The Mozilla team has announced that Fiirefox 3.1 will come with native support for Theora and Vorbis media. So, this means that:

open source media can become a bit more mainstream (finally moving away the proprietary mp3 monopoly);
no longer will we have to install Firefox plugins to see embedded audio and video files (as long as [...]

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Released yesterday, Firefox 3 has surely surpassed its objective of 1 million downloads in 24 hours. A new world record!! (No one actually knows if there was a record to be broken…)
Mozilla’s site went down but at the end of the day everything went well. On our office HQ, the Ubuntu install already has FF [...]

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Today, is Document Freedom Day! A day to raise awareness for open document standards.
I’ve been dealing with computers for over 15 years now and have gone through several, several different programs and different upgrade versions. It has been a constant hassle throughout the years having to purchase the latest version of program XYZ to be [...]

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OpenOffice.org has just released OpenOffice version 2.4.0. At this moment, mysteriously there is no information coming from the main website, but you can download it through Filehippo. Sorry, no change log yet, no information as to what is new, and on my Linux distro OpenOffice still is showing as the most recent version so [...]

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Speaking of VirtualBox, Sun Microsystem has just announced that it has purchased innotek (the makers of VirtualBox).
Sun states: “Now, as part of the Sun xVM portfolio, VirtualBox will have the support of Sun’s global development community, field resources and partners to make VirtualBox even more compelling to developers and end users, driving greater adoption across [...]

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