Author: Raja Rajan

Mozilla Firefox Crosses 100 Million Downloads; No Change In Browser Share

Mozilla Firefox Crosses 100 Million Downloads; No Change In Browser Share

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 has reached 100 million downloads, Mozillas community coordinator for Firefox marketing revealed it on his personal blog last weekend. While this is quite a achievement , a web analytics company showed that Firefox 4 has done nothing to boost Mozillas overall share of the browser market. Most of the 100 million downloads are done by existing users to upgrade their older Firefox versions. It is to be noted that Firefox 4 was well received by critics and users.

Nintendo Confirms Wii Successor Will Be Launched In 2012; Preview In E3

Nintendo Confirms Wii Successor Will Be Launched In 2012; Preview In E3

As we reported earlier the rumor about the successor to Nintendos Wii Gaming Console has become true. Nintendo has confirmed its plan to introduce the successor to its gaming console next year. Also Nintendo will reveal this model in the upcoming E3 gaming expo to be held in Los Angeles on June 7th. Still there is no official details about the console and the controllers. But we can hope for a solid improvement in terms of graphics department allowing us to play games at HD. Also we can imagine that Nintendo will come with a improved controller for the new games. Earlier this month Nintendo has lowered the price of Wii by $30 and and started selling them for around $170.

NVidia Optimus Graphics Technology Will Be Launched For Desktop

NVidia Optimus Graphics Technology Will Be Launched For Desktop

NVidia’s new Optimus Graphics Technology which is available only to notebooks till now, will be launched for desktops at the COMPUTEX 2011 convention in Taipei, Taiwan starting May 31. For those who are new to the term Optimus Graphics Technology of NVidia will allow automatic switching between integrated GPU and discrete GPU as required for optimal performance. This technology offers great graphics performance and better battery life for notebooks.

Attitudes

Attitudes

ABILITY is what you are capable of doing;MOTIVATION determines what you do;ATTITUDES determine how well you do it.- Lou Holtz

Microsoft Sold 350 Million Licenses In 18 Months For Windows 7

Microsoft Sold 350 Million Licenses In 18 Months For Windows 7

18 months after Windows 7 was released, Microsoft is boasting that it had sold 350 million licenses of its operating system. Windows 7, is flourishing both at home and at work. Microsoft cites and IDC estimate that 90 percent of corporations are currently in the process of migrating to Windows 7, and Redmond claims that deploying Windows 7 will allow businesses to save around $140 per PC per year. This take up got nice side effects notably, it will be another nail in the coffin of IE6.

PlayStation Network Outage: By External Intrusion

PlayStation Network Outage: By External Intrusion

It really started on Wednesday night, with PlayStation gamers finding their network unresponsive to their login attempts, and now it continues as well. Sony has now finally shed some light on the problems; the culprit for the trouble has been identified as an external intrusion. The current downtime for PSN is second one, with anonymous group of online crusaders climbing responsibility for the first. The PSN blog has added an update to their US website, which suggests the service disruption may not over soon according to Patrick Seybold, the company is rebuilding our system for further strengthen our network infrastructure, and working nonstop to do so.

SLC3000: Brings Grimy Gaming To Modern Displays

SLC3000: Brings Grimy Gaming To Modern Displays

Arcade Forges SLG3000 scanline generator gives your seemingly flawless HD displays a throwback makeover. It act as a middle one between your VGA compatible device and your TV, bring back the imperfections that marked early console gaming. It enlists a series of DIP switches and a potentiometer for setting scanlines and resolution to your specs. You can load one of your source links for 50. Dont forget to check the video.

3D Towers Double Disk Data Storage Capacity

3D Towers Double Disk Data Storage Capacity

Researchers in France have found a way to double the storage capacity of magnetic disk drives by constructing 3D Towers on information. The persons from SPINTEC created these pillars out of bit-patterned media separated magnetic nanodots, each of which carries one bit of data. By layering the dots in specific formations, the team created a multilevel magnetic recording device with an areal density of two bits per dot twice it started with.

Sony PSP Go to America

Sony PSP Go to America

What we got today is Sony PSP is not dead yet. While it seems to be disappear from the market, that Japan and Europe are giving up on the downloadable content only devices, Sony of America told to Joystiq that the UMD-less PSP is still go in North America. The Production and sales will continue, you will get the handheld by this year.