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Accordign to Mozilla Developer News weblog the final version of Mozilla Firefox 3 will be released on Tuesday 17th June.

"After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready," "It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th."

[ Coming Tuesday, June 17th: Firefox 3 ]

Amazon.com the web’s biggest retailer’s Web site was down for two hours today (Friday).

In a post on an Amazon discussion forum for sellers– titled “Amazon Un-Planned Event (06/06)” says “We are currently investigating an issue that has impacted the availability of the Amazon.com Web site. Engineers are actively engaged in resolving this issue, and we will provide an update once the issue is resolved. We appreciate your patience during this time.”

According to New York Times, outages among major Web companies like this are rare nowadays. Back in 1999, eBay went down for 22 hours, costing it millions in revenue.

News.com’s report estimated that Amazon loses $31,000 for every minute it’s unavailable, a 90-minute outage would add up to “merely” $2,790,000.

Image credit: NYT

Indian engineering students have created a virtual computer that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. All it needs is an internet connection.

K Ansar and PP Ismail, final year computer science students at an engineering college in Kerala, have set up www.bloxtr.com , the prototype of a virtual computer in which you can store your documents, favourite music, pictures and even videos.

According to the creators, bloxtr is just a project and they are hoping for investment by corporate firms for the further development of their prototype.

[ Don’t have a laptop? Try the virtual computer ]