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Posted by at 7:47 PM

Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox Development, gives an overview of what's new in Firefox 3.6. 




Download Firefox 3.6 from here.

Posted by at 7:57 PM


Apple Insider reports they have confirmation from inside sources that one rendered image in particular is “strikingly close” to the real thing.





Via Fotobear, Mashable

Posted by at 6:59 PM

Firefox 3.6 is scheduled to arrive tomorrow morning Pacific time.

Via Mozilla Blog 

Posted by at 6:29 PM

An ad for the Nexus One sponsored by Google using some ninjas to unbox it.

Posted by at 8:41 PM


 Apple announced an event on January 27th. Though they did not state what will take place during the event, it should be clear that they are going to unveil the long-rumoured Apple Tablet and the iPhone 4.

Posted by at 6:53 PM


Google has announced a rather bold move today: It will no longer censor search results on Google.cn, the Chinese version of the search engine. Apparently they will maintain this stance, even if it ends in shutting down Google.cn.

Posted by at 8:39 PM

Company Figures

1. More than 400 million active users
2. 50% active users log on to Facebook in any given day
3. More than 35 million users update their status each day
4. More than 55 million status updates posted each day
5. More than 2.5 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
6. More than 3.5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week
7. More than 3.5 million events created each month
8. More than 1.6 million active Pages on Facebook
9. More than 700,000 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
10. Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans

Posted by at 7:25 AM


This laptop has a super cool semi-transparent OLED screen! The screen's border is made of transparent plastic.

Manufactured by Samsung, they claimed it to be the world's first and largest transparent OLED prototype. Want to see it in action? View the video after the jump.

Posted by at 11:23 PM


After Google Unveiled the Nexus One, here are some pictures of it.

Posted by at 9:57 PM


After an  anticipated wait and much buzz in the blogosphere, here comes the very first Google Phone, the Nexus One!

Customers can buy the phone now at Google's site; Google.com/phone. It costs $530 unlocked, $179 with a T-Mobile contract. Vodafone and Verizon on the other hand are expected to make it available sometime in the first quarter.

Posted by at 7:14 PM


This is probably the first comparison chart for the most competitive phones in the smartphone market - The iPhone vs Nexus One vs Driod. View the comparison chart after the jump.

Posted by at 8:48 PM



Google Street View captured a guy picking up prostitutes. View the full image after the jump.

Posted by at 5:40 PM


Posted by at 9:13 PM

A (very) quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome.
 

Posted by at 8:21 PM

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