Happy Birthday, Firefox   On November 9, 2004, Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 debuted and quickly became a serious contender in the ongoing browser wars. At the time, Microsoft's Internet Explorer dominated the market with a 99 percent market share. Five years later, Internet Explorer still reigns at 65 percent, but Firefox comes in second with an impressive 23 percent.     Firefox currently has 330 million users worldwide, and celebrated its 1 billionth download in July. The celebration Continue Reading

  Microsoft has announced today at the Eclipse Summit Europe new solutions that help developers using the Eclipse platform take advantage of the new features in Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, and reinforce Java and PHP interoperability with Windows Azure and Microsoft Silverlight. “Enabling customers to better manage their dynamic IT systems is one of today’s real market opportunities for developers. Microsoft’s goal with these interoperability projects is to further open Continue Reading

For all of you open source and UBUNTU lovers of The Technology Cafe, there is good news. Today Canonical announced that its’ latest Linux and popular open source OS offering Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server Edition, will be available for free download on Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large that all have a common purpose - to make Ubuntu the most user-friendly operating system available. Ubuntu 9.10 features a redesigned, faster boot and login experience, a revamped Continue Reading