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Google Mind Melds With Trekkies

Resistance is futile. You will be compiled.

As part of the 40th anniversary of the legendary science fiction series Star Trek, Google has set up shop in Las Vegas at the 5th Annual Official Star Trek Convention for Trekkies looking to sharpen their programming knowledge.

The Google booth, which has a starship bridge motif, features Google programmers, engineers and product managers who can discuss a variety of APIs, including Google Earth KML, the Google AJAX Search API, Google Calendar's data API and the Google Gadgets API.

Microsoft Extends a Hand To Mozilla

It may be August, but they're having a snowball fight in Hell right about now.

The head of Microsoft's open source lab extended a very public offer to the Mozilla community to work to insure Mozilla software will run properly on Windows Vista.

Firefox 2.0: Mozilla's Tabs Overfloweth

For many Windows users, tabbed browsing is a key attraction for the Mozilla family of browsers. The ability to add multiple 'tabbed' views within one browser window is a feature that some users like to push to extremes.

Microsoft's current stable production version of Internet Explorer does not include tabs, though its next generation version 7 (currently at Beta 3) does.
So how many tabs can you fit in one window? No matter how many you can fit into Firefox 1.5.x, the next release of Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 will give you more.
Using a default configuration in Firefox 1.5.x, at a screen resolution of 1024x768, in tests performed by internetnews.com 34 tabs can be squeezed in before they start to get lost.
A user can add more than 34 tabs but in a default Firefox 1.5.x installation, those tabs will fall off the end of the tab bar and will not be very usable. Even at 34 tabs, the default tab width makes it difficult to figure out which tab is which.

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Business

BT eyes ringing up China profits

British Telecom is hoping to see annual revenues of $250m from its operations in China over the next three years.

Singaporean fund builds cash pile

Temasek, the investment arm of the Singaporean government, looks abroad after making an $8.2bn profit.

Dairies face price-fixing charges

Six Scottish dairies are accused of price-fixing in sales to schools, and cafes over a period of four years.

Japan mulls passenger jet project

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is considering building Japan's first passenger jet, which could start flying in 2012.

PlayStation 3 Euro launch delayed

Sony's long-awaited PlayStation 3 console will not be available in Europe until March, the company admits.

Coal producer returns to profit

UK Coal, which has mines in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Coventry, announces profits for the first time since 2003.

Viacom hit by chief's departure

Shares in media group Viacom fall sharply following the sacking of its chief executive Tom Freston.

Valleys Burberry plant to close

The Burberry factory in the south Wales valleys is to shut with the loss of 300 jobs.

Directors 'have £1bn pension pot'

Directors at the UK's top 100 companies have built up a pension pot worth a total of £1m, the TUC claims.

China growth forecasts rise again

China's economy is set to grow at a faster-than-expected rate of 10.4% this year, the Asian Development Bank says.