Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologized to the social networking site's user base in response to a rising crescendo of complaints that its advertising platform, Beacon, is too intrusive.

More importantly, Facebook is now letting users opt out of the service - a step that it has clearly been reluctant to take.

Industry experts and economists expect a reasonably good holiday retail
sales season this year despite an economy struggling with higher oil and
import prices, decreasing home values and the after-effects of mortgage
market problems.

Online holiday sales, in particular, should do pretty well, though the outlook is more clouded for sales of high-end consumer electronics products.

Internet users in France who download music and films without paying for them could find their web access shut down by a government body, under a ground-breaking industry agreement backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The plan, which Mr Sarkozy is to endorse in a speech on Friday, will put France at the forefront of the battle against internet piracy with a three-strikes-and-you-are-out policy against repeat offenders.

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The fourth edition of the Webdesign International Festival 2008 (WIF), being organised by the Government of France will for the very first time see participation from design agencies and designers from India.

The Mozilla Corporation today released Firefox 3 Beta 1, which is now available for download in a variety of languages.

The beta includes updates to the default theme, the new places site management features, improved security architecture, and Gecko 1,9 .

Release notes with a more complete list of features, are also available.