By JUSTIN WILLIAMS After several years of development, the Mozilla Corp. officially has released Firefox 3.0, a major update to its free Web browser. When Firefox 1.0 shipped in 2004, browsers were stale and suffering from a major lack of innovation.

Mozilla Corp.'s new Firefox 3 Web browser, the main rival to Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Internet Explorer, shattered the company's previous record by attracting more than 8.2 million downloads in its first 24 hours.

The World Economic Forum today announced 47 Technology Pioneers for 2007. Mozilla has been selected as one of these Technology Pioneers. The Technology Pioneers were nominated by the world's leading venture capital and technology companies.

SEATTLE and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RealNetworks(R), Inc. , Google Inc., , and Mozilla Corp.

Soccer fans all over the world can now have a Web browser that reflects their passion for the game. Mozilla today announced the release of the Joga.com Companion, a free browser add-on for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 developed by Mozilla and made available by Google.