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Firefox 2 is generating plenty of coverage across the Net, including our own review and shoot-out versus IE 7. Now the new ZDNet's bloggers are getting in on the act: check out David's detailed post on the subject.

As the dust settles on the ZDNet editorial floor, and the takeaway wrappers, pizza boxes, Coke tins and other detritus are swept up following a weekend of controlled but frenzied pre-launch activity, thoughts return to the day job. In my case, that's feeding the Reviews channel with exciting content.

Alienware informs us that its shiny new Area-51 m5550 Core 2 Duo notebook is even now winging its way -- DHL permitting -- from Ireland to take its place on the reviews testbench. Not the most pin-striped of systems, admittedly, but we're keen to poke and prod the latest mobile technology. Alienware, for its part, is also at pains to assure us that its systems really are bought by business folks. Whatever: it's big, hopefully fast and brand-new.

If you prefer your mobile technology a bit more down to earth, we'll cover plenty of the more soberly attired Core 2 Duo portables too.

You are now looking at the all-new ZDNet UK, and although the paint may be a bit wet in places, we think it's a massive improvement on what went before. We'll touch up any bits we missed in the days and weeks to come.

In the reviews section we now have a great new design, much-improved interaction opportunities for members and a bunch of new ways of delivering product-related content. Look for eye-catching special reports, image galleries, videos and more, to complement the regular diet of reviews, previews, tech guides and buyer's guides.

So sign up and use the community section to track people, products and companies. Keep a blog of your technology-related experiences -- and if we like it a lot, we'll highlight your content elsewhere on the site.

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Trawling through the 100th handheld spec sheet while carrying out the teethgrindly-dull-but-necessary task called 'data cleansing' prior to our exciting new launch, I couldn't help noticing that SiRF seems to have the handheld-integrated GPS market well and truly sewn up. If a PDA has a GPS inside, it's almost certainly a SiRFstar III.

So we were puzzled when a press release from QualComm popped up, trumpeting that 'more than 200 million mobile handsets have been shipped worldwide featuring the company’s gpsOne Assisted-GPS technology'. Since neither I nor my considerably more radio-friendly colleague Rupert Goodwins are aware of a mobile phone with an integrated GPS, we shall have to investigate this hybrid-sounding technology some more.

A Korean scientist's commendable but misguided attempt to stem the tide of species extinction by cloning the distinctly deceased woolly mammoth has been frozen in its tracks, report our friends at The Reg.

Not only did Hwang Woo-Suk buy his frozen mammoth tissue from the Russian mafia, but -- the cad -- he falsified his expense claim, putting the Pleistocene pemmican down as 'money for cows for experiment'.