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Andy Chen

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Narrated Trailers - 0 views

  • Square Enix have recently released a new video for their forthcoming title, Final Fantasy XIII-2, the direct sequel to last year's Final Fantasy XIII. Many of you may notice this new video contains no new footage; that is because it is a compilation of the various trailers already released for Final Fantasy XIII-2, but now with added commentary from the game's creators
  • In previous announcements, we have brought you close-ups of main character Lightning. New character Noel features in battle, as well as further action shots, along with some great looking scenery.
Giang V

Leona Lewis legal battle finally over | The Sun |Showbiz|Music - 0 views

  • Leona Lewis legal battle finally over
  • THE legal battle over Leona Lewis's comeback single is finally over.
  • Collide will now be released as a collaboration between the singer and Swedish producer Avicii.
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  • The DJ, backed by label Ministry Of Sound, began legal action in July to block the track's release, claiming the song was similar to his own track Fade Into Darkness, also known as Penguin.
  • Syco responded, saying that Avicii was already credited as a songwriter on the Leona song.
  • Leona's reinvention - will now be released under the joint Leona Lewis/Avicii title.
  • Ibiza-style euphoric
  • rave reviews
Mojo joanne

Mozilla shrinks Firefox's memory appetite by 20%-30% - Computerworld - 0 views

  • Mozilla shrinks Firefox's memory appetite by 20%-30%
  • Mozilla's Firefox 7, slated to ship in late September, will be significantly faster because of work done plugging the browser's memory leaks, a company developer says
  • Mozilla developer Nicholas Nethercote credited the "MemShrink" project for closing memory bugs in the browser and producing a faster Firefox
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  • often 20% to 30% less, and sometimes as much as 50% less
  • "Firefox 7 uses less memory than Firefox 6 (and 5 and 4)
  • This means that Firefox 7 is faster (sometimes drastically so) and less likely to crash, particularly if you have many websites open at once and/or keep Firefox running for a long time between restarts
  • Firefox has long been criticized for using large amounts of RAM
  • for not releasing memory when tabs are closed
  • practices that can degrade the browser's performance
  • extreme cases
  • crash or lock up
  • Mozilla has tried to stop the leaks before
  • If Mozilla maintains its rapid-release schedule, which results in a new edition every six weeks, the final version of Firefox 7 will ship Sept. 27
Na Young Kim

Firefox 6 Jumps on Stage Ahead of Schedule | PCWorld Business Center - 0 views

  • Firefox 6 Jumps on Stage Ahead of Schedule
  • Firefox 6 isn't scheduled to debut officially until Tuesday
  • turns out this latest release of Mozilla's Web browser
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  • The software is “currently not final” and is “still going through QA testing," Mozilla reportedly told The H earlier today.
  • the early arrival has caused a flurry of excitement among Firefox fans who couldn't wait another day for the software's official release
  • There are a bunch of other intriguing new features in the software as well,
  • , Firefox 7 will move into the Beta channel at the same time,
  • h Firefox and Thunderbird in the enterprise. There's also a mailing list and monthly phone calls you can attend on the first Thursday of every month.
katrina Sukumaran

Samsung's IPhone Killer Is Coming: Galaxy S II Due This Month | FoxNews.com - 0 views

