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Software Turns Mobiles Into Wi-Fi Hotspots

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Here's a cool use for a phone that has both cellular broadband and Wi-Fi: Turn it into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot so your friends can surf the Internet on their laptops. A couple startups have created and made available software like this in the last year. But a more established software ...

Firefox 500 Million Downloads Celebration

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

The Firefox browser has been downloaded more than 500 million times, according to SpreadFirefox website. Mozilla is celebrating this by raising 500 million grains of rice on FreeRice. Which is enough to feed 25,000 people for a day. In honor of the 500 million download mark we're celebrating by raising 500,000,000 ...

Another Feature From Google: Search Within Search

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The most popular search engine Google added one more feature to its search, where you can search within a search. If you type in popular company/website key words, like 'amazon', 'wikipedia', 'intel', 'microsoft' on Google, it brings up the relevant result at the top and immediately underneath is a second ...

AMD Unveils Energy-Efficient Processor

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

AMD - a leading purveyor of advance silicon modules - has introduced a new Energy Efficient AMD Athlon X2 4850e dual-core processor. At 45 watts, this latest central processing unit enables OEMs to offer differentiated solutions and facilitates higher conductivity for miniaturization and better usability of CPU form factors. 45-watt processor ...

ScanDisk To Release 32GB and 16GB Ultra II SDHC

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Giving photo enthusiasts the freedom to take more pictures and shoot more video, SanDisk Corporation today increased both capacities and speeds in its SanDisk Ultra II line with the introduction of 32- and 16-gigabyte (GB) SDHC cards and an 8GB SDHC Plus card. Ideal for today’s camcorders and point-and-shoot digital cameras ...

Internet Access Disrupted Due To Cable Cuts

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Internet services and voice traffic have been disrupted in large parts of the Middle East and India following damage to two undersea cables in the Mediterranean. One cable was damaged near Alexandria, Egypt, and the other in the waters off Marseille, France, telecommunications operators said. The two cables, which are separately ...

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