Mozilla's latest browser ushers in a bunch of new features and security enhancements, but not everyone is impressed with Firefox 3.6. [......]
Archive for March, 2010
It looks like Google isn't the only one wanting to ride the gravy social computing gravy train a la Twitter (though Twitter is still looking for ways to cash in on its microblogging service). Microsoft has big plans too, and it starts with OfficeTalk. According to what we can glean from Microsoft's Office Labs blog, OfficeTalk is basically a social networking tool somewhat similar to Twitter, but intended for the enterprise market. [......]
LucidLogix has managed to pull in an additional $8 million of venture capital to continue developing its multi-GPU Hydra products. A Lucid representative said the cash would be used to both accelerate adoption of Hydra, and do new R&D on multi-GPU products. Lucid also took the opportunity to remind us that a new version of the Hydra driver is on the way. [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews How long ago would you have thought it absolutely impossible for the slowest Windows Web browser currently under development to be coming...from Mozilla[......]
In recent years, both major chip makers have taken to locking down all but just a select few processors. [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share Amid reports that Internet Explorer's usage share in Europe is " falling faster than a team of skydiving elephants ," an examination of the source of the data being cited reveals the possibility of a separate universe with weightless elephants and an IP address. [......]
We suppose one way to protect users from a malware infestation is to prevent Windows from loading in the first place, and that's exactly what BitDefender did, though not on purpose. Borked WIndows installations were the inadvertent result of an overzealous definitions update that mistakenly detected several windows and BitDefender files as infected with Trojan.FakeAlert.5. "We apologize for the issues that you are experiencing because of an update released today for Windows 64-bit systems," BitDefender told its customers. [......]
Competition in the tablet market looks to be fierce, and that could be bad news for Apple. The latest vendor to go gunning for the iPad is Neofonie, a German company who has put together an Android-based tablet called the WePad . [......]
There's no crying in baseball, but there's plenty of boo-hooing in Silicon Valley. [......]
Battlefield Bad Company 2 may have suffered from one of the rockiest starts in recent memory, but that didn’t stop gamers from flocking to DICE’s latest frag-fest in droves. In fact, the overwhelming weight of millions of players is what crushed Bad Company 2’s servers to begin with[......]
If it’s not one thing, it’s another, they say. But in this case, it’s both one thing and another. [......]
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By Tim Conneally , Betanews This week, documents from Viacom's billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement were published, and the three-year-long-and-counting lawsuit has again been brought to the public's attention. [......]
Right now all the talk is on Intel's 6-core Gulftown chip, and rightfully so (see here for our in-depth evaluation). But in a little over a month, AMD will dish out its own 6-core desktop lineup dubbed Phenom II X6. AMD hasn't offered up a lot of details on its upcoming chips, but that's okay, because some key info may have been inadvertently leaked to the Web . [......]
Asus today added four new models to its Designo Series, including the MS248, MS238, MS228, and MS208. All four boast an eco-friendly, ultra-slim design with 16.5mm profiles and range in size from 20 inches to 20.3 inches. On the lower end, the MS208 sports a 1600 x 900 screen resolution with a 5ms response time[......]