  • Samsung Galaxy S II
  • to be the only real competition to the Apple iPhone.
  • can't get it in the United States-- yet.
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  • Samsung's
  • a date for the U.S. release
  • its hotly anticipated phone,
  • sold lavishly in foreign markets
  • r 5 million people worldwide
  • bought the flagship Android phone
  • 85 days it has been on the market
  • one sold every 1.5 seconds,
  • Samsung
  • "a major product announcement"
  • an invitation to journalists early Friday
  • Galaxy S II
  • Aug. 29.
  • Galaxy S II by name,
  • The Galaxy is coming.
  • "It isn't rocket science to understand that it's the Galaxy S II announcement,"
  • It isn't an overstatement to say that the Samsung Galaxy S II is the strongest competition the iPhone faces.
  • sports a 4.3-inch, 800x480 screen, a 1.2-GHz processor, fast 4G network connectivity, and a sleek, simple design evocative of the iPhone. By contrast, the Apple iPhone 4  has a 3.5-inch, 960x640 screen, a 1-GHz processor, and a slower, 3G connection.
  • Bigger and faster?
  • Though it hasn’t gone on sale yet in the U.S.
  • Galaxy S II are copious
  • obscene.
  • 24 days, the company sold 1 million units
  • The 2 million units sold in 42 days would fill two and a half soccer fields.
  • That's a lot of smartphones. But it's more than that: It's a lot of good smartphones,
  • "If the U.S. versions are anything like the international versions, these are going to be spectacular smartphones," he told FoxNews.com. Segan gave an international version of the phone an Editors' Choice award, calling it the finest Android smartphone available today.
  • Apple iPhone 5
  • he elephant in the room
  • he 3 million Galaxy S II phones sold in just over 50 days are as heavy as 100 elephants)
  • iPhone 5 is widely expected to be coming out in September, Segan noted.
  • And getting the right price could make all the difference for Samsung. "They don't want to be more expensive than the iPhone," Segan said.
  • But that 4G network connection may prove a major difference between the two. 
  • Unless Apple has made some sort of secret breakthrough, [the faster LTE network] might make a Verizon iPhone too thick and power-hungry for Apple's demands this year. Apple may skip it for now and wait for smaller and cooler chipsets," Segan noted.
  • That faster connection really pays off for anyone surfing a lot of complicated websites or viewing movies over Netflix, he said. 
  • But in the end, pricing, a final feature set and the design is all up to the carriers. "The mainstream price for a smartphone is $199 with contract," Segan noted. "We're all hoping for $199."
unchan ki

Firefox 6 'Released' Two Days Early | News & Opinion | PCMag.com - 1 views

  • Firefox 6 'Released' Two Days Early
  • The official release for Firefox 6 is scheduled for this Tuesday, but Mozilla has already thrown up the installation files on its FTP for industrious and impatient users to download and install
  • A lot of the changes coming in Firefox 6 are under-the-hood fixes designed to increase the speed and compatibility of the browser. For example, Firefox 6 will now speed up its startup time for those with a ton of tabs and groups: Users will be able to decide whether they want to load up all of their tab groups at the browser's launch, or load these tabs up within the browser's Panorama grouping tool.
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  • The final "big change" that non-developer Firefox users will notice is Mozilla's new treatment of domain names within the browser's address bar. Domain names are now tinted with a small highlight, just to make it easier for users to tell what site they're on after a quick glance at the address bar
  • Other improvements to Firefox 6 include a performance boost for Linux users, as well as increased support for developers in the form of a Scratchpad tool for testing JavaScript within the browser and an improved version of the browser's Web Console
  • Firefox 6 'Released' Two Days Early
  • official release for Firefox 6 is scheduled for this Tuesday
  • A lot of the changes coming in Firefox 6
  • A new permissions tool (accessed by typing "about:permissions" in the browser's address bar) will give users a chance to set site-specific permission levels for saved passwords, cookies, location-sharing, pop-ups, and images, to name a few options.
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    not yet done, trying to fix sth
Mojo joanne

Mozilla Firefox 6, what people are saying - Tech Talk - CBS News - 0 views

  • It seems like just weeks ago we were updating to Firefox 5... Yup, that was just weeks ago
  • Now with Firefox 6, we're provided with a straightforward collection of security updates and tweaks.
  • "more substantial improvements" will come with Firefox 7, including a new JavaScript engine that "uses much less memory."
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  • Because Firefox 6 is not a major overhaul, the reviews are sparse, but people are still expressing their opinions.
  • Firefox 6 for desktops and laptops contains a number of important stability fixes, as well as some feature improvements, most of which are aimed at developers. There's a new Web Developer menu in Firefox 6, which collates tools for building and debugging Web sites into one location
  • Scratchpad tool, which browsers like Opera and Chrome have had for some time. It allows developers to test JavaScript before implementing it. The web console feature also has a new auto-complete option and can have its location customized
  • 10 major security fixes, including "a WebGL crash, a JavaScript crash, a crash in the Ogg reader, memory safety issues and unsigned scripts. These all affected Firefox 4 and 5.
  • Congrats to Mozilla on shipping Firefox 6
  • Firefox 6 highlights for me: server sent events, web sockets (albeit vendor prefixed) and dataList support."
  • yay, Firefox 6 supports the latest Websocket spec, and finally added eventsource support - long overdue! downloading.
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