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Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.6 will not be released this week as originally anticipated.  Instead, the new version of the web browser will be available on October 21.  This falls on the day before the release of the new Windows 7.  The update will include added support for the… Continue Reading »

Microsoft gets a lot of flack for not following web standards in Internet Explorer.  In the past couple of years, MS has made an active move to become more standards compliant.  If you downloaded the latest version of Firefox, you may have seen the HTML5 video tag in action.  It… Continue Reading »

Welcome back to InterrupTech.  Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry.  We cover Take Two’s $20M settlement, Apple’s 09/09/09 event, the GMail fail, Skype gets sold, and plenty more. Continue Reading »

The easiest way to get anybody to use your software is to pack it into their brand new PCs.  While most of us hate the software pre-packaged trial software that comes bundled with a new PC, there’s no doubt that its an easy way to get the software out to… Continue Reading »

As expected, Opera 10 is available for download as of today, and while it may not be as popular as other browsers such as Firefox, or have the hype that tends to surround Chrome, it is worth checking out. A version is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux… Continue Reading »

Yesterday was a big day for Chrome in terms of being able to sync and backup your bookmarks.  We saw not one, but two methods for syncing and backing up your bookmarks get announced.  Unfortunately, at this time both options require the user to be running the latest dev build… Continue Reading »

This morning, I surfed over to Walmart.com on my iPhone looking for a dinghy anchor, of all things and was met with the new iPhone Beta version of their site.  “Wow, this is great” I thought as I looked through everything including a shopping list that was just like a… Continue Reading »

The multifaceted Creative Zii Egg comes with a load of interesting features.  Unfortunately, not much is known about the device partly because it is so new and isn’t ready for prime time action.  However, today, Creative announced that the Zii Egg would be running the Opera Devices SDK 9.7 mobile… Continue Reading »

Google released a new beta of their Chrome browser today posting a claimed 30% gain in speed as well as some new feature improvements.  One of the big additions is themes allowing the browser to more like Microsoft’s Bing search engine that has been moving up the search charts.  Bing… Continue Reading »

On Friday, Firefox officially surpassed its one billionth download - a very impressive feat for any application.  To celebrate, Mozllia launched One Billion + You, a site dedicated to thanking the audience that brought it to the milestone.  The site also points out the benefits of the web, from the… Continue Reading »