New Media + IT

The lead translater of the Danish version of open source blogging software WordPress, René, writes on the official WordPress DK blog, that WordPress 2.4 has been cancelled.
The reason is that there are too many corrections to be made, and therefore WP 2.4 could not be ready until March. The next WordPress release will be 2.5, [...]

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[ categorized as: Blogs, CMS, Internet, News, Open source ]

Apparently Google has bought microblogging service Jaiku, the Jaiku team writes:
Exciting news: Google has bought Jaiku today.
What does that mean? First and foremost, we’re of course continuing to support our existing users. So fear not: your Jaiku phone, the Web site, IM, SMS, and API will continue to work normally.
The acquisition means that Jaiku has [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Internet, Mobile, News ]

I just noticed that the Mozilla Calendar project (Sunbird) is now at version 0.6a.
I haven't seen any new features yet (I mostly use it to subscribe to my Google Calendar), and the only other place I've seen anything about this is at a blog called Hartwork blog.
A search at Mozilla.org for "sunbird 0.6a" or "calendar [...]

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[ categorized as: News, Software ]

If you like testing, you'd might like to know that beta 1 of WordPress is out now.
I just took it for a quick test drive and I must say it looks nice. I saw some features to make administration easier and faster, but I can't give you a long list of new features to come [...]

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[ categorized as: CMS, News ]

To all alpha testers: Mozilla has now released Alpha 2 of Minefield, the name of the browser versions built off the Firefox trunk.
You can download Alpha 2 (firefox-3.0a2pre) from the Mozilla Nightly FTP directory.
Note: I was using Minefield Alpha 1, and I didn't get noticed of the Alpha 2 via auto update but had to [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, News, Open source, Software ]

Mozilla has just release Firefox 2.0.0.1 with some security fixes.
View the Firefox 2.0.0.1 release notes and the list of security issues fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.1.
Get Firefox.
Mozillas has also just released Firefox version 1.5.0.9 and Thunderbird 1.5.0.9.
If everything works as planned users of Firefox 2, Firefox 1.5.x and Thunderbird 1.5.x should recieve these as auto-updates.
And, from [...]

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Mozilla has just launched Thunderbird 2 Beta 1. From MozillaZine:
Mozilla Thunderbird 2 Beta 1 has been released. Features new to Thunderbird 2 include message tags, folder views, session navigation history, a visual refresh of the theme, and improved new mail notification alerts.
Read more at MozillaZine.
The Thunderbird 2 Beta 1 release notes.

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[ categorized as: E-mail, News, Open source, Software ]

Mozilla has now released the Alpha 1 of their Gran Paradiso, which is the code and/or project name for Firefox 3.
Among the news regarding Firefox 3, is the Cairo graphics library, but I'm wondering…where is Places? There is something written about the absence of Places in Grand Paradiso in the Mozilla wiki:
Note: Places has been [...]

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Corel is now going to distribute the open source browser Firefox with Corel WordPerfect Office X3 – Home Edition. Read the press release.
Found via Asa Dotzler's blog.

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[ categorized as: Browsers, News, Open source ]