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Thursday, 29-September-2011 02:05:20 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Firefox 7 is an official release now. As noted on ArsTechnica: The update brings a much slimmer memory footprint courtesy of Mozilla's MemShrink project. The new release also includes some improvements to hardware-accelerated rendering on Windows, support for the W3C navigation timing specification, and an opt-in system for collecting performance data.
Amazon have unveiled their Kindle Fire tablet, much anticipated as a possible challenger to Apple's iPad. It seems closely integrated with their cloud computing products. More here and here. The $199 Kindle Fire is a full-color, TI OMAP 4 dual-core tablet running Android 3.1 Honeycomb that will have cloud access to movies, songs, and Android apps. The tablet has a 1024x600 resolution, is 11.4 millimeters thick, weighs 14.6 ounces, and uses Amazon's Whispersync service to access a "carousel" of media selections, and users can "pin" favorites from the cloud to their device. Discussion here.
Also making an appearance is the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner, delivered to All Nippon Airways. The long delay of the 787 program was alluded to by most of those who spoke at the event. All Nippon Airways’ Ito expressed his happiness at taking delivery of the company’s first 787, even if it is three years behind schedule.
Futurelooks have a SATA3 SSD roundup. The real questions are how will SATA3 SSDs benefit users, what price premium will drooling consumers have to pay and what’s going to happen to SATA 3Gb/s SSDs? And, given that a few of the Sandforce based SSDs have had very rocky starts, where are they in terms of quality control? We’re going to answer those questions as we take a closer look at the latest SATA 6Gb/s SSDs from Kingston, Corsair, Patriot Memory and OCZ.
Google is buying land to build three new datacentres in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. More people are coming online every day in Asia than in any other part of the world, so locating data centers there is an important next stage of Google's investment in the region, the company said Local data centers will help the company provide faster and more reliable access to Google's services, it added.
Daylight savings starts on the weekend, with 2am Sunday morning becoming 3am.
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