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Microsoft’s new $300 million advertising blitz has started. The media spots will feature Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld; the hope is to combat the Mac versus PC commercials that Apple has been so successful with.

I’m a PC user but I gotta hand it to Apple’s advertising department… those ads are hilarious. I actually stop fast forwarding my DVR when I see one.

So the first Gates/Seinfeld ad has come out and it’s… well… underwhelming?! See for yourself:

Wordpress is getting an iPhone-native WordPress client! It supports WordPress.com blogs as well as self-hosted WordPress.org blogs running version 2.5.1 or newer.

Timing wise, with the launch of Apple’s iTunes App store this morning, they expect to see this showing up very soon. You can check out their screencast here.

Alternatively, you can go for WPTouch. Simply put, it’s a complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch. The entire package for WPtouch is only 660kb. It was designed to be as lightweight and speedy as possible, while still serving your blog’s content in a richly presented way.

You can grab WPTouch here.

Mozilla VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer claims that Firefox 3 is 9.3x faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 2.7x faster than Firefox 2 in terms of JavaScript performance. In terms of Gmail message load time, he claims Firefox 3 is 6.8x faster than IE7 and 3.8x faster than Firefox 2. And he says Firefox 3 beats Apple’s Safari, which is also faster than Firefox 2.

Firefox 3 is slated for full release in June of this year. Unless there’s some major unforeseen bugs I cannot see them missing that time frame for release. If you’re already using Firefox 3, be sure to type about:robots into the address bar to discover a fun little Easter egg. For a detailed list of what Firefox 3 has to offer, check out its release notes.

Download RC1 now