I came across a few interesting web sites that gather statistics on browser and operating system usage. These are Net Applications.com and W3Schools. The figures vary between the two sites but if you look closer you can see both show a common market trend. Net Applications.com for example shows the Firefox browser having a market [...]

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Further to my previous post on the Ubuntu 6.10 release date it looks like they are gearing up for the release later on today. The Ubuntu home page has been updated to reflect the new release.

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WordPress are now offering users the chance to map their WordPress blog to another domain. My blog is currently technicalitch.wordpress.com. I have a separate technical-itch.co.uk domain registered elsewhere which currently redirects to technicalitch.wordpress.com. This is advance warning that I plan to map my blog to the technical-itch.co.uk domain later on today. If the move is [...]

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I was reading an article over at Techcrunch about a startup company called Scrybe that are developing an online productivity suite. At the moment the company has a demo on YouTube of the product which will be available as a beta release soon. You can sign up for a beta account when it is released [...]

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The next release of Ubuntu, codename Edgy Eft, is on course for release on October 26th. The whole team seemed to have done a good job of keeping the release on schedule. If you look at the Edgy Release Schedule you can see that the release date hasn’t slipped at all.

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Further to my post on when will the UK broadband revolution will arrive, BT has now launched a web site where you can check when 21CN (21st Century Network) services will be available in your area.

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According to the MSDN blogs, Internet Explorer 7 will be available for download later this month, and will be delivered via automatic updates starting November 1st.

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Back in August I was blogging about whether the UK will ever get really fast broadband. At the moment most people in the UK can get ‘up to 8Mb download speeds’. I use that term lightly since the majority of us will never see speeds that quick due to contention and distance from the local [...]

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