The award-winning Web browser just got better. It’s free and easy to try. Join the millions of people worldwide enjoying a better Web experience.One year after the debut of Firefox 1.0, and more than 100 million downloads later, Mozilla Corp. is releasing Firefox 1.5, the latest version of its open source Web browser, available now as a free download. The team says Firefox 1.5 delivers an improved browser with significant performance and usability upgrades, security and privacy enhancements, support for Web standards, and greater customization options.
Firefox 1.5 has been enhanced in several areas. User experience is improved, with a new "drag and drop" feature for tabbed browsing, an improved pop-up blocker, improved Live Bookmarks feature, and improved Options interface for easier to adjust browser settings.
A new automatic update system alerts users and prompts them to act when security and functionality updates become available, allowing users to have the most up-to-date browser at any time. With Firefox 1.5, Mozilla continues its search partnership with Google in the Americas and in Europe and begins a new search relationship with Yahoo! in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
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International travellers will become Google's guinea pigs for the next three weeks, with the launch of a new internet laboratory at London's Heathrow airport.
The Google Space lab will house a number of internet "pods", offering free web access to those travelling through the airport until December 17.The company is using its success in search engine technology to extend its tentacles into a host of new ventures. Google Space will be manned by staff from the company who will offer advice to users and glean feedback on the services, much like a focus group study.
The company said a survey of 1826 British passengers showed that 71 per cent would like to use the time spent waiting for flights to find out more about their destinations.
Topping the list of topics of interest from respondents were a map of their destination, weather forecasts and tourist information. A quarter said they would also like to send email.
Google has not ruled out becoming a recognised physical presence in airports, stations and even high streets around the world, it said in an interview with the BBC in Britain.
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'The Google Story' isn't the definitive guide to the search giant, but it is a thorough primer.When Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin declared in their IPO prospectus "don't be evil" as a modus operandi and vowed to ignore short-term results, the Securities and Exchange Commission wasn't pleased.
And what an astoundingly large amount of history there is, considering that the company began just seven years ago as the outgrowth of doctoral research the founders did at Stanford University.
For the uninitiated, Vise's book is a thorough primer on everything from the childhoods of the founders to its battles with Microsoft and its impact on the advertising industry.As such, this book will make you very well informed about Google without exactly putting you on a first-name basis with its executives. For that, you'll have to read the company's securities filings.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner's AOL said on Monday it planned to launch a free Internet television service by early 2006, in one of the technology and media industry's most ambitious designs to reach TV viewers online. Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and Google Inc. threaten to bypass traditional media outlets by linking computer users with TV shows online, striking partnerships with programmers, or create it themselves, but what they lack AOL now possess in abundance -- the shows themselves.
Over time, Warner Bros. could add up to 14,000 episodes from 300 series it has currently cleared with rights holders, executives said. AOL is also currently in talks with "every major provider" to offer shows not owned by Time Warner, Kevin Conroy, executive vice president of AOL media networks said in an interview.
Indeed, with some 112 million unique monthly visitors to AOL's online properties, the company has been quickly restructuring the company to attract even more by offering more free programing, through which it can sell online advertising to offset a quickly declining dial-up subscriber base.
Jupiter's Chanko, who is a media industry veteran, said he saw the future of TV in free, advertising-driven business models. Selling shows directly to consumers on a per episode basis, although interesting, could face problems at a time when monthly cable bills average about $40 and rising each year.
In the foreseeable future, however, In2TV, will only feature backlog shows that are not currently on syndication on other channels to sidestep conflicts with existing distribution agreements.
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$50 million to settle piracy complaints. Executives plan legal, fee-based downloading service before end of year under new parent companyGrokster Ltd., which lost a U.S. Supreme Court fight over file-sharing software used for stealing songs and movies online, agreed yesterday to shut down and pay $50 million to settle piracy complaints by Hollywood and the music industry.
The surprise settlement permanently bans Grokster from participating, directly or indirectly, in the theft of copyrighted files and requires the company to stop giving away its software, according to court papers.
"It is time for a new beginning," Grokster said in a statement issued from its corporate headquarters in the West Indies.Grokster's website was changed yesterday to say its existing file-sharing service was illegal and no longer available. "There are legal services for downloading music and movies," the message said. "This service is not one of them."
The head of the Recording Industry Association of America, Mitch Bainwol, described the settlement as "a chapter that ends on a high note for the recording industry, the tech community and music fans and consumers everywhere."
It was unclear whether Grokster can afford to pay the $50 million in damages required under the agreement. The head of the Motion Picture Association of America, Dan Glickman, said the entertainment industry will demand full payment unless Grokster satisfies all its obligations under the settlement.
The decision, which gave a green light for the federal case to advance in Los Angeles, significantly weakened lawsuit protections for companies that had blamed illegal behaviour on their own customers rather than the technology that made such behaviour possible.
The court said Grokster and another firm, Streamcast Networks Inc., can be sued because they deliberately encouraged customers to download copyrighted files illegally so they could build a larger audience and sell more advertising. Writing for the court, Justice David H. Souter said the companies' "unlawful objective is unmistakable."
The Supreme Court noted as evidence of bad conduct that Grokster and Streamcast made no effort to block illegal downloads, which the companies maintained wasn't possible.
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