Firefox Reaches 25% Market Share
According to these stats across over 4,000 websites, one in four web users browses with Firefox.
Archive for December 17, 2006
Mozilla Firefox Gaining Market Share
Mozilla
’s Firefox Web browser has reportedly gained some market share. This gain has come at the expense of Microsoft Internet Explorer which continues to lose market share. Firefox now accounts for 10.7 percent share on computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
Ultra-Realism in Gaming
During his GDC demonstration in 2005, Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios demoed his brainchild: The Room. An experiment dabbling in Hyper realistic surroundings, portals, and incredible definition. Where objects age and books have individual pages.
XFX Releases New XXX 8800s
XFX today announced its latest GeForce 8800-series based graphics cards. The new XFX XXX 8800-series graphics cards take the existing GeForce 8800-series GPUs and overclock them — the first for an add-in board manufacturer. XFX gives the XXX treatment to both the GeForce 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS which XFX dubs as fast or faster.
Sony Patents Motion Tracking Controller
Sony’s attempt to quietly patent new controller technologies did not go unnoticed by members of the online press. The Unwired View found that U.S. Patent application 20060282873 was published for Sony on December 14, 2006 for a “Hand-held Controller Having Detectable Elements for Tracking Purposes.”
Google Maps Now Allows Multiple Destinations
For those who have been waiting for this feature, the wait is now over. Now, driving directions using Google Maps allows multiple destinations. This will either allow you to plot a more complex trip, or allow you to force certain paths for longer trips for which you might have a better route in mind.
Intel Quietly Ships New Quad-Core Xeon
Intel has quietly begun shipping its latest Clovertown Xeon quad-core processor
—the Xeon E5335. The latest Xeon E5335 arrives at 2.0 GHz which slots it between the 2.33 GHz E5345 and the 1.86 GHz E5320. Can’t believe not many people have noticed this.
27 Year Microsoft Guy Spends 24 Hours with a Mac
I’m in the process of switching from Microsoft to Apple, but my corporate network is 100% Microsoft. Getting the Mac to play nice with the Active Directory & an Exchange Server environment, and getting usable access to my email is an ongoing challenge. This short blog is one in a series of my struggles, realizations, and reflections along the way
New build available of Opera released 14th Dec.
In the last build there snuck in a pretty bad regression, so we ended up having to revert one of the layout fixes from yesterday.
Our favorite customer Santa has a deadline coming up so we are approaching release of Opera 9.10.
DivX CEO prefers Wii, thinks BitTorrent sites are a mess
“Divx
’s CEO Jordan Greenhall reached out to me and granted an interview to someone outside of the traditional press where I could ask some of the questions that I felt the business analysts and mainstream media were missing. As a result, I an excellent conversation with Greenhal, where we discussed all kinds of things.”
