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Fresh off of one takeover, Google finds itself the focus of another whispered rumor, this time involving broadband provider Level 3 Communications.
Last week, Mozilla officially made the second release candidate (RC2) of its popular Firefox browser available for public consumption. As reviews pour in, an interesting debate is brewing amongst developers. Is Firefox 2.0 truly an upgrade from the current incarnation?
With a lot of attention paid to the big number, $1.65 billion, there are some other numbers that illustrate Google's interest in YouTube much better than the price tag. Google CEO Eric Schmidt probably isn't having second thoughts about the acquisition of YouTube.
Justin Uberti announced Saturday that he has left AOL after nearly 10 years as a lead developer for the company's widely utilized AOL Instant Messenger software.
As everyone knew, YouTube was way, way ahead in users and uploaded content. I did some quick checking, on queries like "athens" and "mcdonalds" and found that there were typically between 4X and 12X as many videos uploaded to YouTube as to Google Video. This stuff isn't going away.
There's been a long standing Unix convention of breaking long lines with a "\" to make them easier to read.
