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Archive for March 19, 2008
Firefox 3 rated BEST of ALL brand new browsers by CNet
Cnet has rated Firefox 3 as the best browser out of IE 8, Safari 3 and Opera 9.5, and gives special mention to Flock!!
Vista SP1 officially released
Looks like all those rumors yesterday were true — Microsoft has just posted up the official standalone version of Vista SP1
IBM builds optical switch for multicore chips
IBM today announced that its scientists have built a switch that can control the flow of information on a chip using pulses of light instead of electrons.
Firefox 3 beta’s new features [Slideshow]
Review gives screenshots that demonstrate some of the cool new features of Firefox 3, and also highlights some areas that still need work.
Apple unleashes version 3.1 of Safari web browser
Safari 3.1 is the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations, according to Apple. It also supports CSS Web Fonts, giving designers limitless choices of fonts to create stunning new web sites.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue: one million preorders in Europe
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is looking to take Europe by storm as the Blu-ray version of the game has already toppled the million mark in the territory.
Apple snags 14 percent of US PC retail sales in February!!!
Growth in Apple’s personal computer business continued to outpace the industry average last month, with Macs accounting for a 14 percent unit share and 25 percent dollar share of all US-based PC retail sales, according to market research firm NPD.
iPhone firmware 2.0 hands-on
We know there have been a couple of crappy videos here and there on the web, but we finally got our own grubby paws on the yet-to-be released iPhone 2.0 beta, which isn’t officially due until this June. It isn’t exactly awash with changes, but here’s what you need to know.
Awesome New Red Alert 3 Screens Revealed
We’re still months away from the release of Command And Conquer: Red Alert 3, but that’s not stopping EA from trying to work fans into a lather with these new, gorgeous screenshots of the series’ trademark Soviet war machine in action.
Six-core Intel processors coming this year
Intel will move to a processor design that utilizes scalable cores, from two all the way to eight using another new microarchitecture, and it will phase out the front-side bus as a component of its architecture. The six-core Dunnington server CPU platform using Penryn architecture, with 16 Mb of L3 cache, goes into production as soon as this summer
