Firefox 3.0 overtakes the aged IE 6, reaching 24% of the web share to IE 6's 22.6% and is gaining on IE 7's 40.8% share:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/03/04/firefox.overtakes.ie6/
Microsoft's suit against Tom-Tom appears to be designed to make them violate the GPL or switch to Microsoft code throughout:
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1953&blogid=14
How to mark your competitors as being "Closed" on Google Maps:
http://www.webguild.org/2009/03/place-closed-in-google-maps-close-your-competitors-down-on-google.php
Is 12 megapixels enough for anyone? Olympus seem to think so. Time to focus on the quality of the rest of the camera, they say:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/03/why-weve-reached-the-end-of-the-camera-megapixel-race.ars
The US puts free trade talks with New Zealand on ice, lessening the pressure to introduce S92A of the copyright act:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/2120288/Obama-cans-FTA-Key-deeply-disappointed
YouTube to cut music videos to the UK as licencing talks with the Performing Rights Society fail:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm
Labour's Clare Curran invites organisations affected by copyright legislation to a series of informal talks:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2130185/Curran-issues-copyright-talks-invitation
Windows 7's User Account Control (UAC) is called "A broken mess" by Ars Technica, and exploits abound already:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/03/opinion-ms-should-kill-win7-uac.ars
And finally. A badly-behaved chimp in Sweden throws rocks at his visitors, and even makes more from concrete if they're taken away:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16726-missilethrowing-chimp-plots-attacks-on-tourists.html
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