(1)Firefox even in its Beta Stage is faster than most of the commercial browsers :)

Quote from Computer World “According to Percy Cabello, on the Mozilla Links blog, Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 is 53 percent faster than Opera 9.5 beta, twice as fast as Apple’s Safari and three times faster than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) on the SunSpider benchmark, which tests JavaScript performance.”

( I am trying to build Firefox 3 beta 4 on my Suse Desktop ,, and would write my experience once i get past my universities mandatory final year work load )

(2) Digg has its Open Source Cousin named FSDaily (Free Software Daily) , i am trying it and it seem to be cool place to hang around for latest Open Source news :)

(3) GCC 4.3 was released on March 5th (news is bit stale ,i know :) )

(4) Emotional Robots , are being developed by Professors James Little from Computer Science & Elisabeth Croft from Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC) ,for further details go to here
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I got this video from “http://smart-machines.blogspot.com/” , a very good Technical Blog hope he doesn’t mind , my using this video :)
(5)and finally EU (European Union ) is planning to get more Open Sourced OS (read ,Linux ) in lieu of Microsoft Windows .. partly due to internal pressure (low cost) , and partly thanks to The fine EU slapped on Microsoft .(for more go here )

(6) after enough Microsoft bashing , i think we should laud Microsoft for their funding / research of Pseudo Translucent display device this User interface is really revolutionary whenever it will reach in hands of consumers ,

(thanks to Device Guru , for this image ,, go to his post for further details )

here is You tube video of The Display to let you understand the concept :)

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