New Firefox and Opera Coming Soon.

Firefox 3.5 'Web upgrade' planned for end of June

Mozilla plans to issue a release candidate for Firefox 3.5 on Friday and the final version by the end of the month. The browser, code-named Shiretoko, began its life as a modest 3.1 upgrade. But as Mozilla's ambitions expanded and other browsers such as Google Chrome exerted competitive pressure, the new Firefox was promoted to version 3.5 and its planned ship date slid back several months.

Opera 10 with Unite Turns PCs Into Servers for Content

Norwegian browser company Opera Software has released an alpha version of Unite, software that turns a computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to distribute content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for traditional Web servers.  This one could be quite interesting!

Google's censorship struggles continue in China

Google was going to help democratize data in China. Instead, about three years after entering the Middle Kingdom, the search company still finds itself in an uncomfortable working relationship with government censors.

The Perfect Mobile Phone Is (Nearly) Here

As the world begins to adjust to the mobile phone as a computing platform, we have to recognize the fact that for many people the device is bound to become the complete substitute for all computing needs.  By John C. Dvorak.

Why enterprises are moving to Google Apps, Gmail

Businesses are finding they can simplify IT and reduce the number of in-house servers while maintaining key functionality by moving to Google's hosted applications.  Maybe their conversion might be useful for you to know about.

Editors Note: This note is for those of you who get my blogs via e-mail. One of my faithful readers notified me yesterday that he was receiving junk e-mail from someone who was using my GoogleGroups account, the one I use to distribute both my blogs to subscribers via e-mail.  I too had received the same junk mail, but hadn’t noticed its source.  I scoured my GoogleGroups membership list and found the person responsible and immediately banned them for life.  So, you should not be receiving any more junk mail from some slimeball named Rachael.  My apologies for not catching this sooner.