Some time has passed since the last update to Firefox, don't you think? Anyway, Firefox just got a new update a few hours ago, so here you have it - ladies and gentlemen, Firefox just got update to version 2.0.0.12! What's new? To be honest, I have no idea yet, but we'll discover that together in just a few moments...


Unfortunately, it seems there's no big deal about the new Firefox. In fact, we couldn't expect too much from a minor update - after all, this is Firefox 2.0.0.12, not Firefox 3 (hopefully, we'll get that before next Christmas...). According to the Mozilla site, "This release fixes a number of security and stability issues discovered in Firefox 2.0.0.11.", and nothing more. These being said, let's see what issues have been solved by this update, shall we?

Well, it seems I was a bit wrong, because we have the update which fixes most flaws since Firefox 1.5.0.5! Pretty impressive, although only 3 of the 10 vulnerabilities fixed were critical. Of the remaining issues fixed, one had a high impact, 3 were moderate, and the remaining 3 were minor security vulnerabilities.

Now, there's only one thing remaining, if you didn't do it already, especially if you didn't enable "Automatically check for updates" - go to the Help menu, choose "Check for updates", and be sure to update your Firefox browser!

If one of the neighbours I don't really like would have plans to sell his house to be turned into a club, I would make him an offer twice the value of his house. This way, even if he wouldn't sell to me, he would probably ask more from its other buyer, and the whole deal may go down the drain for them. This is not really nice, but it's not really illegal either, and according to the last rumors, Microsoft may be doing something similar with their bid to buy Yahoo...

Microsoft, bluffing? Well, that wouldn't be their first time, and this time, even if they were serious, it seems the situation turned upside-down. According to analysts, while Microsoft's shares are slowly losing value, Yahoo is going right up. In the week that passed since they announced the bid, Microsoft's share price went down, so they may add some additional outstanding shares to the offer.But, what deal was trying to pull off Yahoo, in case Microsoft is really bluffing?

Global Equities Research's Trip Chowdhry thinks Amazon was on the way of buying Yahoo, and Microsoft's offer pushed up Yahoo's value just in time to fend off Amazon. Could this be true? We'll leave it in the "rumors" category for now, but it's something we may need to remember one day, because if it doesn't happen this month, or this year, one day such a thing may happen.

In my opinion, Yahoo must survive as a standalone company. They can pull it off, I am sure of that, but we first must see the official statement saying Microsoft's bid was rejected, and then... time will tell, as usual!

Cagliari Corporation is a company known for their trueSpace all-in-one 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software, with over 20 years of experience in the field. Their flagship product, trueSpace, was introduced to the Windows platform back in 1994, when version 1.0 became available, after previous releases for other platforms, but this is all history now, because Microsoft just bought the company...

Well, maybe Yahoo won't accept their bid, but since Microsoft got out on a shopping spree, they can't get back with empty pockets. To be honest, I wasn't expecting to see trueSpace's creators sell out anytime soon, but that's life, so let's see why did this happen and what should we expect in the future, shall we?

According to Roman Ormandy, Cagliari's CEO and founder, their development team will work with the Virtual Earth group, to improve Microsoft's Virtual Earth mapping system, while the company will become one of Microsoft's wholly owned subsidiaries.

"Now we will have more resources to rely on, larger market to consider and I hope more fun doing that.", concluded Ormandy, while Microsoft didn't make any additional comments yet, but I hope only one thing, that they won't drop trueSpace in favor of Virtual Earth 3D, especially since they are two different products, each with its own market.