Archive for July, 2009
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Last week, Mozilla had published some of the concepts of interface for Firefox 3.7. The publisher wants to renew deep enough the “look” of its browser, and it ressert cover with new concepts for this time in Firefox 4.0, in its Windows.
Compared to what was proposed for version 3.7, we can see just a change, this button “Bookmarks”, which was smaller and represented by a star above. Since the menu bar disappears in favor of a single button (and release a line crossing) was that access to bookmarks will not be too mired in a long series of clicks. (more…)
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Razer launches new mouse for frequent travelers, with a new mouse pad ultrafine bonus. The mouse is named Orochi, Kabuto carpet.
The Razer Orochi communicate with the computer on a wireless interface Bluetooth 2.0. It is equipped with a laser sensor Razer Precision 3G at 4000 dpi. The user will be entitled to 7 programmable buttons, and a Razer Synapse onboard memory. The mouse is ambidextrous, and it comes in a small bag, mobile forces. Its autonomy is announced between 1 and 3 months of use with two AA size batteries. (more…)
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Are DVD drives obsolete? That’s the case Dell seems to be authoritative with its Studio 14z, a 14-inch anthology that lacks an optical drive. Catering to acceptance and added consumers who are added acceptable to download software and ball than use a disc, this attenuate and ablaze arrangement ($749 at Best Buy, starting at $649 on Dell.com) is ideal for alive agreeable and arena agenda files. Add in aloft boilerplate cartoon performance, address of Nvidia, able speakers, and over bristles hours of array life, and you accept a acute value. Best Buy alike sweetens the accord by throwing in 15 months of chargeless antivirus aegis and a archetype of Office 2007 Home and Student Edition.
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Although you can acquirement the Studio 14z on Dell’s site, the 1440-022B agreement we advised is a Best Buy exclusive—one of four notebooks to accomplish the big box retailer’s Next Class line, all of which avowal continued array life, ablaze weight, and sub-$800 amount tags.
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Earlier this week, Intel announced its new generation of SSD based on MLC chips, known as the reference X25-M.
Although the performance of these seem to be an asset, the reduction of the fine engraving also allows the foundry to implement a pricing policy more aggressively than was currently the case.
Thus, the competition had to act, and is one of the most active builders in the industry, OCZ, who started the ball rolling by giving Anandtech. (more…)
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Microsoft has just released the financial results for its second quarter 2009. Like its first quarter results are not exceptional. The arrival of Windows 7, Office 2010 and other new Zune seem highly expected, as Microsoft has in recent times. Relativisons, suffer for the Redmond company is equivalent to a total delight for any other company … Here, it is only a comparison with previous quarters.
Thus, having unveiled three months ago a turnover down (a first in 23 years), Microsoft confirms this situation, if not the empire. Same on its profits (net and operating), reflecting a sharp decline compared to 2008 … But as stated in the first paragraph, benefits “bad” for Microsoft remain excellent. (more…)
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