Mozilla Working on Browser for Android
Mozilla, the company behind the very popular Firefox web browser, is setting its sights on the Android OS. Available today is Fennec 2.0, a web browser built on the Gecko engine, used by Firefox. This version of the browser seeks to increase performance by adding synchronization and separating user interface and rendering processes. The latter improvement is possible due to the inclusion of Electrolysis, allowing Fennec to handle user input better while CPU intensive tasks are running. In the future, Electrolysis will also be able to handle add-ons. The Firefox Sync feature allows users to share passwords and bookmarks across different computers and smartphones. A full list of compatible phones is available, and includes the recently released Droid X and Droid 2.
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Team Group Launches 32GB microSDHC Card
Well, it took longer than I thought but now there is some competition in the 32GB microSDHC card market. Team Group announced today that it is going to launch a 32GB microSDHC card of its own which is aimed squarely at smartphone users who need a ton of storage. The microSDHC card is a Class 2 device so you won't experience really fast transfer rates compared to Class 4 or 6 devices, but you will have a large amount of storage space to fit all your music, photos, files, and even apps.Team Group decided to equip this card with an ECC function to ensure your data remains safe and error-free. There is a full size adapter included as well so if your phone doesn't support microSDHC cards this size, you can always snap it into the adapter and use it with your digital camera. Team Group provides a lifetime warranty and replacement service on the memory card so if anything goes wrong, you are covered.
No word on pricing or availability was announced at this time though I expect it to be similar to the already released models.
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Viking Modular Places an SSD in a RAM Stick
Now, we've all seen solid state drives as a standalone drive, a PCI-e add-on card, and even integrated on to the motherboard. Next up on the list is apparently a stick of RAM that will house an SSD. Viking Modular announced today that it has outfitted a RAM stick, or at least the form factor, with an SSD. The SSD fits onto a 240-pin form factor so it will work just fine in a spare DDR3 memory slot on your motherboard and requires a SATA connector to transfer the data. Viking Modular promises a transfer rate of 260MB/second for both read and write which is pretty outstanding for an SSD. The SSD, dubbed a SATADIMM, will be available in 50, 100, and 200GB capacities and is powered directly from the voltage supplied to the DDR3 slots. I am sure there are plenty of people who have a spare memory slot or two who could benefit from more physical storage space and this could be the solution. However, Viking Modular is sticking just with enterprises and OEMs for now but hopefully if the product is successful we will see it readily available for the masses.
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