The first beta of Firefox 2.0 is due on Tuesday that is July 11th and Internet Explorer version 7.0 is now on it's third beta release.

Firefox fans and browser junkies have an opportunity to get a jump on Tuesday's beta, as a public "release candidate" has been posted on the Mozilla FTP site.

It has been announced by IBM that Lotus Notes will now be available on Linux, as part of the industry's first business-grade collaboration software to support Linux on the desktop.

The Lotus Notes 7.0 client has been designed to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3. Lotus Notes on Linux is scheduled for release on July 24, and around 90 days therewith, a version for Novell's SuSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 will also be delivered to customers. However, no additional cost will be charged for the use of Notes on Linux, for currently licensed Notes users.

NEW DELHI: Mobile entertainment is set to become a five billion dollar business industry in India in the next two years as mentioned by telecom experts.

"The Value added services market in India is growing very rapidly. Industry should add more innovations in this area to cater to its demands," BSNL Director Finance S D Saxena said at the second international conference on Value Added Services (VAS).

Samsung Electronic Corporation of South Korea has recently unveiled their new NV line of digital cameras. The NV digital cameras can not only take pictures, but play music and videos.

As per a report, there are three models in Samsung's NV lineup including the NV3, NV7 and NV10. The smallest of them is about the height and width of a credit card and less than 2 centimeters thick.

A Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, VIA Technologies has launched a new chip set, that will help reduce the size of ultra mobile PCs by as much as 40 %.

Mobile handset maker Motorola has reportedly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai.