Apple’s market capitalization officially passed Microsoft’s Wednesday afternoon, making the Cupertino, California, company — for the first time — the largest technology company in the world.
Google Chrome 5.0.375.29 has been released to the Beta channel on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Some key features from this release include:
HTML5 Features: Geolocation, App Cache, web sockets, file drag-and-drop.
Integrated Flash Player Plugin
Some key features from this release include:
HTML5 Features: Geolocation, App Cache, web sockets, file drag-and-drop.
Integrated Flash Player Plugin
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Android sales have overtaken iPhone sales. NPD Group’s smartphone survey puts total iPhone’s sales for the first quarter at 21%. That’s third in the ranking. Second position goes, for the first time, to the Android platform, with 28%. El Número Uno belongs to BlackBerry, with 36%.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5535502/android-surpasses-iphones-sales-for-q12010
Android 2.2 (Froyo) certainly looks better than some sub-zero yoghurt
Android 2.2 is on track to be release at Google I/O next week and features inbuilt tethering. Currently this requires either hacking android or buying a $10 app. The 3G connection of the phone should be connectible by using the phone as a wifi transmitter. Currently not many UK tariffs support thethering so how useful this feature will be is unknown.
Others features in Froyo include full flash support with a brand new codec optimized for mobiles (although YouTube videos should still open in the YouTube app) , FM radio support, 4G support and installing applications onto an SD card.
Best of all though, tested using an app called LinPack, 2.2 boasts a massive 450% speed increase!
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You scared yet, internet?
The internet is still running out of IP addresses and many predictions are pointing to around 9th September 2011.
Currently IPv4 is used for addresses and provides 4 billion of them. Currently only 7% (300 million) remain. 17 million were recently removed from the global pool of adresses by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
Throughout the whole of 2009, IANA handed out eight of the big blocks of IPv4 addresses. In the first 100 days of 2010, it has handed out six.
Rationing of IPv4 adresses are already being rationed as IPv6, which provides trillions of addresses, is slowly being brought in. Both of these protocols can exists at the same time so that old devices will still be able to connect to the internet.
IPv6 is being taken up very slowly and currently only 6% of the internet uses it, despite this inevitable crisis.
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It’s like looking into the UK’s future
Since the ‘Hurt Locker’ was leaked onto the internet, months earlier than it’s release, in February 2009 it has had 10 million illegal downloads and the film makers plan to do something about it.
Similar to what the media industry can now do in the UK under the Digital Economy Act, the makers of ‘Hurt Locker’ have filed for the services of the US copyright group for a mass law suit against any ‘Hurt Locker’ downloaders and therefore, as it’s bittorrent, also uploaders.
The law suit should be filed this week and will ask ISPs for any IPs that were linked to the sharing. So far 75% of ISPs have co-operated plus any users that don’t pay up will be sued.
30% of money collected goes to the ‘Hurt Locker’ makers with the remaining 70% going to the US copyright group and other anti-piracy agencies.
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