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Firefox 3 RC1 Released 2008-05-17 02:37:13 Mozilla have released Release candidate 1 of the popular browser.
I’ve been running each beta of V3 as they’ve been released and I’ve been very impressed with the overall improvement over V2.
Mozilla are touting it to be more secure, easier to use and to have better performance.
More information can be found in the release notes HERE Read more:Firefox
Want 1TB of storage in your MacBook Pro 17″? 2008-05-17 01:58:57 MCE have released a new upgrade kit for 17″ Mabook Pro machines to give them a whopping 1 Terabyte of storage
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It works by replacing the optical drive with a 500GB SATA HD.
Priced at $799, it’s not a cheap upgrade, but 1TB is a whuge amount fo storage for any notebook.
To accomadate for the loss of [...] Read more:MacBook
New Fujistu U2010 UMPC unveiled 2008-05-17 01:30:01 Fujitsu has unveiled
it’s second generation UMPC, the U2010, scheduled for a July launch in Taiwan.
Weighing in at just 600 grams (1.34 pounds), this lightweight still manages to pack quite a punch!
Specs include a 5.6 inch touchscreen, Intel Atom processor, and biometric fingerprint scanner. Connectivity is improved over it’s predocessor the U810, with the addition [...]
New iPhone Rival from Philips 2008-05-16 23:27:20 It looks like Philips
are about to try and enter the high end PDA market, something they haven’t done for quite some time. They have released some information on the Philips Xenium X-Connect, a Windows Mobile 6 based device.
It features a buttonless front panel that gives it a sleek modern appearence that resembles an iPhone
[...] Read more:New iPhone
Google Blurring faces in Google Street View 2008-05-16 08:44:52 Google have started blurring the faces
of people in the street scenes of their popular free mapping service.
The Internet giant said it was trialing the technology on it’s Street
View pictures of Manhatten, and if successful, would continue rolling it out through the rest of the mapping service.
Surprisingly, a Google spokeswoman stated the blurring idea [...] Read more:Google
Google Insight Update 2008-05-16 03:57:11 Google initially began as a research project for two men back in 1996. Skip forward to today, and Google has almost 20,000 full time employees and is worth a cool $25 billion.
The thought behind Google was that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant web pages must be the most [...] Read more:Google
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Software Piracy On The Increase 2008-05-15 22:27:35 “By the end of 2007, there were more than 1 billion PCs installed around the world, and close to half had pirated, unlicensed software on them,”
A recent IDC study found software piracy is still on the rise and more prevelant than ever.
The study estimates that 38% of the worlds commercial software is pirated, which is [...] Read more:Software
Free Stuff On The Internet 2008-05-15 22:24:18 Not too many years ago, lots of companies were giving away free stuff to help promote their products.
As a kid, I always remember going to the big motor shows, and coming home with bags choc full of freebies handed out by the major car manufacturers…free pens, keyrings, hats, posters and booklets. Now you’re lucky to [...] Read more:Internet
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Control Your Home From Your Car - New Device Released Next Month 2008-05-18 22:26:45 You’ve left for work in a rush…you begin to wonder…did I turn off the lights? Did I lock the door behind me?
I’m sure we’ve all been there at one time or another. Well Panasonic are set to release the ultimate solution.
Meet the Strada F-Class! The “second livingroom”.
The new device creates a wireless connection between domestic [...] Read more:Control
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Mafia 2 Game Update 2008-05-18 19:54:02 In my opinion, Mafia
was (and still is) one of the best games ever released on the PC. The gameplay was just brilliant and the storyline was rich enough to keep you interested long enough to complete the game (and come back for more to finish it again and again!).
Originally announced on August 21, 2007, [...] Read more:Update
Top The Search Engines Within Days? This Guy Says He Can. 2008-05-21 21:02:19 While browsing YouTube today, I came across an interesting video.
Basically, this guy has created a website from scratch, and says he will get it having a high site rank, get a high amount of traffic and make it profitable in as little time as possible.
His methods will rely heavily on social networking, blogs and social [...] Read more:Search
Microsoft Luring Search Users With Cash 2008-05-21 16:37:51 Microsoft has played second fiddle to Google in the search engine stakes for a long time, but they are quite keen to switch that around, and are willing to take some interesting steps to get there.
The new idea they have come up with is a “cash” incentive. The idea is that they will return money [...] Read more:Search
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Napster Launches World’s Biggest MP3 Store 2008-05-21 03:11:08 NAPSTER has launched the world’s biggest MP3 download store with more than 6 million songs free of copy protection in a direct challenge to iTunes.
The songs, only available in the US at the moment, will cost about the same as songs from iTunes, but will be free from any DRM, allowing them to be played [...] Read more:Napster
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