Netscape market share drops 40 per cent

Netscape's share of the Web browser market has fallen from 12 to seven per cent over the past seven months according to new figures. StatMarket.com reports that Netscape's share, which had remained fairly steady, has fallen since the release of Internet Explorer (IE) 6, which can now claim 30 per cent of Internet users. ...more

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UK, US, Aus agree on international plan to wipe out spam

The spam cops from the US, Australia and the UK are to pool their efforts to stamp out illegal spammers. The agreement is set out in a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the governments of the three countries which recognises that spam is an international problem which cannot be tackled by countries on their own. The agreement states that the countries wherever possible to co-operate in the identification, evidence gathering and prosecution of spammers within the national borders under the provisions of the relevant local laws. ...more

Firefox bug causes breakup with fianc

Step 9 is 'Break-up with fianc?', but steps 1 to 8 detail a bug in Firefox's password manager submitted to Mozilla's Bugzilla flaw reporting service. According to the details of the bug, Firefox isn't very good at keeping details between XP accounts separate, causing the account holders in this case to, well, separate. Just how this particular privacy issue ended up in a relationship breakdown emerges from the bug report. ...more

Mozilla pitches first release candidate for Thunderbird 2

Mozilla has announced the Release Candidate 1 of the next version of its Thunderbird email client. Following on from the last beta release in December, the release candidate establishes new features including Message Tags that enable the creation of custom tags for organising email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags that can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organise email. ...more