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Firefox's Market Share Hits 28% in Europe 254

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @05:21PM from the everything-is-upside-down-in-the-old-country dept.

Mitchell's Boy Toy writes "Firefox's market share has hit 28.0% in Europe as of December 2007, according to a French web metrics firm. That's a 20.7% increase from the beginning of 2007. 'Finland currently has the highest Firefox market share in Europe with 45.4 percent, followed by Slovenia with 44.6 percent and Poland with 42.4 percent.' IE share fell to just 66.1% in December, a 0.9 point loss in just a month. It should also be noted that Firefox's success could spell trouble for Opera's antitrust complaint: 'Firefox's continued success in Europe may undermine some of the arguments made by Norwegian browser maker Opera in an antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft in December of last year. Opera accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant position in the web browser market by tying Internet Explorer to Windows.'"

Australian Astronomers Make Interstellar Hologram 22

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @04:59PM from the floaty-transparent-and-informative dept.

KentuckyFC writes "Australian astronomers say the way a beam of light from a pulsar is scattered by interstellar dust is analogous to the way a hologram is made. But to reconstruct an image of this dust, you've got to know what the light was like before it was distorted. With an impressive piece of computer optimization, these astronomers have worked out the 8000 coefficients that determine the light field and so have been able to produce an image of the interstellar medium (abstract on the physics arXiv)."

Comment Re:Classic case neat technology, but no market (Score 2, Interesting) 223

by gjd123 on Thursday June 12, 2003 @10:56PM (#6187780) Attached to: Philips Introduces Mirror TV

As an IT manager at a 5 star hotel in Sydney, Australia - I think that this type of technology enables us to "open up" the space in the room itself - one of the first impressions that Guest get walking into a hotel room is not the artwork but the space.
As for why we don't hang better pictures on a wall is that even without expensive artworks our guest rooms cost around AU$850,00.00+ each to outfit already and as long as it matches the decore no-one notices the "average" art piece. It is in the lobby and other public areas thta the "good" art goes. So that our staff can ensure it doesn't go walkies.

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