WebKit Beats Firefox 3 and Safari in JavaScript Benchmark

When Apple released Safari 3 last year it claimed that it was the fastest browser available. According to Apple Safari 3 was 4.5 times faster than Firefox 2 in JavaScript performance. That changed when Firefox 3 beta was announced as it almost eliminated the performance gap. According to the latest test done by Ars Technica using SunSpider, Safari 3 and Firefox 3 are very close in performance. But WebKit’s latest build that includes new SquirrelFish JavaScript engine was 1.5x faster than both Safari and Firefox. Read More

Logitech Unveils QuickCam Vision Pro webcam for Mac

Logitech today announced its first Mac only webcam with premium autofocus technology and Carl Zeiss optics. The new webcam is designed to deliver image-perfect detail and clarity, and exceptional video calling with iChat and Skype. The webcam uses a voice coil motor for its autofocus system, instead of a stepper motor. Focusing is fast and fluid – crisp even in extreme close-ups only 10 cm from the camera lens. Read More

Nokia to Acquire Symbian and Make Symbian OS Open Source

Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. Nokia has also established the Symbian Foundation that will unify the Symbian mobile platform and will provide open platform. So why suddenly Nokia decided to buy Symbian and make it open source. Read More

JVC ‘s 42-inch and 46-inch HDTV “World’s Thinnest” 1080p LCD TVs

JVC had showcased their world’s thinnest 1080p LCD TVs at CES this year and said that they will ship around summer of 2008. Today, JVC announced that the 42” LT-42SL89 and 46” LT-46SL89 would ship next month. The LCD TV at its thinnest is 1.5” thick and at its thickest near the centre point is 2.9” thick, making the TV one of the thinnest 42” and 46” HDTVs around. Read More

Sony Announces Three New AV Receivers

Sony today announced three new AV receivers with 1080p support for Europe. The top of the line SRT-DG820 comes with HD audio support. The receiver support Dolby True HD, DTS Master Audio and eight-channel Linear PCM. The STR-DG820 has four HDMI inputs, four digital audio inputs and A/V inputs for five more sources. The receiver can process full HD at 24fps with Deep Color and x.v.Color for complete Blu-ray support. The audio is sent out through seven channel of 100W each and a subwoofer connection. Read More

Intel will Ship Three Nehalem Architecture Based Processors in Q4 2008

Intel plans to ship three Nehalem architecture based Bloomfield processors and new matching mainboard chipset in fourth quarter. Intel has not announced the official names of the upcoming processors, but internally the processors are identified by their codenames XE for 3.2GHz processor, P1 for 2.93GHz processor and MS3 for 2.66GHz processor. All the processor will have 8MB L3 cache, Multi-threading and 130W TDP. The X58 and ICH10 chipset combination will also be launched with the new processors. Read More

Motorola ZN5: Company’s Last Shot for Survival

Motorola joined hands with Kodak to announce a new line of camera phones called Motorola Zine series. The first model, the ZN5, will have a 5-megapixel camera, Xenon flash, white balance setting, brightness settings, noise reduction, panorama mode, multi-shot mode, auto-focus and 4x digital zoom. Read More

New Mac OS X Trojan Horse in Wild

A Mac anti-spyware and anti-virus maker Secure Mac is reporting that a new Trojan Horse designed to allow a malicious user complete remote access to a Mac OS X system has been discovered in the wild. The Trojan Horse dubbed ‘Applescript.THT Trojan’ disguises as an application bundle called ‘ASth_v06’ of size 3.1MB. The malware originated via a hacker website and is disturbed through the website, Limewire and iChat. Read More

Dell Studio Hybrid Mini PC Revealed

Engadget posted photos of Dell new mini PC called Studio Hybrid today. The mini PC looks very similar to bamboo encased mini PC show by Dell in April. In place of bamboo, Dell uses an orange Plexiglas shell for casing. Read More

Intel to Integrate DRAM into The CPU for Terascale Computing

Till now Intel has increased performance of the computer by increasing number of cores, Cache size and clock speed. But now the company plans to integrate DRAM into the CPU, which could potentially increase performance by 10X. A small research team at Intel has succeeded in reducing the size of DRAM cells to just two transistors and completely removing the capacitors. Intel said that it was able to design DRAM with 2GHz speed that offered 128 GB/s bandwidth. Read More

Commercial Times: iPhone 3G Component Suppliers will see Substantial Increase in Revenue

