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Firefox 4 beta 2 adds app tabs, Mac tabs on top

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:56:11 +0000

Firefox 4 beta 2 adds app tabs, Mac tabs on top
Mozilla on Tuesday posted its second beta of Firefox 4. The update brings in a new App Tabs feature that turns tabs into permanent features. Much like Chrome, it collapses the tab to an icon but makes it always available on the left to jump to a favorite page, such as a blogging tool or Internet radio. Mac users now see tabs on top by default where they were strictly optional in the first beta …

Acer launches a high end Android smartphone

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:55:42 +0000

Acer launches a high end Android smartphone
THE INQUIRER But no sign of Froyo yet

Novell Scores Cloud Coup in China

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:57:40 +0000

Novell Scores Cloud Coup in China
Novell and Tencent, reportedly China’s biggest Internet service portal, have set up a research lab in Shenzhen, China, to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform. Tencent, which is supposed to have 480 million active users and 568.6 million IM accounts, is going to use SUSE Linux and PlateSpin Orchestrate as its auto-deployment system. It’s also suppose to use …

Tablet Computer for $35 or Less Developed in India

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:54:06 +0000

Tablet Computer for $35 or Less Developed in India
A tablet computer for $35. That’s the estimated retail price of a prototype basic touchscreen tablet developed by the government of India.

William & Mary Chooses Gigamon for Network Monitoring Upgrade

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:54:43 +0000

William & Mary Chooses Gigamon for Network Monitoring Upgrade
The College of William & Mary needed to refresh their network architecture, which consisted of multiple 1Gbps core distribution links and 100 Mbps network connections to edge desktop computers.

India develops world’s cheapest ‘laptop’ at $35

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:53:35 +0000

India develops world’s cheapest ‘laptop’ at $35
India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled the low-cost computing device that is designed for students, saying his department had started talks with global manufacturers to start mass production

Web Hosting Talk and The Planet Benchmark Cloud Provider Performance

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:55:50 +0000

Web Hosting Talk and The Planet Benchmark Cloud Provider Performance
Hosting vendors The Planet and Web Hosting Talk have teamed up to develop a free, online tool that provides benchmarking data for cloud service providers. Bench the Cloud provides standardized performance metrics and direct comparisons of cloud or virtualized server platforms.

Android Army to Conquer Mobile Market by 2015

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:00:32 +0000

Android Army to Conquer Mobile Market by 2015
Linux will dominate the non-smartphone mobile device market by 2015, a study by ABI Research indicates, and Google will likely play a prominent role in this. “Linux-enabled mobile devices, led by the success of Google’s Android and upcoming Chrome OSes, will comprise 62 percent of the operating systems shipping in all non-smartphone mobile devices by 2015,” ABI Research said.

OSCON returns to Portland and Puppet Labs lands $5m in VC

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:52:58 +0000

OSCON returns to Portland and Puppet Labs lands $5m in VC
One of the nation’s largest gatherings of open source technologists returns to Oregon this week, just as a Portland open source startup announces major new backing.

w3schools June 2010 Browser and OS Statistics

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:58:37 +0000

w3schools June 2010 Browser and OS Statistics
w3schools: Firefox dominates, Linux’ growth creeps slowly upward.