Monthly Archives: January 2009

Google Chrome and Firefox Speeds Blow Past IE and Opera!

This is not going to be a surprise to users of the browsers, but a recent ZDNet test has finally laid the debate to rest. When it comes to speed, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox blow the proprietary competition away. The ZDNet Test is based on industry standards for javascript. It was performed using Microsoft’s [...]

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Clickjacking Chrome and Firefox

If you are a user of either the Chrome or Firefox browsers, or even SeaMonkey, another Mozilla browser, you have probably experienced clickjacking, and didn’t know what had happened. We didn’t know what it was called either, until we stumbled across an article a couple of days ago, and things began to (literally) click into [...]

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Cool Japanese 1-Seater

Looking for something interesting? Check out the T10 minicar being exhibited at the 1st Int’l Automotive Electronics Technology Expo, at Tokyo Big Site. It’s made by Toyama, Japan based Takeoka Jidosha Kogei Ltd., and is based on a model already distributed by the company, the Mileu R. The T10 is a little wider and longer [...]

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Android: Dual SIM Card Capable Phone?

Google Android has already created a bundle firsts, coming onto the scene as a specially designed mobile operating system. And now it looks s though it may set another first, by being included on the General Mobile DSTL1. The new handset, which is still largely speculative to outsiders, will be unveiled in Barcelona next month [...]

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Futuristic Computing

Can you guess what the image above is? We can tell you to begin that these are not writing instruments. And they are not an array of laser pointers. But you can be sure of one thing, researchers in Japan are developing some of the coolest 21st century technology you can imagine. It’s not a [...]

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Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC

Microsoft has released the latest update for IE 8, the latest version of Microsoft’s well known web browser. This version is Internet Explorer 8 RC or Release Candidate 1, and is reputedly getting close to a final release for the new browser. Rumors have it that this version was delayed to provide more security, but [...]

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Nokia Reports 4th Quarter Losses

Nokia Corp. reported fourth-quarter sales were off by around 19% from last year. The company sold fewer phones, and further complications came fom a loss in overall marketshare, as the company reported on Thursday. Sales for the last three months of 2008 totaled $17.9 billion U.S. as of Dec. 31, the last day of the [...]

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Metallica Set List For Guitar Hero

It has been in progress for a while now, and many a would-be guitar hero has been eagerly looking forward to it. It is Guitar Hero: Metallica, and it should be released sometime in early 2009.  What we can do now is let you in on some news that is available at the official Metallica [...]

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Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings trailer unleashed

Fans of Indiana Jones will be happy to know that LucasArts has just released the first trailer for the soon-to-be released Indiana Jones game, The Staff of Kings. The trailer is a computer generated intro the premise of the game, but it doesn’t give any indication as to exactly what the gameplay will be like. [...]

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Samsung Plans New Products

Samsung Electronics Co. is going to follow its NC10 netbook soon with a new model and expand its range of smartphones with models based on a number of different operating systems, the company said today. “In the first half of this year, for touch-screen phones, we will expand our lineup and upgrade some of the [...]

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