According to a report by Commercial Times newspaper, Taiwanese component suppliers for the iPhone 3G will see their revenues strengthen substantially starting the third quarter of this year. The paper quoted sources at component suppliers saying that, as the new iPhone 3G will be available simultaneously in 22 countries on July 11, they expect shipment of iPhone 3G to top 10 million units for third quarter alone. Read More

Firefox 3 Download Crosses 8 Million Mark in First 24 Hours

Mozilla was trying to set a world record for maximum number of downloads in 24 hours for its new Firefox 3 browser. More than 8 million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in first 24 hours and Mozilla is waiting for the Guinness Book of World Records to review the result before announcing the world record. Read More

Survey: Only 9 Percent Japanese want iPhone 3G

According to a study done by iSHARE, 91 percent of Japanese adults say they have no plans to buy the iPhone 3G when it is launched on July 11th. Remaining 9 percent plan to buy the device as soon as it is available. Almost half of these are users already signed up for SoftBank the carrier picked for the initial Japanese iPhone launch. Read More

Verizon Upgrades its FIOS Network to 50 Mbps Speeds

Version today announced that it would upgrade its FIOS service nationwide. This update will give same speeds that were previously reserved only for the most competitive areas. The upgrade will bring 50Mbps download and 20Mbps upload speeds to its customers in 16 states where FIOS is available. Read More

Skype Plans to Release Skype 4.0 Beta with Redesigned Interface

Skype will release the first beta built of Skype 4.0, this Wednesday, for Windows. According to Skype, pervious versions of software were focused on voice chat and VoIP, the latest update will focus more on Video chats. The Skype 4.0 beta will have many visual and organizational changes; basically the company has redesigned the complete user interface. Read More

Asus Unveiled Thinnest 22-inch LCD Display

Asus Unveiled the worlds thinnest LCD Display LS221H that is just 24.8mm (0.98-inch) at its thinnest point. The display uses material like leather at the bottom half of the frame to give it rich looks and an extra-hardened glass that prevents scratches and improves visual quality. Read More

Dell Upcoming Mini-notebooks E and E Slim Revealed

Engadget has posted slides of upcoming Dell Mini-notebooks. Dell is working on two models, Dell E - an 8.9” model aimed at Eee PC and Dell E Slim - a 12.1” model meant to compete with MacBook Air and Lenovo X300. The Dell E will have three notebooks, the E classic, E Video and E Video+. As the name suggests the E Slim notebooks will be just 0.8” thick and will come in two models E Slim and E Slim+. Read More

Harrah’s will Add Microsoft Surface at its iBar Ultra Lounge in Vegas

Last year, when Microsoft announced Surface table many companies had announced that they will deploy Microsoft’s Surface in their store but till now only one company AT&T has added Surface to its selected few stores. Now you can add a second company to the list Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., as they will deploy the Surface Table at iBar ultra-lounge at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Read More

G and Verizon Announces Three New Handsets in Response to iPhone 3G

Verizon and LG announced three new handsets. Isn’t it irony that the touchscreen handset is called “Dare”. The other two handsets are Chocolate 3 a clamshell phone and Decoy a slider device. The Dare is a touchscreen phone that doesn’t have hardware keyboard and uses stylus and fingers for input and control. Even though the phone has touch inputs only, it doesn’t support multitouch input. Read More

Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905 Aka Shiho Revealed

The Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog has posted information about the latest Cyber-shot flagship phone C905 codenamed Shiho. Like all Cyber-shot phones it will also come loaded with various camera features. The C905 will have 8.1-megapixel camera, auto focus, face recognition, image stabilization, red-eye reduction, Xenon flash, LED flash and video stabilization. Read More

Apple Seeds iPhone Software 2.0 Beta (5A331) and Mac OS X 10.6 (10A96)

Apple has posted updated iPhone Software 2.0 beta for developers, which includes the minor changes that were announced yesterday. Apple has now changed the .Mac setup references to MobileMe service that was rollout on Monday. Read More

Voodoo Introduces the Impressive 0.7-inch Thick Envy 133 Notebook

Voodoo today introduces the 13.3-inch Envy 133 notebook that will directly compete with Macbook Air and Lenovo X300. The carbon fiber notebook comes with LED backlit screen with 1280 x 800 resolution, Intel GMA X3100 graphics, 1.6GHz or 1.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 1.8” hard drive or SSD option. Click to Read More & Watch Video

Canon’s New Rebel XS Replaces the Old Rebel XT

Canon today announced a new entry-level DSLR EOS Rebel XS, which in combination with EOS Rebel XSi will replace Rebel XT and XTi. The Rebel XS comes with 2.5” LCD, 10-megapixel sensor, and 7-point auto focus. Read More

