Windows XP is still the most popular o/s
According StatCounter Global Statistics, Windows XP is still the world’s most popular operating system. This is indeed remarkable for an o/s which is 8 years old! On the other hand this is not good news for Microsoft because despite all the hype surrouning Windows 7, their latest o/s still lags behind XP, Vista [...]
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DirectX 11
A lot of people still don’t know that Windows 7 ships with a new version of DirectX, which is now in its 11th incarnation. Most probably the reason behind this lack of awarness is the fact that until recently there were no graphic chipsets which took advantage of this latest technology. However, recently [...]
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Firefox Mobile coming soon
Mozilla will soon release a mobile version of the popular Firefox browser and this will initially be available for the Nokia N900. Later on it will be also released for the iPhone, Blackberry, Motorola and for Palm devices. A version is also being planned for Windows Mobile.
For more information on Firefox Mobile click here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile
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Domain names in non-Latin alphabets
On the 10th of December, EURid (registrar of the .eu domain) has officialy opened registration for domains in Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. Of course the former applies to Greek speaking users only but the latter applies to a number of related (but distinct) languages such as Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Ukranian and other Cyrillic based [...]
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Playstation is 15 years old
The 3rd of December marked the 15th birthday of the Playstation. In fact the original Playstation (PSX), was released in Japan on December the 3rd, 1994. In the rest of the world it was released one year later and it was a complete success wherever it was released. Although the specs of the [...]
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Nvidia ION hack for netbooks
Even though netbooks are certainly a great innovation, and many manufacturers (big and small) have released many different models in the past two years, all of them used to include graphics powered by Intel. Now, as you might all know very well, Intel are very good for CPUs but not so good as regards [...]
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Google working on an Operating System
Google are working on a new mainstream O/S, after having already delivered Android for the mobile phone market. The new O/S will be called ‘Chrome’ like Google’s web browser, and will be based on web technologies. However, the new O/S is not expected to be suitable for everyone because for instance photo, video [...]
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Early Windows 7 sales going strong
Between the 22nd and the 29th of October (the first week that Windows 7 was on sale), the percentage of Windows 7 sales were 234% when compared to the first week of Vista sales. This was indeed very good news for Microsoft and hence their latest operating systems looks to be on the way of [...]
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Baby Cry Translator
Pedro Barrera and Luis Meca have created an application for the iPhone which they claim can tell you why a baby is crying. Anyone who wants to test if this is really true and have an iPhone can download the application from here:
http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%3A%2F%2Fax.itunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewSoftware%3Fid%3D332636983%26mt%3D8
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Quake Classic on the iPhone
On the 22nd of June 1996 id Software released Quake, a first-person shooter video game which required a 66 Mhz and 8 MB of RAM to run. These specs will surely make a lot of people laugh nowadays, but at that time most PCs came equipped with a 33 Mhz cpu and 4 MB [...]
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