E-commerce Development

Firefox 4 Beta 9: Mozilla Means Business in the Browser Wars
As 2011 begins, browsers will undoubtedly be one of the biggest competitive arenas in all of open source. We've already predicted that users will drift toward a more need-driven model for choosing a particular browser than they ever have before. Google Chrome has been steadily gaining market share, and starting early last year, it began gaining market share while Mozilla Firefox's share has stayed pretty steady. Microsoft's Internet Explorer, of course, still has leading share, but is steadily dropping. For Mozilla, one of the biggest releases of this year will be Firefox 4, a major upgrade of the browser. Last Friday, ...More

Ubuntu Compromises on Banshee Revenue Recipients
Canonical and Ubuntu encountered quite a bit of resistance from its community recently when it changed the default Banshee profit sharing recipient. By default, in Banshee The GNOME Foundation was to receive a portion of revenue from music sales through the AmazonMP3 store. But in a recent Ubuntu 11.04 snapshot, users noticed that recipient was changed to Canonical. After a bit of an uprising from users and Banshee developers, Jono Bacon today announced a compromise.  Ubuntu's original answer was to disable Amazon.com or leave Amazon.com enabled but changing the affiliate code to take a 75% cut. But again, that didn't go ...More