After some rather impressive RC builds, Firefox 3.5 is all packaged up and ready for public consumption. Mozilla is saying its new browser is more than two times faster than Firefox 3, but what has us more excited is the support for plugin-free “open codec” video and audio playback using Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora– [...]

As promised, Steve’s medical leave ended with the month of June. Last January, Apple announced that CEO Steve Jobs would take a leave of absense to deal with medical issues for approximately six months. Since then, we’ve learned that Steve had a liver transplant and today Apple confirmed his return. “Steve Jobs is back to [...]

While the free-market works pretty well when, uh, left alone to be free, sometimes it needs a push from a visible hand. Case in point, phone chargers; at the moment some 30 different types of chargers are used with handsets throughout Europe. Today, the European Commission received industry backing of its phone charger standard that [...]

Internet was geek-thingie, toys for the technolovers, playground of computer maniacs, and sweet honey for the hackers. But internet is different now. Internet is for everybody. Everybody may use the internet. From the executives, workers, academics, students, and even the housewives. Last decade, almost of the internet user was men. Only a little portions of [...]

Designer Rhea Jeong’s Void LP player seems devoid of reality, but it was inspired by the very real and very cute “Vinyl Killer,” a little VW Bus that can propel itself around a record and play the tunes with its tinny speaker, naturally wearing out the precious LP in the process. The Void LP takes [...]

Are you busy enough on your office? spending a lot – a very lot – of time just in your office? Let see, maybe you left your home with nobody right there. And you have to have zero fault tolerance when locking your home. You should not forget to lock your home’s doors and windows. [...]

Seagate is giving its FreeAgent Go drives a fresh new 640GB capacity ceiling, and while it’s not the first external to cross that 500GB threshold, it’s certainly on the thinner end of the totem pole, physically. Nothing revolutionary here otherwise, it’s still the standard USB-connected with up to 480Mbps transfer with multiple color options. Also [...]

What a difference six months makes. Back before Christmas, one of the VPs at Western Digital was saying that the company only “enters markets that exist,” meaning, of course, that we had to take all the tales of SSDs that we heard (in product spec sheets and reviews) on faith alone. Since then the company’s [...]