(Credit: What Japan Thinks)
Vista launched in Japan just over 19 months ago. Coincidentally, I was in Tokyo at the time and wrote about the launch on my old blog where I noted a serious advertising blitz (along with every electronic store breaking the release date by a full week.)
XP still dominates Japan

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Firefox, for all its great functionality and superior performance, has long been a laggard when it comes to managing PDF content on the Web.
In other words, no more searching for the Downloads window to check on the status of a file download, and no more scouring one’s hard drive [...]

A sampling of
green-tech news with quick commentary.
Iberdrola takes the plunge with wave power.

RWE NPower tests carbon capture in the U.K.–SmartPlanet.comCarbon storage next to coal plant plan moving ahead in the U.K. A report suggests this could be done at large scale by 2030.
Hydrogen as automotive fuel–NYTimes.comAnother reality check on hydrogen transportation. Worth noting that during [...]

The two campaigns, along with a handful of political journalists, have created lists on Google Reader of the sources they subscribe to. Users can subscribe to their lists, see what stories the politicos are sharing, and read their comments.

The variety of news and opinion available on the Web may be endless–but, as the candidates’ lists [...]

Actually, this sort of software will never appeal to people like my father, but he’s not the one who buys software for his clinic, anyway. It’s the system integrator specializing in the medical field who need this software, and who can make great margin gains by pushing open-source medical software like MedSphere to hospitals, clinics, [...]

Herberman, who expressed a similar sentiment in a controversial memo he wrote last July, appeared before the House Subcommittee on Domestic Policy. He and Dr. David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany, both cited a group of recent studies showing that long-term cell phone users are [...]

Apple may be launching its
iPhone App Store a day earlier than expected, because the sun never sets on the iPhone empire.

Forbes is reporting that Apple will launch the App Store–the delivery vehicle for third-party iPhone applications–at 9 a.m. PDT on Thursday, which happens to coincide with midnight New Zealand time Friday, where the iPhone 3G [...]

At the same time, they face durability challenges. The organic matter used to illuminate the image can by ruined by the elements, so special sealing technology is necessary. Also, a new study by DisplaySearch found that the brightness on Sony’s 11-inch XEL-1 TV began to degrade significantly after 1,000 hours.
That’s not all. OLEDs face [...]

Two weeks ago, iLike’s President Hadi Partovi, wrote an e-mail to third-party developers notifying them that the company was “gearing up to prepare for launch” of the platform. According to Partovi’s e-mail, the iLike Developer Platform is designed to add “interactive music features to Facebook apps and Web sites.”

An iLike spokeswoman declined to comment. [...]

Members who opt in to the “digital scrapbook” program will be able to store high-resolution photos, as well as videos up to 20 minutes long. They will also be able to surf the site without ads.
Multiply, a social network that has done a fine job of flying under the radar since its 2005 launch, [...]