Well done to Firefox on the successful launch of the third version of their browser, Firefox 3.
They’d been hoping to go for the world record of the most amount of downloads of a browser in a single 24 hour period, or a day as it’s commonly known.
Month: June 2008
YouTube Screening Room: ‘Serious’ Content For YouTube
YouTube Screening Room has officially been released following a couple of rumours knocking around about it.
YouTube’s stated intention is that they want to give the opportunity to the “tens of thousands of films” that are produced every year to be seen by a wider audience.
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Top Gear: The Mobile Game Coming
The BBC is to continue to open up paths to make money from it’s car TV programme, Top Gear, via its commercial wing, BBC Worldwide.
Asus VW223B: First DisplayLink certified USB monitor
Asus has today released the first-ever DisplayLink certified monitor.
The 22-inch monitor, VW223B, uses the DisplayLink DL-160 chipset to connect to computers using USB2.0 and has a native 1680×1050 wide-screen resolution and a 3000:1 contrast ratio.
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Optoma Pico Projector: Handheld Midget
Projections company Optomo has announced a pocket-sized video projector.
A long time back, Texas Instruments, or TI as it’s commonly referred to as, made the decision that they’d be a big player, if not the largest, in the world of video projectors.
Facebook Application For Palm Treo/Centro: Review (90%)
Released with Palm’s now typical – and utterly baffling – lack of PR fanfare is a native Facebook client for their Palm Centro, Treo 755p and Treo 680 smartphones.
Encouraged by very healthy sales of its cut-price Palm Centro handset (sales are expected to hit two million for 2008), the Facebook client should prove a very good fit for the Centro’s consumer-orientated market.
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Google Lords It Over The Mobile Search Sector
As unexpected as the sun rising in the morning, new research figures reveal that Google continues to be the boss, the head man, the top dog, the big cheese and the head honcho in the world of mobile search.
Leaving its competitors floundering about like a wet fish in a tub o’lard, the search engine kings surged miles ahead of its competitors in the first quarter of 2008, according to Nielsen Mobile.
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British Music Rights Survey On Teenage Kicks
It looks like someone in the music business has taken a hard swallow and commissioned some research giving the true view of UK 14-24 year olds. Potentially refreshing.
Not only that, but it appears that they’ve swallowed even harder and decided to actually listen to what those surveyed are actually saying – perhaps a first in the music industry.
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Sony Ericssons’s C905 Cyber-shot Phone Cam Packs 8.1MP
Box fresh and ready to spread the big megapixel love is Sony Ericsson’s new C905 Cyber-shot cameraphone stuffing in a whopping 8.1MP of picture power and a ton of photography- focussed gizmos.
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Nokia Slim E71 And E66 Smartphones Announced
Rumbling off Nokia’s great production mills are two additions to its E series range, the QWERTY E71 and E66 slider phones.
Both have emerged from lard free diets, sporting trim bodies just 10mm thick for the E71 (pictured above) and 13.6mm for the E66, with a novel ‘quick switch’ letting users change from business to personal use. This tie-loosening types switch home screens, email accounts and calendar to their personal choices as soon as they’ve got the hell out of the office.
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