Apple Seeds Safari 4 Beta to Developers

Apple announced yesterday that they would improve Safari’s performance in Mac OS X 10.6. Today Apple started seeding developers with a very early beta version of Safari 4 (5526.11.2). According to Apple the biggest improvement in Safari will be faster implementation of JavaScript, increasing the performance by 53 percent. Read More

Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard at WWDC

Rumors that Apple will focus on performance and not features for its next OS X 10.6 update were proved true today. Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering said, “We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more. In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.” Read More

Apple Introduces the New MobileMe Web service

Apple today introduced MobileMe, a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the "cloud" to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. MobileMe also provides a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. Read More

Apple Announces iPhone 3G for Just $199

The biggest announcement at WWDC 2008 Keynote was the new iPhone 3G. The phone will have fast 3G, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange and new App Store. Read More

Apple WWDC 2008 Steve Jobs Keynote Live Coverage

• That's it from WWDC Keynote. No "One more thing" this time from Steve.


• Now he is overviewing sessions at WWDC and he thanks the crowd and leaves the stage.


• Steve and crowd is thanking the iPhone team.


• Steve is now showing ads.


• The phone will be launched on July 11th in 22 countries. The maximum price around the world is $199


• The 16GB available in two colors black and white will be priced $299........ that is awesome


• Now the final challenge Price, the iPhone started at $599 and now the 8GB goes for $399. The 8GB iPhone will be Priced $199.... what the.........


• The iPhone will be available in 70 countries, the rollout will occur over the coming few months.


• With GPS the iPhone can do tracking. A pulsating dot is moving across the Google Map as a car drives down Lombard street.


• GPS is now supported on iPhone.


• 3G has great battery life on iPhone 300 hours stand by and 5 hours talk time, 2G will give 10 hours talk time. 5 to 6 hours of browsing on 3G, 7 hours of video playback and 24 hours audio.


• He says when comparing to other 3G phones from Nokia (N95) and Palm (750), iPhone is 36% faster.


• He compares the speed of 3G and 2G, 3G finishes in 21 seconds and 2G takes 59 seconds.


• He says Apple has learned so much and has added more to create the 3G iPHone, Even thinner, black plastic back, solid metal buttons, same gorgeous display, camera, flush headphone jack and dramatically improved audio.


• Introducing the new 3G iPhone............


• He says that 56% people who wanted a iPhone didnt get it because of price.


• Apple figured out what the next challenges are, 3G network, Enterprise support, third party apps, more countries and more affordable.


• Now he is talking about the iPhone at last, says Apple sold 6 million iPhones until Apple ran out several weeks ago.


• A 60 day free trial will be available with iPhone 2.0 software and then you have to pay, no price announced yet.


• He concludes by saying that MobileMe an incredible new experience for all your information. It's exchange for rest of us.


• He is adding photos over the air to the MobileMe gallery.


• He is now using web interface of calendar to add meetings, with in seconds of making adjustment the changes appear on iPhone.


• iDisk allows files to be send via the application. now Phil is showing push email and its interface on phone.


• The calendar has color coding and drag and drop feature, gallery also has drag and drop feature and live thumbnail scaling.


• The Mail app allows panes to be resized, multiple message selection like desktop Mail application. The contacts have live search and Google Map integration.


• Me.com will have mail, contacts, calendar, gallery application and iDisk.


• Will have a desktop like experience on the web to work all of the data. the website is me.com


• MobileMe works over the air, with Mail, iCal and address book on Mac and with outlook on Windows.


• He says it works like ActiveSync, data gets synced automatically both ways. will include Push mail, contacts and calendars.


• Now Apple is introducing MobileMe, Exchange for rest of us. Phil is on stage.


• Now he is talking about Apps Store, it will be available in 62 countries and you will be able to download apps less than 10MB on mobile network otherwise it will require WiFi or iTunes.


• iPhone 2.0 will be available in early July for free for iPhone owner and $9.99 for iPod touch.


• Fourth is bulk delete for messages, fifth is save image ability, Sixth is a new calculator with Scientific mode, seventh is parental control and eight is language support.


• Now he is discussing new features in the iPhone 2.0 software, First is contact search, second is full iWork document support, third complete Office support.


• Steve is back on stage at last.


• This functionality won't be available until September.


• A push notification service will be available to all developers. when a user quits the application Apple will push updates from their server and the developers server pushes update to Apple. These update can include badges, sounds and custom messages.


• He says that Apple has come up with a far better solution compared to mobile task manager used in windows mobile OS.


