The “bretteleben.de CSS Gallery” Plugin for Joomla 1.5 is an easy to configure plugin, that enables you to display a gallery with thumbnails in a content item. Unlike other gallery-plugins the CSS Gallery works with pure X-HTML and CSS without JavaScript, Flash or any other script/player. Source:bretteleben.de CSS Gallery

Way back when, eons ago we announced, that the family of Joomla Web sites were undergoing a major upgrade and facelift. Having just completed the Joomla Extensions Directory, here’s the current status:   Joomla main site at www.joomla.org – Complete. Phase 2 improvements in process. Joomla Shop at shop.joomla.org – Complete. Joomla Demo at demo.joomla.org – [...]

Reuters – Online retailer Amazon.com Inc on Friday reported its best holiday sales season yet, even as sales and traffic at U.S. store chains were the weakest in decades, sending its shares up nearly 4 percent. Source:Amazon claims record holiday orders in '08 season (Reuters)

Reuters – Despite the sluggish global economy, video game sales remained recession-proof in 2008 as game sequels were snapped up by fans and music games struck the right note. Source:Sequels keep video games buzzing in 2008 (Reuters)

PC World – Just weeks after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission shut down two companies accused of selling fake antivirus software, a new player has moved into the market, aided by glitches in the Microsoft and U.S. Internal Revenue Service Web sites. Source:Fake Antivirus Peddlers Helped by Microsoft, IRS (PC World)

The Waterloo, Ontario, Canada company said on Thursday that it had shipped about 6.7 million smartphones between September and November in what’s characterized as a ‘record’ quarter. Even as a ‘challenging’ world economy threatened to undo RIM’s success, Source:RIM nears iPhone's sales with 6.7 million BlackBerries

‘An application that allows iPhone users to wobble a pair of breasts has been rejected by Apple’s application store, denying iPhone geeks the nearest thing to sex they’ll get this holiday season,’ Bill Ray writes for The Register. MacDailyNews Take: It’s Source:Apple rejects 'iBoobs' from iTunes App Store (with video)

Remember Sony and Microsoft? No? Well, neither does the average Amazon customer. According to a release sent out by the online retail giant Friday, the Nintendo Wii and all its accessories dominated video game sales during the holiday shopping rush and Source:Yep, Microsoft and Sony sell game consoles too

hrs IST Poor response to 3G pre-bid conference by new firms, including foreign players, forces DoT to reschedule the auctions E-Mail Print After all the anticipation that began with the soft launch of MTNL s 3G services, it looks like that the Source:3G Auctions to be Further Delayed

PC World – Digital Rights Management: These three little words send chills down every music lover’s spine–because one of the biggest complaints about music purchased from online behemoths like iTunes and Rhapsody is that those stores (largely) encumber tracks with digital rights management (DRM) software that restricts how and where you play the music you [...]

PC World – Pictures of a Lenovo Mobile Communications handset bearing the logo of China’s largest mobile operator have spread online, rumored to be proof of an upcoming Android handset that’s based on China’s homegrown 3G (third-generation) mobile standard. Source:Lenovo Mobile's Expected Android Handset Appears Online (PC World)

Macworld.com – Audioengine has introduced its W2 Premium Wireless Adapter for the iPod. It costs $169 and is available now. Source:Audioengine W2 wireless adapter debuts for iPod (Macworld.com)

NewsFactor – New media reports suggest that Samsung handsets based on Google’s Android platform will reach the United States beginning in the second quarter of 2009, with Sprint being cited as the most likely wireless reseller. To accelerate the development process, Samsung recently added 30 experts in Linux and Java to increase its Android team [...]

a computer. The next frontier, however, is making that same music widely available on handheld devices like the iPhone and BlackBerry. ‘Most streaming media is consumed online in a browser, whereas we believe in just a few short years from now it will be Source:Free music-on-the-go coming to mobile devices, but licensing questions remain

The light-weight slide of VM product. Make it look cooler is simple . It has some basic parameters you can change: – transition – type of product – number of product – catagory id – container size – slide time: duration, interval Source:K Slider

Protecting the Joomla! Trademark in JED We love when people talk about Joomla, build business around Joomla, and produce products that make life better for Joomla users and developers. At the JED we especially love it when people build extensions for Joomla. As most of you probably already know, Joomla! and the Joomla! logo are [...]

CNET – It’s been about 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on the back of the Internet. For more than a billion people on the planet, the Web today is an alternate, digital universe that is gradually overtaking the analog, physical world as a source of information and connections. Source:Print news [...]

PC World – Video game maker Electronic Arts (EA) said Friday it plans to cut 1,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, after announcing in October it would cut just 6 percent. Source:EA to Increase Workforce Cuts to 10 Percent (PC World)