microSD card slot (up to 32GB supported), micro USB 2.0, HDMI port, 3.5mm audio jack2MP front facing camera, 5MP rear facing camera with LED Flash and Auto FocusBluetooth 2.1, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-FiAccelerometer, Gyro Sensor and Light SensorWeight: 470 grams ; L x B x H: 195 x 117 x 13.1 mmLi-Po 1530mAh standard battery
Firefox could get even more Chrome style By: Seth Rosenblatt August 1, 2011 5:25 PM PDT Print E-mail Share 67 comments
Early design concepts for Mozilla Firefox indicate that the browser continues to bend toward the light emanating from Google Chrome.
Early design concepts for Mozilla Firefox indicate that the browser continues to bend toward the light emanating from Google Chrome
Designs released for the interface-focused branch of the nightly version of
Firefox reveal a look that brings the browser even closer to looking like its Google competitor, although it definitely has its own approach
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.
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.
ban the sale of three phones are "too similar" to the iPhone. The ban begins October 15.
Missing from the ban, however, are the Galaxy Tab tablets,
included in the original suit filed this month.
evidence that it may have doctored photos in that case, as well.
get the Tab banned in Germany,
A Dutch court found Samsung to be infringing on an Apple patent
technologies related to a “Portable Electronic Device for Photo Management.”
covers the various aspects of a photo gallery user interface
Samsung’s Galaxy S, SII, and Ace smartphones have thus been banned from sale.
use of touchscreen gestures
ban takes effect October 15
phones will be barred in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the Netherlands.
ruling will not be enforceable in other EU member-states because Apple failed to pay the administrative costs necessary in order to make the patent valid, tech patent blog FOSS Patents reports.
Apple’s failure to keep its paperwork in order
ban could have disruptive effects on Samsung sales across Europe.
fact that a good portion of Samsung’s distribution system for the region runs through the Netherlands:
sell these devices, the company will now need to ship them into various countries directly.
Samsung is obviously not pleased with the ruling, and has vowed to take “all possible measures including legal action” to ensure there will be no disruption in sales of its devices.
That said, Samsung still has options: the injunction found that Android 2.3 infringed on the patent but Android 3.0 and above did not.
Korean electronics maker needs to do is update the banned phones and the injunction will be un-enforceable, something Judge E.F. Brinkman
Matthew James, 14, who was born without his left hand, sent a cheeky letter to
Ross Brawn, boss of F1 team Mercedes GP Petronas, asking for £35,000 to pay
for a top-of-the range artificial limb.
But Mercedes where so touched by Matthew's ''intelligent and moving letter'' they
agreed to help him and teamed up with firm Touch Bionics, who create and fit
hi-tech artificial limbs.
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
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
Steve Jobs announced to the world last week that “unfortunately, that day has come” for him to step down as chief executive officer of Apple,
impeccable.
14 years since Jobs regained control of his company in the summer of 1997 after a long, bitter exile
Apple shares have increased a stunning 110-fold
surpassed rival Microsoft a year ago, Apple’s $350 billion in market capitalization places it behind only ExxonMobil
most valuable company in the world.
Apple has made money so quickly and so prodigiously that it holds an outrageous $76 billion in cash and investments
graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant
In his second time around at Apple, Jobs ultimately achieved what had eluded him in his early years there, from 1976 to 1985
visionary and a brilliant promoter but wasn’t respected as a businessman
Now Jobs, 56, retires,
awesome sum thought to be parked in an obscure subsidiary,
Jobs didn’t just create products that instilled lust in consumers and enriched his company.
Personal computing. The music business. Publishing. Hollywood. All have been radically transformed because of Steve Jobs.
It’s impossible to begin to understand the sources of Jobs’s success without looking to his unusual life story.
like the fictional Harry Potter, he was a misfit, raised by adoptive parents
Bill Gates as the most highly regarded business figure of our times
doctorate in political science
He was adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco.
his constant risk taking, his rare deal-making ability
icrosoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
“dropout”
drop-in”:
leftist artsy intellectualism, even though he knew his parents couldn’t—and wouldn’t—pick up the tab.
That’s how strongly he wanted to be at an elite school and obtain its validation that he was indeed a wizard rather than a muggle. And that’s how good he was at persuasion and dealmaking—and how open to real risk.
Steve Jobs changed the world, and his company is one of the best in the world. He retired at the age of 56, and now he is chairman of Apple, not the executive manager.