How my web site was hijacked (3)

In some ways it seems that the more progress we see as far as Windows-based application software, the slower things become and the more bits and pieces that we never use are stuffed into successive releases. I'd like to see a slimmer Windows and Office in the next release.

Industry news

FireFox 3 is available in beta and by the time you read this it might be ready for the average user to try it out. Changes include a faster page rendering engine, one-click bookmarking, better downloading support that included a progress bar and built in virus checking. Security has also been improved and Extended Validation SSL certificates and stricter SSl page control has been added. Mozilla is also offering live support for FireFox users.

Amazon started it in the US but Play.com beat them across the pond by being the first in the UK to offer legal digital rights management (DRM)-free music downloads with major label backing, OK so far it's only EMI. No Apple has legal DRM-free downloads as well in the UK but only for its AAC play on iPod only format. Amazon has four of the big players in the US.

The tracks will be sold at a very respectable 320Kbits/s from Play.com, compared to the 256Kbits/s encoding from Apple and Amazon. For the most part 256Kbits/s is fine for digital downloads, as far as the average human ear is concerned at least.

Source – Bangkok Post