• Now thanking the developers for their hard work. He says the number one request has been for background support for applications.


• The company has developed a 3D fantasy adventure game using openGL. The game will be available in September.


• Now the last app is from Digital Legends Entertainment, they only started two weeks ago.


• Modality is showing two medical apps. the first is learning app that helps remembering names of body parts, second is MIMvista medical app for viewing medical imagery. the company will release dozens of apps within weeks of Apps store release.


• Now its Modality, that's it Apple just give us the list of all the apps, we want to see the new iPhone.


• MLB.com is now on stage they are showing a app that shows live scores, current highlights. it will be available when the apps store is launched


• Mark Terry from Moo Cow Music shows Band -- a collection of virtual instruments for creating music from scratch. they are showing a piano for demo, Steve might be laughing at Microsoft's touch piano that they showed at D conference.


• It is Pangea Software's turn, they have ported tow games to the iPhone, first game is Enigmo, which is a physics based game that uses touch controls. The second game is Cro-Mag - a 3D racing game. Both the games will be available for $9.99.


• AP is calling it Mobile news network, the application will make use of location API automatically showing near by sources.


• Shows photos and videos from their news network, you can also send news to AP immediately from your iPhone.


• Now its Associated Press on stage, I hope this is the last application demo.


• Next in line is Typepad, the app makes it simple to blog from your iPhone, you can take pics on the iPhone and post it on your blog directly, this app will also be free.


• The application will be available for free when the Apps store is launched.


• Next it is Loopt -- a application that is a social network that displays a map showing current where about's of your friends.


• The application has all typical eBay functionality and also includes a custom photo viewer for iPhone.


• Now its eBay's turn they are showing an application they developed for auctions, eBay says it took them five weeks to develop the complete application.


• The game looks real fun to play, well be available on Apps Store for $9.99


• Sega's Ethan Einhorn takes the stage, shows the Monkey Ball again, the game has now more than 100 levels.


• Scott is inviting developers to demo their applications.


• Scott is now reading quotes about how easy it is to develop for iPhone from various developers.


• Now he is showing fully functional app in simulator. within 10 mins he created a complete application.


• Scott is showing how easy it is to build an application by just dragging and dropping interface elements and combining them. All the required API's are automatically added.


• Shows a demo for building a interface of a basic Cocoa touch application called Nearby Friends.


• Talks about the development tools X code, Interface builder, iPhone simulator and Instruments.


• All the core services included, complete database layer, location based functionality and Open GL.


• Steve is back on stage after the video and starts talking about iPhone SDK, Core OS makes use of the same Mac OS X kernel


• Even high-education market has participated, shows video of iPhone use in Education and enterprise.


• First the iPhone Software 2.0, 4,000 people have joined beta developer program, 35% of fortune 500 companies have participated.


• Says we have three parts to Apple now Mac, Music, iPhone, we will talk about iPhone, Bertrand will give a peak of the new OS X "Snow Leopard"


• He thanks everyone for joining and says that we've been working hard on some great stuff, we have a record 5200 attendees.


• Steve has taken the stage and people are cheering loudly.


• At last the lights are dimmed


• Announcement: Turn off cellphones, iPhones..... Our program will start in few minutes.


• Everyone is standing up suddenly and cheering


• Everybody is settled and the keynote should start any minute


• Most of the crowd is in the hall now and people are settling down.


• We have started moving towards the hall
  It is really crowded and we have never seen these many people at WWDC before.


• Apple online stores are down for Asia, Europe, US and Canada with the usual message "We'll be back soon"


• Macbook Airs are all around


• One more hour to go there is a long line here
  


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Steve Jobs keynote at Worldwide Developers Conference tomorrow is one of the biggest events in tech world for this summer. Announcement at WWDC will definitely affect the whole mobile phone and computer industry. As a result there are so many rumors floating around in the blogosphere about what Apple will announce at the conference. Here is the list of major rumors circulating and their likelihood of coming true. Read More

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GameStop Takes Microsoft Zune Off the Shelves

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Third Party Case Render Reveals 3G iPhone Designs

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Canadian iPhone will have the Cheapest Data Plan

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Apple Files Patent for Personal Media Devices with Wireless Communication

Apple has filed a patent for “personal media devices with wireless communication” with the US patent office. The abstract of the patent application says, “Systems and methods are provided for personal media devices having the ability to communicate wirelessly, and in particular, communicate wirelessly using a short-range communications protocol (e.g., WiFi and Bluetooth). Such communication provides users of personal media devices with access to several WiFi oriented applications. Read More

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