"I'm sure what most of you care the most about are the facts, and so I've compiled the results of the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test for each of the different browsers. All of the tests below were performed on the same Windows machine, and the Firefox 3 nightly builds definitely came out on top." reported Ryan from CyberNet.   "It's important to ...

Mads B. Westmark and Jesper Rønn-Jensen have some great quotes for the agile project wall. The quote below is what Jesper likes best: "Small agile teams where we can show and tell - make working software and prototypes very fast in close collaboration with clients." And here are some other interesting quotes: "Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses ...

Everyone talks about Microsoft's $45 billion offer for Yahoo these days and, on the other hand, it is seen by many here as just what is needed to repel another monopolist in the making: Google. "We would prefer to see a healthy Microsoft and Yahoo," says Geoff Yang, a venture capitalist with Redpoint Ventures and an early investor in Internet-based companies. ...

Offline access to Google Docs is being tested as this screenshot shown: For sure, you'll need Google Gears -- a browser extension for Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+ to facilitate offline functionality in web applications through JavaScript APIs -- installed. Enabling offline access and confirming the security warning for Google Gears, your documents will start to synchronize -- process looks the ...

Finally, after many rumors of a (big) upcoming IPO, MySQL AB has been acquired by Sun for 1$ billion instead. MySQL had raised a total of $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP. Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote about the acquisition on his blog: "But the biggest news of the day is... we're putting a billion dollars behind ...

Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang showed glimpse into the future of Yahoo: “At Yahoo we want to be most essential starting point for your life,” and “take the complexity of the Web and simplify your life through very powerful technologies,” in his inaugural CES appearance. Yang also showed that Yahoo Mail will serve as the hub, but open interface to ...