Stories about: Miro

They are four applications designed to serve different purposes: A web browser, a music player and organizer, another that does the same for video, and a word processor for screenwriters. Yet they share one thing in common: All were built with a Mozilla-based toolkit, either the Gecko Runtime Environment or its successor, XULRunner. Both toolkits use the same codebase which runs Firefox.

Researchers in the U.S. and the U.K. are developing computer systems that make deliberately ambiguous interpretations of human environments. What's more, the systems are often flat-out wrong. But the developers are delighted with their progress so far, saying that with computers, sometimes less is more.

The Mambo foundation has issued a statement in a bid to dispel what it claims to be "huge misconceptions" that have circulated in the media about the foundation and project.

Miro, the founder and creator of open source content management system Mambo has handed over complete control and copyright to a newly-formed foundation.