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EU could Force Microsoft to Bundle Firefox with Windows

The European Commision is considering to force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows. The revelation came as part of Microsoft's quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. Among the statements is a clause outlining the penalties being considered by the European watchdog, which recently ruled that Microsoft is harming competition by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.

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25 Years of Macintosh

January 24th marks the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh. Apple's iconic computer has permanently changed the personal computing landscape since its original introduction in 1984.

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Adobe to Open Flash Platform Messaging Protocol

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced plans to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification, which is designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between Flash Platform technologies.

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Bill Gates about Ajax, Office 12 and more

Gates spoke about the future of the company, the next release of Office, the Internet, and software in general. Read More
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Guild of Accessible Web Designers launches

The Guild of Accessible Web Designers launched two days ago, to promote a vision of the future that assumes accessible web design to be relevant, obtainable and not at odds with successful business practice or good visual and usable design.

GAWDS.org is pushing accessible web design into the mainstream of web development - it may be travelling in that direction already - but the Guild aims to speed that process up. For more information read: What is the Guild of Accessible Web Designers?

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DMXzone: CSS and XHTML

As DMXzone got  bigger and bigger, so was the HTML we used to keep all the articles, tutorials and news. It was getting more bloated than Vegas Elvis with gas.

Now we are totally rewriting the  code so that it is fully CSS and XHTML based!
No more nasty tables and rubbish html code – all clean XHTML and CSS compliant code now! Not only did we improve our standards-compliance, but we also cut down the page size - the homepage went from 100Kb to 40Kb XHTML!

Phase 1 is completed: getting the homepage sorted out, and writing effective CSS to replicate the old more-nested-tables-than-a-tornado-in-IKEA layout. In fact, we've done better than replicate it - it looks better than it ever did in the modern browsers.

There's a few CSS strangenesses and "charms" to iron out, and some of the XHTML doesn't validate on the sub-pages, but it's a start - and, from the emails we've received from users praising the increased download speed and happy whistling of our server, we think it's been a good start.

But we've still got a lot more work to do; the pages with tutorials still need work as the HTML is pulled from a content management system, so we need to retrofit the code in there.  It's been tested on all major Mac and Windows browsers, but there's a lot of code and a lot of pages, so if you see any strange layout anomalies, please drop us a line telling us which browser and operating system you're using.

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Google offers 1 GB free web mail

Google is offering 1,000 beta testers 1 gigabyte of free webmail space, in anticipation of rolling the service out by the end of the year. (This was announced April 1st so I delayed posting it in case it was an April Fool's joke!) Read More
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Dutch Internet blackmailer gets 10 years

The Register reports that a 46-year-old Dutch chip programmer who tried to blackmail dairy giant Campina using the most up-to-date Internet technologies, has been jailed for 10 years - but almost committed the "perfect crime". Read More
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