Most of the sites across the globe are blacking out on January 18th.

Firefox 8 comes in only one and half months after Firefox 7 being inline with Mozilla’s new rapid release strategy, under which we can expect a new roll out of Firefox every 6 weeks.

Firefox 8 is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, November 8th. If you upgrading sooner via FTP server, please be sure to read updates on Firefox 8 compatibility here.

The biggest new feature is that Firefox itself now handles third party add-on installations to avoid security problems. Load tabs on demand at start up. Also included in the support to search Twitter messages in the browser’s address bar.

Windows, Mac and Linux flavors are available.

Download here
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/8.0/

Find the updates/changes in the firefox 8 here

Apple will be announcing the new generation iPhone5 on the October fourth consistent with the wave of rumors. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook  will hold a media event on Oct. 4 to announce the iPhone5.

If true, the next generation iPhone  will be released in early October which expects stronger demand then ever.

It is not known whether Steve Jobs  who resigned as Apple CEO in August, will be present at the event.

Google launched Google Wave at its Google IO conference at the end of May, but so far the Web giant has restricted the service to 6,000 or so developers.
Google Wave is a unique hybrid of email, chat, and a blog, and some expect it to eventually replace some of Google’s other applications.
Google is currently working on the “speed, stability, and usability of Google Wave” .

Here’s a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool.

It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client.

Google Wave has a lot of innovative features,  few are listed below:

• Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.
• Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.
• Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves.
• Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations within the platform are shared.
• Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.
• Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.
• Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.
• Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.