Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.6.20 – August 16th Firefox 6 Final Release – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile Final Release – August 16th Firefox 7 Beta (7.0b1) – August 16th* Firefox 8 Aurora (8.0a2) – August 16th* Future Releases Firefox 7 Final Release – September 27th Firefox 7 for Mobile Final Release – September 27th Firefox 8 Beta (8.0b1) – September 27th* Firefox 9 Aurora (9.0a2) – September 27th* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The…
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At the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on August 12, 1981 IBM presented the 5150. At a price tag of $1,565 ($3,704.77 today with inflation) this system included: 5.25-inch floppy drives or a tape drive 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 Processor 16 KB of RAM (expandable to 256 KB) PC-DOS 1.0 More at the Seattle PI
In the phone market that is. Microsoft and Nokia have unveiled plans on how their partnership is going to keep both of them alive in the US mobile market. It will be interesting to watch, but I doubt Microsoft has a chance against Apple (which is now the most valuable company in the world) with their iPhone or the Android phones. The only “selling point” I have seen is towards the end of the article: As iPhones and Android devices pick up steam in the corporate world, BlackBerries are in less demand. Windows Phone 7, which comes with light Office…
Famous words of Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer in a 2007 Interview with CNBC in response to Steve Jobs unveiling of the iPhone at Mac World in January that year. By the end of 2007 with the iPhone only being on the market for six months apple sold nearly 1.4 million iPhones. That numbered jumped to 11.6 million, however 6.8 million of that was the newer iPhone 3G and also at that time Apple slashed the price to $399. [Full Sales History]
Mozilla/Mozilla Labs has released the 3rd Beta for the upcoming (August 16th) Thunderbird 6.0. Users already on the Beta Channel can go to Help > About Thunderbird to move up the Beta 3, otherwise can get Beta 3 here. New for Thunderbird 6 Beta include: Support for Windows 7 Jump lists Several fixes when importing email from Microsoft Outlook Default mail client check now works with newer Linux distributions Various other user interface fixes and improvements and numerous other bug fixes Thunderbird 6.0 Beta Release Notes
Just Released Firefox 6.0 Beta 4 – August 1, 2011 Firefox 6.0 Beta 5 – August 5, 2011 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 3.6.20 – August 16th Firefox 6 Final Release – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile Final Release – August 16th Firefox 7 Beta (7.0b1) – August 16th* Firefox 8 Aurora (8.0a2) – August 16th* Firefox 7 Final Release – September 27th Firefox 7 for Mobile Final Release – September 27th * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to…
Mozilla has released the fifth and final beta for Firefox 6.0 on August 5th. The final release of Firefox 6 will be on Tuesday, August 16th. You can updated to new the Beta via Firefox Button > Help > About Firefox or download Beta 5 here.
Okay, so it is not true that Dumb People Use IE.Seems this was all a hoax and The Guru fell for it, as did The Seattle PI, CNN, NPR and many more news outlets. Today, AptiQuant – the “company” behind a purported study that recorded which browsers people used to take an online IQ test – posted the following message to its bogus website: AptiQuant was set up in late July 2011 by comparison shopping website AtCheap.com, in order to launch a fake “study” called “Intelligent Quotient and Browser Usage.” The study claimed that people using Internet Explorer have a…
There will be a 4th and likely final Beta for Firefox 6.0, due out towards the middle/end of this week. Firefox 6.0 Beta 4 has been released. Beta 5 will be out sometime next week. No information at this time what bug fixes will be included in this release.
Just Released Thunderbird 6 Beta – July 20th Coming Soon Thunderbird 6 Beta 2 – August 2nd Thunderbird 3.1.12 – August 16th Thunderbird 6 Final Release – August 16th Thunderbird 7 Beta – August 16th Thunderbird 8 Early Bird – August 16th Future Releases Thunderbird 7 Final Release – September 27th Thunderbird 8 Beta – September 27th Thunderbird 9 Early Bird – September 27th * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days….