iPhone 4 displays having discoloration issues, poor reception, and don’t drop them either
According to some users over at Mac Rumors, and still more at the Apple discussion forums, it looks like their new gadgets are showing some discoloration in the Retina Display. It’s not the most obvious thing in the world, but you don’t have to look all that hard to see the yellow pigmentation “burned” into the screen. Perhaps not while in use it wouldn’t even be noticeable, but we could see where this would be a troublesome situation while actually using the device.
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Internet Explorer 9: Uses your GPU for faster browsing
Internet Explorer 9 announced new features today, to “break the glass ceiling of browsing” in the words of Windows 7 head honcho Leila Martine, by using your computer’s GPU to improve IE9’s performance. The IE9 demo we saw today will support the HTML5 video tag and canvas drawing, and will use your hardware’s GPU for browsing, means snappier browsing, with pages will load quicker and be faster, with better performance, for example, the fps animations can be pushed to can be as much as double other browsers, as was demonstrated via the medium of an animated aquarium of fish.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook 'almost guaranteed' to reach 1 billion users
Facebook's global dominance is almost complete with just Russia, Japan, China and Japan yet to be converted and the social networking giant aiming to reach 1 billion users, founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed today. Zuckerberg, who said he had recently met Prime Minister David Cameron "for just a minute [when] he was busy rolling out the budget", also admitted that one day he could see Facebook floating on the stockmarket – just not anytime soon. He added that there was "no chance" Facebook, which has cracked the 500 million user mark, would hit 1 billion this year but argued that "it is almost a guarantee that it will happen".
The Guardian
Cisco to invest cash in Russia tech
Cisco Systems has said it will invest US $1billion to help foster hi-tech innovation in Russia. Cisco cheif executive John Chambers made the commitment at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The president was visiting the computer networking equipment manufacturer's San Jose headquarters as part of a tour of Silicon Valley.
MSN Tech
Motorola launches DROID X with 1GHz OMAP chip
US smartphone maker Motorola has followed in the footsteps of the HTC HD2 in testing the boundary of what can be considered a pocket-sized device, with the launch of the DROID X and its 4.3 inch screen. In order to power this large screen, Motorola has announced a 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP SoC. It hasn't specified the model number, but given that the OMAP 3430 found in the Milestone is only designed to clock to 600MHz, we must assume it's a 3640. This is still based on the ARM Cortex A8 CPU design and Imagination Technologies SGX530 graphics, but TI has tweaked it to higher frequencies.
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Mozilla: Our browser will not run native code
Mozilla vice president of products Jay Sullivan says that unlike Google, the open source outfit has no intention of bundling Firefox with Adobe Flash —– or with a plug-in that runs native code inside the browser. Mozilla, Sullivan says, believes that the future of online applications lies with web standards, including HTML5. Google likes to say the same thing. But then it rolls Flash into its Chrome browser and brews a Chrome-based "operating system" that embraces a native code plug-in. Asked if Mozilla intends to go native or bundle Flash, Sullivan is unequivocal.
The Register
Google defeats Viacom in $1billion copyright spat
Google has won its long-running court case against Viacom, in which the snooping giant’s YouTube was accused of massive copyright infringement. Viacom brought the case seeking $1 billion in damages. It said it will appeal the ruling. U.S. District Court Judge, Louis Stanton’s decided Google was protected by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects YouTube, which grants "safe harbour" to service providers who act to remove copyright violations when they are informed about them.
Thinq
Femto World Summit is all smiles (mostly)
The femtocell industry's third annual event in London is taking place, and the sector's rapid shift from interesting concept to real world commercial market is highlighted by the wide range of vendors and carriers pledging support. Global femtocell deployments have more than doubled in the past nine months, according to a report from Informa, which counts 16 operator commitments including 13 commercial launches - up from eight commitments last November. Informa expects the femtocell market to hit the 49m unit mark by 2014, supporting 114m mobile users. Femto unit sales would reach 25m in 2014 alone.
The Register
ATI.com isn't dead says AMD
Silicon underdog AMD has denied that it's killed off the ati.com domain as part of a scheme to dispose of the ATI brand. Web surfers using the old ATI URL have recently been greeted by an error message on AMD's website, saying that the page cannot be found. The error message (below), reads "Oops! We apologize. The page you are trying to reach cannot be found." It then suggests that the page may have been moved or deleted, or you may have typed in the URL incorrectly.
Thinq
Google 'activating 160,000 Android phones a day'
Google is now activating 160,000 mobile phones using its Android software a day, equivalent to 4.8m a month, according to the company's chief executive, Eric Schmidt. The number is also accelerating, having been put at 100,000 a day in the third week of May during Google's annual I/O conference, Schmidt said – indicating sales growth of 60% per month.
The Guardian
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