FireFox’s progression marches steadily on in the Euopean ‘Browser wars‘. The open source underdog has been chewing out lumps of the market from under IE7’s feet for a while and it looks set to continue. A survey carried out between the 5th & 11th of March has shown that FireFox has overtaken IE7 in […]
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FireFox Rising
March 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tags: Internet general · Open source · browsers
Another Internet ‘World’s First’ for Estonia
March 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments
From the Iron curtain to a Net one. Estonia maybe the smallest of the three Baltic States and one of the smallest countries in the EU, but this hasn’t hampered them in writing another chapter for the Internet world record books.
Tags: Internet general · Open source
EasyGate left open
January 25th, 2007 · No Comments
I wrote about the EasyGate ‘box’ last September,(picked up by Slashdot - link) I suppose you could call it a follow up to the French Minitel, designed for Internet access and not much else really. But then, with the whole concept of Web based operating systems taking off, online storage for free etc. what […]
Tags: Internet general · Applications · Open source
The Council of the EU says “We cannot support Linux”
January 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
The Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union - where you can view live transmissions of ongoing public events or browse the archives - can only be accessed by Mac or MS Windows users due to the WMV format chosen for the videos!
Quote from the Council’s FAQ page “The live streaming media service […]
Tags: Internet general · Open source
