A company that was just awarded more than $140 million from Microsoft in a patent-infringement suit has sued the software giant again, this time for alleged infringements in Windows Vista and Office 2007.

The circle of life continues at Microsoft. The software giant, desperate to freeze a market, has started evangelizing a “new” version of Windows (called MinWin) that will correct Windows Vista’s bloatware problems. But don’t blame Microsoft for the noise about MinWin and Windows 7.0... (due in 2010 supposedly)

"...I wager that most of the technically-adept Mozilla community, who should be the first people to test new versions of the browser and file high quality bug reports, have a large set of addons they can't do without. And until those addons are available for Firefox 3.0b1, they won't be migrating - or will do so only for dedicated testing sessions, not every-day browsing..."

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk-l10n/

Like Cinderella's glass slipper, the OLPC will have efforts made to fit XP into it. Not the full version with heel and toes, but a cut down version, maybe the $3 version? After the limited field trials beginning in January, Windows XP for the XO could be available in the second half of 2008, Microsoft said.

"Apparently, if you get your iPhone + iPhone-specific subscription plan from Orange in France, your iPhone often receives SMS that the iPhone never shows. These SMS appear normally if you use your SIM card with another telephone. According to the french version of The Inquirer, these SMS are here to check the SIM card is used inside an iPhone..."

For french readers: http://formats-ouverts.org/blog/2007/12/05/1420-ces-formats-qui-ne-montr...

"...While supporting HTML5 would be nice, the fact that MSIE7 won’t allow CSS rules to apply to any of the new HTML5 elements will significantly inhibit adoption of this standard."

"So. This week it seems to be about privacy. Not so much me, but the fabulous workings of my government's leadership, who by the way, I did not vote for. [...] Finally, this week is the likely the week that the Canadian version of the DMCA, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, is to be tabled..."

"The CNIL (Comission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, National Comission of Computing and Liberties) has finally given his agreement to the SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique, Company of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers) on spying P2P network to spot illegally transfered files but also to collect IP address of internet users..."