A Japanese software company is stepping up international promotion of its Web browser in the hope of carving out a 5% share over the next few years of a market dominated by Internet Explorer and Firefox.The Sleipnir browser is well-known among Japanese technophiles, many of whom value the high level of customization that the browser allows.
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More MobileMe problems were reported over the weekend, this time with e-mail.
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Why do we have three different, completely incompatible video game consoles on the market right now, instead of multiple companies making video game consoles that play a single format? We have unified formats for CDs, DVDs and bananas, so why not video games? As is generally the nature with rhetorical questions, I’ve got some answers
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The most interesting story the media is downplaying is the ASUS announcement that it will have a ROM boot chip on all its motherboards, which will booyt Linux instantly on start up…
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Firefox 3 users, who also have jacked up the security settings on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 to their most paranoid level, may find it trickier to download files with Firefox due to key changes recently made by Mozilla.
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TV shows are by far the most wanted files via BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s fast becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?
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Ah, I love those days. You know, the days where you hear that a big hardware parts manufacturer, such as Intel, AMD, ATI, Nvidia, etc, announces price cuts. That alone makes my day!
Yes, it’s official, Intel are cutting prices on some of their cpu this week and it’s already in effect, with stores such as NewEgg who already lowered their prices!
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You want to watch my new movie on that digital TV you bought a few years ago? No, sorry, I don’t like your TV (perhaps because I’m afraid of the analog component inputs it uses). You want to space-shift using your Slingbox (which lacks DRM-enabling controls on its outputs)? Oh, no, I don’t think that’s a good idea.
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Jeff Gerstmann has teamed with a handful of fellow GameSpot refugees to launch GiantBomb, a new videogame site that will feature both editorial content and a user-edited database of everything related to gaming.
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Thinking of buying a new macbook, you might want to hold off for a while, because apple may be releasing new macbooks in the future, and the macbooks may also be getting a lot cheaper.
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E3 was a disappointment. But you knew that already. Yet do you know why it was a disappointment? Sure, there are the easy answers. Few new game announcements. Anything Nintendo said or did. But they’re just that. Easy answers. There were a lot more things wrong with the show than just those limelight-grabbers. Things that we never want to see at E3
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