Monday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 14, 2005 at 11:12:38 PM
Can Firefox continue to gain marketshare? With IE7 on the horizon, is Firefox's days numbered?
Meteor in your backyards.
Blackberry to be even more obnoxious by offering YIM and AIM.
Doom 3 coming to Mac. Nobody cares.
Visual Basic developers want VB6 support to stay. VB.NET is totally different than VB6.
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Given the security concerns of browser users, it is possible that Firefox could keep growing. Yet WebSideStory CEO Jeff Lunsford reports that usage of Firefox has slowed slightly since a big surge in November. "This is probably to be expected as we move beyond the early-adopter segment," says Lunsford in an analysis accompanying WebSideStory's market share statistics. "Back in December 2004, it seemed Firefox was a lock to reach 10 percent by mid-2005, ahead of the reported year-end goal of the Mozilla Foundation. Given the latest growth rates, the year-end target still appears attainable, but a midyear achievement is unlikely unless we see increased marketing activity from the Mozilla Foundation."
Meteor in your backyards.
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Scientists said the flaming object was probably a meteor, and that it likely disintegrated before any fragments fell into the Pacific Ocean.
Blackberry to be even more obnoxious by offering YIM and AIM.
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RIM is also working with America Online to include AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ services on the BlackBerry, besides offering AOL's mobile mail service. BlackBerry users will get access to their AOL Buddy List feature or ICQ contact list for chatting on both networks. No schedule was given for when the services would be available.
Doom 3 coming to Mac. Nobody cares.
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Apple is beating Microsoft in one more metric--Martian zombie blasting--with this week's release of a Mac version of "Doom 3" several weeks before the Xbox version is set to materialize. Developer Id Software and publisher Activision released the initial Windows version of "Doom 3," one of the most hotly anticipated games of the past few years, last summer.
Visual Basic developers want VB6 support to stay. VB.NET is totally different than VB6.
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The problem, say the dissenting developers, is that when Microsoft made Visual Basic.Net (or Visual Basic 7) the successor to VB6, it actually killed one language and replaced it with a fundamentally different one. It's effectively impossible to migrate VB6 applications to VB.Net, and for VB6 developers, learning VB.Net is as complex as learning a completely new programming language, critics say.