Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 8 has been released and can be downloaded now for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.
The latest stable release fixes several bugs including a security issue with paginator links. While this issue should only affect a small number of people, we highly recommend everyone upgrade to this stable version. We do not expect any incompatibilities with your current code, but as always check out the changelog[2] to see all the issues that were fixed.
Pretty awesome to watch the icon shifting over the years. It looks like pretty much everyone who has touched the series put their own mark on the icon.
International Business Machines Corp. is offering to pay at least $6.5 billion, or double Sun's Tuesday closing price of $4.97, The Wall Street Journal reported online earlier.
The region map makes it seem as though the Northeast is rapidly losing population to the South but the states map clarifies the picture... the flow looks to be hundreds of thousands of retirees moving to Florida and Georgia.
A QuickTime stream of Apple's iPhone 3.0 media event has been posted. The event revealed a massive list of new features for developers and end-users which we summarized in a previous post.
Seems if you look for job opportunities with Apple in the province of Manitoba, you'll find a listing for a future opening in Polo Park. Wishful thinking?
Change the table cloth, order drinks, call a cab, all from the projected interface on the table. I particularly like how the preview of the meal is shown right on your empty plate. Clever :)
The Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry have presented the MTS Centre with the Major Facility of the Year (Over 8,000 Capacity) award. The K-Rock Centre in Kingston took home the same award for Under 8,000 Capacity.
Mozilla on Thursday released the third beta version of Firefox 3.1, aka Shiretoko, one of the frontrunners in the current race to improve Web browsers.
A new photo and concept art from the film, starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman.
Misericordia Health Centre has become the first health-care facility in the Winnipeg to offer patients access to the Internet through wireless technology.
Michael Lewis, who is seemingly cranking out 10,000 words a day about finance and sports these days, writes in the pages of Vanity Fair about the Icelandic financial collapse. It's an amazing story.
iTunes 8.1 is now faster and more responsive. You will enjoy noticeable improvements when working with large libraries, browsing the iTunes Store, preparing to sync with iPod or iPhone, and optimizing photos for syncing.
Here's a leaked, 125-page transcript of the brainstorming session that begat Raiders of the Lost Arc, a sit-down in 1978 with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan. Spielberg and Lucas veritably
After years of wrangling, Nina Paley's acclaimed, brilliant short film, Sita Sings the Blues is finally available as a free, open-licensed downloads. Paley spent a shocking amount of time and money fighting over the copyrights to the 1920s jazz music that is integral to the film (some have likened it to Betty Boop in Bollywood, which is catchy, but fails to capture the fantasticness of the film), Paley's finally secured a license that allows her to distribute the whole movie, for free, forever, under a remix-friendly license.