Firefox 3.6 delayed until 2010
Mozilla announced this weekend that the final release of Firefox 3.6 had been delayed into early 2010, while at the same time releasing 3.5 beta 5 instead of a release candidate. Beta 5 has 130 new bug fixes, including a major TraceMonkey JavaScript rendering engine bug that was causing crashes.
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Warner will release all Blu-rays as BD/DVD combos
Warner Home Video has announced that beginning in the Q1 2010 all of their new Blu-ray releases will include a standard definition DVD copy as well, making all Warner releases the aptly dubbed "Combo Packs."
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Zune HD Twitter app update will remove word censorship
A feature of the recently-released Twitter app for Zune HD is that it censors explicit words even though they are not censored out on Twitter. Most people see this as a bug so Microsoft has quickly stepped up to say that it is looking into the matter and will release an update for the application so as to remove the 'bad word firewall'.
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AMD Danube mobile platform in details
For the first half of 2010 AMD is planning a significant offensive on the mobile front with the introduction of the Danube platform, including its first quad-core mobile processors. Danube will be made up of the Champlain dual- and quad-core CPUs and the RS880M chipset with DirectX 10.1 integrated graphics (already in use within the Tigris platform), and will be available with DirectX 11 discrete graphics based on the Broadway, Madison and Park 40nm GPUs.
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Sony Readers get exclusive Wall Street Journal content
Sony signed a deal with Dow Jones Company to have exclusive content from The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch available for the Reader Daily Edition. Moreover, Sony has signed a similar deal with the New York Post.
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Mozilla sees Firefox Mobile "killing" app stores
Mozilla mobile VP Jay Sullivan in an interview made the aggressive claim that Firefox Mobile will put an end to app stores like the iPhone's App Store or BlackBerry App World. As the smartphone web browser will share much of the desktop Firefox's engine and render both complex HTML and JavaScript, the senior employee anticipates many developers opting to write web apps instead of producing native code.
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uTorrent 2.1 adds support for video streaming
The latest beta build of the popular torrent client uTorrent has added video streaming support, giving users the chance to preview and play their video files while they are downloading. uTorrent is not the first client to add the feature, but is, by far, the most popular client in the US and Europe.
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Gaming console thefts grow exponentially
According to USA Today, citing data from the FBI, gaming console thefts have risen a giant 285 percent since 2007, mainly due to the jump in popularity of consoles in general, especially handhelds such as the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable.
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