I-Bubbles - Software Development

Google to pay Mozilla $300M yearly in new search deal, says report :

Google promised to pay Mozilla almost $300 million annually to keep its search engine as the default in Firefox, according to a report Thursday on AllThingsD, a blog operated by the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

Google and Mozilla jointly announced Tuesday that they had struck a new deal to keep Google as Firefox's default search engine, and on the browser's home page.

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Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 Released
After nearly five years of collaboration within the worldwide Java community, Java SE 7 and ready for download! With Project Coin (many small language changes that add up to a big boost in productivity for Java developers), the new Fork/Framework (which facilitates parallelism for mulit-core processors), the New File System API (NIO.2) (which provides the ability to preform many basic file system operations natively) and more. Java SE 7 is an important step in Java's evolution.