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 [...] Related posts:
  1. Firefox 3.5 is now the most popular browser
  2. Windows Vista to Windows 7 upgrades
  3. Tip for Windows Vista and Windows 7

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 [...] Related posts:
  1. Windows 7 Official Requirements
  2. Windows Phone 7 Series coming in Q4
  3. Microsoft already planning Windows 8

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 Related posts:
  1. Mozilla release critical Firefox update
  2. Firefox 3.5 is now the most popular browser
  3. Windows Mobile 7 coming in 2010

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 [...] Related posts:
  1. Avoiding Domain Renewal Problems
  2. New brand names for Intel CPUs

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 [...] Related posts:
  1. Sony PS3 Slim now with 250GB Drive
  2. PS 3 hacked?
  3. Remove Viruses from MSN Messenger
Tags: , Comments Off

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 [...] Related posts:
  1. DirectX 11
  2. Problems with latest NVIDIA Drivers
  3. New Atom to power future Netbooks

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 [...] Related posts:
  1. Google Chrome OS will come in different editions
  2. Google Chrome
  3. You Tube to stop working on IE 6

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 [...] Related posts:
  1. The Wait is over: Windows 7 released to manufacturing
  2. Windows 7 set for a 23rd October release
  3. Pirated versions of Windows 7 will get security updates

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 Related posts:
  1. iPods/iPhones overheating?
  2. Apple to offer free iPad O/S upgrades till version 4 only
  3. Apple releases iPad but rivals are coming soon

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 [...] Related posts:
  1. Firefox Mobile coming soon
  2. Windows Mobile 7 coming in 2010
  3. iPods/iPhones overheating?