January 19, 2013

Tablet News Week of January 13th

Not as much Tablet news this week around now that CES has wrapped up. All external links go to Tom’s Hardware unless otherwise stated. Tablet Announcements: Gigabyte Announces Two Windows 8 Tablets – The 11.6-inch S1185 and the 10.1-inch S1082. Both seem to have decent specs and both will use Windows 8 Pro. Pricing not yet announced and likely won’t be until we get closer to the February 2013 and March 2013 releases for the S1082 and S1185 respectfully. Archos 80 Titanium tablet has same resolution as iPad Mini for $169 [C|Net] – Mentioned this new product line from the French…

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Firefox 18.0.1 Released

Mozilla has release an update for Firefox 18 for desktop users (no updates for Firefox for Android or Firefox ESR) only on January 18, 2013. Firefox 18.0.1 addressed these issues: Problems involving HTTP Proxy Transactions (Associated bugs) Unity player crashes on Mac OS X (bug 828954) Disabled HIDPI support on external monitors to avoid rendering glitches (bug 814434) User should be notified to update within the next 24-hours depending on their update settings or can update via Help > About Firefox and clicking the Check for Updates button. Users can also download and manually update via the getfirefox.com site. The…

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