Technology

My company just instigated a complete ban on instant messaging clients, supposedly for security reasons....

Firefox 0.9 has been released a few days ago, and it certainly looks worthy of upgrading to (or installing, if you're not using it yet). Joel Spolsky lists three reasons to switch web browsers today. Of particular interest is the following one: You'll help break the Microsoft Monopoly on web browsers....

I just logged into my Yahoo Mail account for the first time in a few days and was alerted to the fact that my storage size has been increased from 6MB to 100MB! For more information, see this article at Wired News. This is a very smart move on Yahoo's side that is bound to take a lot of the steam out of Google's Gmail....

Everybody appears to be very upset about Google's new Gmail service because it analyzes the user's emails in order to deliver targeted ads. Yesterday, California's Senate passed a bill that restricts Gmail by requiring it to perform all analysis in real time, i.e. without storing any information, among other things. Personally, I don't see what the big deal is....

Is it just me, or is there really no good way of sharing bookmarks between Mozilla (or Firefox) and IE? While I used to browse using IE up until recently, I find myself using Firefox most of the time these days, mostly due to its excellent support for tabbed browsing (_does anybody else find it surprising that IE still does not support this feature?_)....