Are Firefox Add-on Collections dead?

Mozilla introduced Collections to its Firefox Add-ons website (AMO) back in 2009 to provide users of the web browser with options to keep track of add-ons, and to showcase add-ons, for instance by creating themed collections.

It allowed anyone with an account to create and maintain collections by adding add-ons (which included themes) to them.

Creators could add and remove add-ons from collections, and others could follow them to receive notifications about changes made to these collections.

Firefox users benefit from Collections in two ways: collections may help…

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Are Firefox Add-on Collections dead?

Intel Cancels Low-Power Chips Aimed at Mobile Devices

As part of a restructuring announced last week, Intel reportedly is ending its SoFIA and Broxton projects and shifting the money to its 5G efforts.

Intel reportedly is ending its efforts around some chips aimed at smartphones and tablets as part of larger strategy to shift to areas that promise more growth.

The chip maker, which last week announced it is cutting 12,0000 jobs and refocusing its efforts around such markets as the data center, Internet of things (IoT) and the cloud while reducing its reliance on PCs, is…

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Intel Cancels Low-Power Chips Aimed at Mobile Devices

Classic Car Travel – Drive a classic convertible in the South of France

Picture this! You are driving along a coastal road, with the Mediterranean Sea on your right and with the wind in your hair. What car is it that you’re driving? Would a 1970s Pagoda SL be all right? Good, now that we’ve got that settled, stop dreaming about it and make it real.

Mercedes-Benz and the Munich-based specialist tour operator Nostalgic are now offering self-drive tours in the classic Mercedes-Benz SL. The action is part of the Daimler Business Innovation program “Classic Car Travel”.  Ten SL models built between 1963 and 1989,…

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Classic Car Travel – Drive a classic convertible in the South of France

Microsoft develops IFTTT rival called Flow for connecting apps and services

Apps like IFTTT (If This Then That) connect services in logical ways: texting your spouse, for example, when you leave work. Microsoft has created a business-oriented preview service called Flow that acts in much the same way, but with its own software and partner apps.

Flow isn’t an app, but a way to connect apps and ask them to do specific tasks. To help users get started, Microsoft has created a series of “templates” of common use cases: for example, having Twitter tweets saved in a CSV file in OneDrive, or having a text sent to yourself when you receive an…

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Microsoft develops IFTTT rival called Flow for connecting apps and services