Archive for August, 2009
Firefox 4.0 goes Chrome, will arrive with new UI in Q4 2010
Monday, August 31, 2009 5:23 No CommentsTweet Firefox 4.0 goes Chrome, will arrive with new UI in Q4 2010 Mozilla recently updated its product roadmap through 2010. According to the first draft, the current browser will see a minor update in Q4 2009 as well as Q2 2010. Version 4.0 is headed for an October or November 2010 release and will [...]
Web browsers – what they are and how to choose one
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:35 No CommentsTweet Web browsers – what they are and how to choose one There is a good chance that everyone reading this column is familiar with web browsers and browsing, because you are using a web browser to display it. However, browsers are becoming both more varied, and more important as more people become connected to [...]
latform buys HP’s message passing interface
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:33 No CommentsTweet latform buys HP’s message passing interface Platform Computing, which has carved out a niche for itself managing supercomputer clusters and dispatching applications on HPC gear, has been expanding up the stack. It continued this process today when it acquired the HP-MPI stack created by HP for its own servers, as well as others used [...]
Get off Microsoft’s back, EVERY mobile OS has different co-existing versions
Friday, August 21, 2009 2:16 No CommentsTweet Get off Microsoft’s back, EVERY mobile OS has different co-existing versions There has been a lot of talk today on the Internet about the possibility that Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7 will co-exist in 2010. I have to say I really don’t understand why people seem to think this is a big [...]
First Google Chrome 4 reveals the beginnings of cloud synchronization
Friday, August 21, 2009 2:12 No CommentsTweet First Google Chrome 4 reveals the beginnings of cloud synchronization With Google, one tends to learn the meanings and intentions behind the many events in its development programs pretty much as they happen. For example, the distinctions between what goes on in the Chrome browser’s development channel (“Dev”) and what happens in the beta [...]
