billion dollar price tag seems pretty fair. Here’s the official news from Sun. Continue reading
