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The Nightly Build:
* Analysts group IDC claims that [laptops will overtake desktop PCs][1] as the main form of computer by 2011. The report says that will desktop machines will continue to grow the rate of growth in laptops will significantly outpace them.
[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6474581.stm "Laptops set to out sell desktops"
* Firefox 1.5 has [reached the end of the road][2]. A small note in [yesterday's update][6] reads: "Firefox 1.5.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until April 24, 2007." I like to think everyone that reads Monkey Bites has already upgraded to Firefox 2.0 but if you haven't now's the time.
[2]: http://www.mozilla.org/news.html#p427 "Firefox 1.5 to be discontinued"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/firefox_2003_re.html "Firefox 2.0.0.3 Released"
* Last week more rumors surfaced that Google is working a mobile phone of some kind, but now Google is [denying][3] that it's making any forays into the hardware ball game. Various Google execs have repeatedly said that, while company is working of mobile software, it is not building a phone.
[3]: http://www.smh.com.au/news/mobiles--handhelds/google-quashes-mobile-phone-talk/2007/03/21/1174153139660.html "Google quashes mobile phone talk"
* Walt Mossberg over at the Wall Street Journal has a [review of the new Apple TV][4]. Here's a nice synopsis from the article: "Apple TV isn't for that small slice of techies who buy a full-blown computer and plug it directly into a TV, or for gamers who prefer to do it all through a game console. And it's not for people who are content to watch downloaded TV shows and movies directly on a computer screen. Instead, it's for the much larger group of people who want to keep their home computers where they are and yet enjoy their downloaded media on their widescreen TVs."
[4]: http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20070321.html "WSJ: Apple TV review"
[photo credit][5]
[5]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandemico/231077513/ "Flickr: Untitled"
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