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The latest version of the WordPress blogging platform was released late yesterday.

Reporters Without Borders said the release of cyber dissident Nguyen Vu Binh on June 9 under a presidential amnesty was a "great relief" but added it should not be forgotten that he was in prison for close to five years for what he wrote online. "Vietnamese Cyber-Dissident Released"

FeedDemon is the Windows desktop RSS application I’ve been using for the past few years. And for the past few months, I’ve been testing the various betas of the upcoming new version 2.5.

While Jimmy Wales has been busy of late creating a new search engine and dreaming of challenging Google for dominance within the field, another Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has been working on a new collaborative resource designed at offering more validity and expertise to its entries.

The site still says 1.3, but you can now download Spry 1.4.

The Zune came out today, as well as news that Microsoft is paying Universal Music $1 per Zune sold, in order to get Universal's music in its Zune music store. Looks like the music industry and the mafia aren't so different after all

ChaCha, which describes itself as "the world's largest live search engine," is now available in beta form. The interesting feature is the defining one - ChaCha can supply "a human guide who assists you in real-time via an instant-message chat."

Google has released a new helper application for Gmail, located at gmail.com/app on your phone.