Firefox 3.0 opens door to Web apps, Mozilla says

Perhaps most exciting could be Firefox's ability to support writing an e-mail in, for example, Gmail while offline, with the data sent later when a user is connected to the Internet again. Ultimately, Mozilla engineers are aiming for an integration between the browser and Web-based services that is as smooth-running as a desktop application.

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Patenting Life

Op-Ed New York Times contributor Michael Chrichton on Patenting Life:

YOU, or someone you love, may die because of a gene patent that should never have been granted in the first place. Sound far-fetched? Unfortunately, it’s only too real.

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Vista successor "Vienna" planned for late 2009

Now that Microsoft has freed Windows Vista from the shackles of a five year development process, the company is attempting to the wow starts now us by revealing that it plans to have its next major operating system ready within the next two-and-a-half years, giving Vista's successor an expected release date of late 2009.

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LIFT 2007

I am currently at LIFT 2007 a conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society held 7-8-9 February 2007 Geneva, Switzerland. The 2006 version was great and the program for 2007 also looks enticing.

LIFT 2007

A great blog about standards

Andy Updegrove is keeping an amazing blog about standards at http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/. If you are into the saga of ODF vs MS OOXML read more here.
A great read!