Today Opera has launched a new education system that aims to teach all you need to know about Web Standard based development - "a course designed to give anyone a solid grounding in web design/development, no matter who they are - it is completely free to use, accessible, and assumes no previous knowledge."

http://www.opera.com/wsc/

With huge support from organisations and universities, it is currently a collection of articles and tutorials on how to build standard-based...

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Just a quick note to say that Opera 9.5 has been officially released (sporting a lovely new black theme too) .

www.opera.com

Also, Opera Mini 4.1 has been released: direct your mobiles to mini.opera.com for the download.

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Well, it's in the news again, we are getting a lot slower internet speeds than what we pay for.

With connection deals out there for 6mbps and 8mbps, it would seem that the average connection available is 3.2mbps (with London having the highest at 4.5mbps and Northern Ireland a low 2.3mbps)

You can check out the article here.

So what connection speed do you get? and are you paying for a lot more than you can receive.

You can check your connection speed here....

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Microsoft have given Yahoo until April the 26th to accept its bid offer or it will go ahead and buy them out on the open market, at a significantly lower price.

• Overview of the proxy fight:
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7254456.stm
• Yahoo's response:
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7334475.stm

Have MS gone mad? This is just pure bully boy tactics.



What are your thoughts?

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So it would appear that BT internet users have had there internet habits tracked and documented without consent:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04...rm_2006_trial/

At present such tracking systems, although available, are still highly controversial, and companies that are using them are under increasing attack within the media for using such systems. There is currently an open investigation by the Information Commissioner into the legality of these systems and,...

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