After the succesull launch of Firefox 1.0, your open-source experience is now complete with the recent launch of Thunderbird 1.0 e-mail client.
The only 5.8 MB download, is getting you a lot of great features:
• Significant theme improvements;
• Migration improvements for Outlook 2003, Eudora and Mozilla Suite users;
• Saved Search Folder Improvements
• Message Grouping Improvements
• Improved RSS support
My Hotmail account got finally upgraded, well too late after Yahoo! did its upgrade, and after I switched to Gmail.
On the other side, it seems that the field of war between the three giants is getting bigger and bigger as Yahoo! annouced another upgrade to their email account storage as well as some other improvements.
If you are in technology business or just interested in the subject you may find interesting this Business Week article Tech’s Top 10 Trends
Well, after Microsoft was engaged, with or without its wish, in the IE vs. Firefox Browsers War, it seems that the Redmont guys just play hard.
Today Microsoft just launched its own improved MSN Search engine. Google, on the other hand, just annouced that they nearly doubled the web pages they have in their index to 8 billion (and here is the answer to all the webmasters wondering what happened with the intense Googlebot activity last week). Now, this is a war to follow up!:)
UPDATE: Search wars – which is the best?, an interesting BBC comparison of the major search engines on the market.
After more than 8 million downloads of the Preview Release, Firefox 1.0 was released today for download.
Google is honouring this event with a special Firefox search page on http://www.google.com/firefox
With consumers disclosing their most intimate secrets online (voluntarily!), Google has essentially created a ‘domestic database’, i.e. a world-wide database loaded with your customers’ details and profiles, with a depth of information your company’s database can only dream of. So it seems that more and more companies are taking the chance and use Google to search for their customers (and not only) on-line.
On the other hand, a recent study shows that men talk to their search engines more than their girlfriends, work colleagues or even their families.
So, here is a Google Cheatsheet that will help you improve your googling and probably save some time online.
Put the power of Google Searches right in your own computer and search inside mails, Internet explorer, text files and MS Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). For 
other file types (including .mp3 and .pdf), Desktop Search usually makes at least the file name searchable. Desktop Search does not search compressed files.
Unfortunately web pages which you viewed with Firefox aren’t added to the Desktop Search index, however, so you won’t be able to find them with Desktop Search but Google is considering “adding increased Firefox support in a future version of Desktop Search”.Same thing with Mozilla Thunderbird.
After this move I am wondering again whatever is happening with Microsoft lately, except for trying to fill the security holes in their (sometimes) up and running operating systems.
Enough talking just go and download your own Google Desktop Search.
Yahoo is launching a new version of its home page. Even if it’s get way more streamlined than the old one, I have to admit is still too fullof things I will never use. Well thery’re excused since I personalised MyYahoo! section of the page the way I wanted it.
Here are some of the improvements:
– New items include a weather report users can customize and a “Buzz Log” that analyzes Web search logs to highlight newly popular search queries worldwide
– customizable navigation buttons
– a way more streamlined directory (uhh I love this part)
– one search box lets you search web sites, news, images, products, and more with the Yahoo! new search capabillities
You can read more about the new design and set up your new Yahoo! frontpage here: http://www.yahoo.com/upgrade
Again about the Browsers War I mentioned here before, now curiously, an article on the MSNBC site, Better browser now the best. I really wonder what will be the next Microsoft move on this.
Yahoo! started the beta for MyYahoo! Search, where you can now save, block, share whatever searches you’ve made, or search among your saved search results.