Firefox 4.0 final to be released on March 22nd
After a long path with twelve betas and a Release Candidate version, Firefox 4.0 is ever so close to release but we'll have to wait until next week to get the final build. Judging by Mozilla's plans, Firefox 4.0 will launch on Tuesday, March 22nd, one week after Internet Explorer 9 came out.
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IE9 downloaded 2.35 million times first day
Microsoft touted a minor resurgence following the launch of Internet Explorer 9. Team member Ryan Gavin said the browser reached 2.35 million downloads in the first 24 hours of the completed version being online. The number was twice as quick as for the original beta and four times those of the release candidate.
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Google redesigns Chrome logo
Google has updated its logo for the Chrome web browser, removing the shine and going minimalist on the design. The remade logo follows Google's decision to remake the Chromium design last week (Chromium is the open-source foundation behind the browser).
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Android hacker rejects job offered by Sony
It appears that Sony is at least looking into acquiring talent from the hacking scene. Sony America recruiter Sarah McRae sent an email off to Android OS hacker Koushik Datta (aka Koush) offering an interview for a position on Sony's R D team. Koush was grateful but responded:
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The Ultimate Graphics Cards Round-up: Spring 2011
If you were attentive during the past few months, you’re bound to have noticed just how many new graphics card models have been presented in the past few months. To say that the market situation is confusing would be an understatement, since not only have there been plenty of new models making their appearance on the market, but an entire graphics card generation has shifted. Besides, NVIDIA seems to have made a full recovery and got back into the game as an entirely respectable competitor. All this has caused their competition to react more often, with both presenting improved models and decreasing prices of the existing ones. In situations such as these, even a well-versed buyer can feel as if in a washing machine, completely disoriented, and after you’ve tried to finally opt for one thing, you don’t even know how you got to that choice in the first place. The main problem is the amount of time that passes between two model launches. Simply, you have to keep an eye on the situation at all times in order to remain up-to-date on the latest info, and the situation is prone to changing even when no new models have appeared. Driver, price and configuration changes, factory-overclocked cards etc. are among many factors that can and should impact your final call. In order to eliminate all these, we thought a major roundup was in order. Therefore, consider this review the ultimate showdown in order to enable you to make a clear, streamlined choice and buy the best bargain out there. We took eleven graphics cards, and the idea was fairly simple - cover as much ground as possible as far as current models go.
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ASUS GTX 550 Ti Ultimate overclocked to 1015MHz
In addition to the GTX 550 Ti DirectCU and TOP Edition working at 975MHz, ASUS has also announced the GTX 550 Ti Ultimate Edition clocked at 1015MHz for the GPU. It looks like ASUS decided that GTX 550 Ti is quite stable over the 1GHz mark, and even memory got overclocked to 4200MHz. The TOP Edition works at 975MHz while the DirectCU one ended up overclocked to 910MHz. Both version swill have memory clocked at 4104MHz. It looks like GTX 550Ti is a great overclocker, and it will be interesting to see how far can it actually go.
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AMD to introduce 28nm Radeons for notebooks in 2012
AMD will create its upcoming Radeon HD 7000M graphics processors for notebooks on 28nm architecture, according to a leaked roadmap. Posted by Turkish site DonanimHaber, the roadmap also indicates the chip will be split into four families, codenamed Wimbledon, Heathrow, Chelsea and Thames. The first two will fall under the gamer/enthusiast category, using up more than 35W of energy and meant for big, desktop replacement notebooks. Wimbledon will be released in the spring of 2012, while Heathrow is coming late in 2011. The former will be the most powerful, with a 28nm, 256-bit design and available with either 2GB or 4GB of RAM, while the latter will be split into 128- and 192-bit products with 1.5GB or 3GB of GDDR5 RAM.
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Piracy should be fought with lower prices, says research group
A group of researchers has released a report, labeled the Media Piracy Project (http://piracy.ssrc.org/the-report/), that describes the prevalence of content piracy in emerging economies as a problem of inflexible pricing rather than enforcement. The researchers have focused on the cost of software, movies and albums relative to the average wages in various countries. As an example of the pricing disparity, the group points to legally distributed copies of the movie The Dark Knight. The film sells legally in the US and Russia for approximately $15; when the price is adjusted to reflect the average wages in Russia, however, it actually equates to the US equivalent of $75.
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Samsung teases Galaxy Tab 8.9 again
Samsung teased the Galaxy Tab 8.9 yet again with another video (which can be seen here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPmHomARu84)) that might have given clues as to the software side. After some pretext, the clip very briefly shows off the front of the tablet with a dim but visible screen. It shows what could be either a custom news and weather app or else home screen widgets; they superficially resemble some of the screen-filling widgets from the Galaxy S II.
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