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• Looking towards IPv6 1 day, 20 hours ago
  
  We care a lot about the health of the Internet. Recently, we've become increasingly concerned that IPv4 addresses — the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet — are running out. Current projections place IPv4 address space exhaustion somewhere in late 2011, and while technologies such as Network Address Translation (NAT) can offer temporary respite, they complicate the Internet's architecture, pose barriers to the development of new applications, and run contrary to network openness principles.
• Opera 9.27 Review: Part II 1 week, 2 days ago
  
  As I discussed in Part I, Opera has made some amazing strides. The browser's RSS reader, add-ons, and other levels of functionality are certainly something to marvel at for sure. But there are still more areas that Opera has made strides in, so in this final installment, I will discuss each of them.
• Mozilla Nearing the Finish Line for Firefox 3.0 1 week, 3 days ago
  
  Mozilla is nearing the finish line for the latest version of its open source browser. Firefox 3.0 was initially planned for launch by the end of 2007, but Mozilla pushed the delivery deadline back all the way to mid 2008 in an effort to soften all the rough edges of the browser. It appears that the trade has paid off, as Firefox 3.0 reflects the focus on quality even from Beta 5 stage, ahead of the first Release Candidate. Firefox 3.0 RC1 was announced as early as the debut of April 2008, but so far, the release candidate has yet to be made available. Mozilla has already begun looking ahead to the launch of version 3.0 of Firefox.
• Amazon sues New York over Internet tax 1 week, 5 days ago
  
  The online retailer mounts a constitutional challenge to the controversial state law that aims to clamp down on collecting Internet sales taxes.
• Mozilla speaks out against the free but proprietary Web 1 week, 6 days ago
  
  Mozilla Europe's founder Tristan Nitot has no problem with free software. Indeed, his organization has created some of the best of it....
• Senate to Tackle Net Neutrality This Week 3 weeks, 4 days ago
  
  Lawmakers are slated to hold a hearing Tuesday to examine some of the major issues that lie in the nebulous crossroads of technology and government.
• Here Comes IPv6... Guess Who is Not Ready 1 month ago
  
  In about 100 days, the United States Federal Government will be required to be running large portions of their systems on IPv6. Now, for the few non-technical in the crowd, it means that the address your PC uses to connect to the Internet, in most cases, is IPv4. Version 4 has been around almost since most of you started networking your machines to the Internet (it was around in the early '90s when I started doing all of this). IP version 6, which debuted in 1995 was designed to "fix" some of the things that were broken in IPv4, such as the limited address space (it may surprise you but there are only so many addresses in IPv4 that can be allocated). IPv6 increases the address space to some ridiculous number like 1000 per cubic meter of the Earth - in other words A LOT!.
• N.Y. lawmakers near vote on 'Amazon Tax' 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  Hotly debated provision could rewrite the rules of e-commerce.
• Grooving XML - tutorial 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  A two piece tutorial from TechBookReport which looks at how you can use the Groovy programming language to read, write and process XML.
• Firefox reaches 18 percent of corporate desktops 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Mozilla Firefox's share of the enterprise desktop market has reached 18 percent, according to a new Forrester report noted by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
• Mozilla's Asa Dotzler on Firefox, Fighting Bloat and the Problem with Democracy 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Asa Dotzler has been there from the beginning. As Mozilla's director of community development, he's had a hand in birthing some of the web's most successful open-source software projects, most notably the Mozilla and Firefox web browsers.
• Mobile Web Browsing: What Optimized Sites Leave Out 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  Mobile operating systems are obviously much different than their bigger brothers. They have different requirements, usage patterns, functionality, and so on. When you’re on your home computer, it seems as if anything goes, but mobile platforms are more limited in certain ways, and that’s just the nature of the beast.
• Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  A new version of Mozilla's popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft Corp's dominant Internet Explorer.
• User revolts on social networks: They're here to stay 2 months, 1 week ago
  
  A South by Southwest Interactive panel touches on what happens when social-media sites from Digg to Second Life are hit with angry users.
• FCC Chairman says 'balance' is key to Net Neutrality 2 months, 1 week ago
  
  Discusses Comcast, Net Neutrality and other issues at Stanford confab.
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