March 12th, 2010
Firefox 3.6 has recorded over 100 million downloads during the past 50 days, according to a new post by Melissa Shapiro on Mozilla’s official blog . Now, Mozilla wants Firefox loyalists still holding onto older versions of the browser to make the leap to the latest version. To this
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March 12th, 2010
Paris-based Darkworks is wandering the floor at GDC making some pretty big promises. They say their upcoming TriOvis for Games SDK will allow developers to build in 3D support to 2D games. The real benefit would be that it would not require the purchase of a 3D capable display.
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March 12th, 2010
Get ready to kiss your privacy goodbye. Those horrifying billboards from Minority Report that know everything about you are one step closer to reality . Japan’s NEC has created the Next Generation Digital Signage Solution, a system that tailors ads based on who is looking at it.
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March 12th, 2010
While cloud-enabled gaming has the potential to deliver games like Crysis to smartphone screens in all their glory , owners of Palm webOS phones can do with far less for the time being. Palm is tying up with Epic Games in a bid to bolster the entertainment value of
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March 12th, 2010
The JooJoo has gone through some changes since it ceased to be the CrunchPad when the partnership of Arrington and Fusion Garage broke down. Among those changes is a new home screen UI and improved virtual keyboard. There’s also expanded codec support for playing local media.
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March 12th, 2010
At the 2009 CES, Sony and Panasonic showed 3D HDTV as product concepts. Nvidia showed off its ability to display games in 3D and several other smaller companies demonstrated various 3D technologies, some with polarized glasses, some with shutter-glasses. I liked Sony’s demonstrations the best because they used lightweight
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March 11th, 2010
The filthy rich have a new poster boy. According to the latest Forbes World’s Billionaires list , Mexican telecom magnet Carlos Slim Helu is the richest man alive , with his $53.5 billion fortune proving just about enough to win him the top spot ahead of Bill Gates. Gates
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March 11th, 2010
Microsoft might well be right–the Internet does go “bing”! comScore’s reporting that Microsoft’s Bing search engine saw a jump in use in February . More a lower-case “b” jump than a capital “B” jump, but a jump nonetheless. comScore’s Core Search Report for February shows Goggle by far in
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March 11th, 2010
Connecting people to what they want (or alternately helping people more easily spend their money), just got a bit easier with Google’s new “in stock” notifications . The process is simple. If you do a search for a product that is sold by participating retailers, and one of those
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March 11th, 2010
The default balloon tooltip in Firefox does well at times but then there are instances when a person finds that more information would be much better. The Tooltip Plus extension for Firefox will give your browser that nice extra information boost. Before & After For our example we have
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