Links of the week # 8

The main topics of last week at a glance

Release of version 3.5 of the Mozilla browser is imminent. According to Mozilla, it should still be so far in June.

Firefox 3.5 nearly fertigDas release of version 3.5 of the Mozilla browser is imminent. According to Mozilla, it should still be so far in June. Since the previous Friday is the second release candidate (RC) available for download. Available is the preview of the upcoming version in versions for Windows, MacOS X and Linux. In the announcement, the developers make it clear once again that this is indeed a "trial version is" the development is mostly completed. gulli

D: Jörg Tauss steps out of the SPD and will pirate

In the dispute over the introduction of an Internet blacklist of Karlsruhe in Germany Member Jörg Tauss has withdrawn from the SPD, "after nearly 40 years of membership," as he writes on his website. Tauss would continue to support the German Pirate Party. "I have always used eg for improving equal opportunities in education, developing a sustainable research policy and communication order, and for civil rights used on the Internet. This will unfortunately hurt more - the last of the German Parliament this week adopted Internet-locks, "writes Tauss, the change during a protest against Internet blocks in Berlin announced his. futurezone

Doctors: Jobs has "excellent prognosis"

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is after a liver transplant on the way to recovery. A hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, confirmed on Tuesday with the permission of jobs recent press reports about the operation. Medical Director James Eason stated on the website of the Methodist University Hospital, Jobs had an "excellent prognosis." future zone

PHP 5.3.0 is on 30 June

The PHP developers have to publish the final version of PHP 5.3 because of errors that PHP can crash postponed. As the new deadline is now the 30th June in the room. Originally, the release will appear on Thursday evening. However, the developers have decided on the basis of critical bugs in PHP extensions, make the correction date. Other recent days detected in Bugs that are not to be critical will be fixed with version 5.3.1. heise

T-Mobile iPhone monopoly could end in November

iPhone buyers who do not want to bind to T-Mobile, can look forward to in Germany may soon on alternatives. The Manager Magazine wants to see signs of an end to the provider binding. In November 2007 entered into between T-Mobile and Apple's exclusive contract has a term of two years, for the period after November, the Parties should therefore be renegotiated. The UK iPhone service provider O2 is confident the magazine for information to be able to penetrate from the end of the year on the German market. According ambiguous is also a statement of Telekom on the subject: The partnership with Apple is the long term, "because nothing will change until the end of 2009. macnews

Military secrets in the electrical

The students of the University of British Columbia had purchased in a market drives the price of 40 Canadian dollars. Coming home, they undergo a detailed analysis of the supposed electrical. This brought to light astonishing: the student journalists discovered secret information about a multimillion dollar contract between the Pentagon, U.S. Department of Interior and Northrop Grumman, one of the largest military supplier in the U.S.. gulli