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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Consumers Surprise: Black Friday Bargain Hunters Aim for Big Tix Electronics
Shoppers surprised retail experts and hunted for big ticket items this Black Friday.
Adblock Plus developer pokes holes in Mozilla's new add-on performance tests
Rather surprisingly, it turns out that Mozilla's numbers could be significantly wrong -- and if they're not wrong, the factors that Mozilla uses to tabulate an add-ons final score should definitely be made more transparent.
In the first set of tests, Palant shows that FlashGot's position in the top 10 is probably due to a fault in Mozilla's testing setup, and that add-ons can perform very differently depending on which operating system they're being tested on. In the second analysis, Palant uncovers an irregularity that doesn't seem to have an obvious cause -- but it could be due to an I/O bottleneck on Mozilla's test machines. Basically, even though performance testing of Read It Later is disabled because of a bug, it still (somehow!) manages to record a 14% slow-down on Windows 7.
Palant concludes both analyses by scolding Mozilla for going public with the performance data before its testing methods had been confirmed accurate. It definitely looks like Mozilla has been more than a little reckless, considering the importance of Firefox's add-on ecosystem.
Adblock Plus developer pokes holes in Mozilla's new add-on performance tests originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Two books on the radiation dangers of cellphones
Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn't Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution.
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Apple's iPad 2 augments but doesn't reinvent the tablet
People lined up for blocks to buy an incremental update to an established product. In the gadget market, that's not ordinarily rational behavior.But Apple's iPad and the iPad 2 that arrived in stores Friday are not ordinary gadgets.
Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=6b1cfb09d10bb144d1b364385fc54696
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Google Chrome now uses SPDY HTTP replacement, halves page load time
We're not entirely sure of the time line here, but it looks like Google has now rolled out the SPDY HTTP replacement to its full bevy of Web services, including Gmail, Docs, and YouTube. If you're currently using Google's Chrome browser you're probably already using SPDY.
We originally reported on SPDY way back in November 2009, when Google introduced it as yet another experiment in making the Web faster, like Go, Native Client and speculative pre-connections. Over the last 18 months, though, SPDY support has found its way into the stable build of Chrome.
SPDY is basically a streamlined and more efficient version of HTTP. At its most basic, SPDY introduces parallel, multiplexed streams over a single TCP connection -- but at the same time, SPDY allows for prioritization, so that vital content (HTML) can be sent before periphery content (JavaScript, video). All in all, the SPDY protocol can halve page load times, which is obviously rather significant.
The best bit, though, is that SPDY is an open-source project. HTTP 1.1 is a lumbering beast that needs to be replaced before low-latency real-time computing really becomes a reality, and SPDY is one of the best options currently on the table. To be honest, we're not sure why SPDY hasn't received more coverage -- it's awesome in every way. At the moment, though, the only way to help speed up SPDY's proliferation, is with an experimental Apache mod.
As far as actually 'trying it out,' your best bet is downloading Chrome, hitting up some Google sites, and then checking chrome://net-internals to see your active SPDY sessions. SPDY is a transparent replacement for HTTP, though, and as such it's rather hard to see its effects. Google's sites definitely feel fast in Chrome, but there are more technologies than just SPDY at work.
Google Chrome now uses SPDY HTTP replacement, halves page load time originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Faster Forward: Cablevision-Fox slapfest drags on
When I wrote last Sunday's column about the dispute between Fox and Cablevision over what the New York cable-TV service should pay the network to carry its channels, I worried that the piece would be overtaken by a Saturday-morning settlement.
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Coverity code analyzer to integrate with Wind River Linux embedded tools
Coverity is readying an evaluation edition of a security analysis package pre-configured for Wind River Workbench and Wind River Linux. Coverity Static Analysis for Wind River Workbench integrates security within the embedded development process, identifying vulnerabilities as code is written, according to Wind River....
Source: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Coverity-Static-Analysis-for-Wind-River-Workbench/?kc=rss
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Apple CEO Cook Hurt by Insinuation of Indifference, Doesn't Deny Problems
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly emailed employees about conditions at factories in China. Apple will dig and "undoubtedly find more issues," but it won't turn a blind eye. - Apple CEO Tim Cook is quot;deeply troubled quot; and quot;concerned quot; about issues within the
Apple supply chain and accidents that have harmed workers, according to an email he sent to employees that has been distributed on the Internet.
Cook reportedly wrote the Jan. 26 and published by...
Apple supply chain and accidents that have harmed workers, according to an email he sent to employees that has been distributed on the Internet.
Cook reportedly wrote the Jan. 26 and published by...
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Samsung to Bring Series 7 Gamer to the U.S., With Upgrades
Ultra-high-end specs and an aggressive price mark Samsung?s entry into the domestic gaming market against companies like Alienware and Asus.
Source: http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=f8d408561c06b427d5bb2824a552525e
Monday, January 30, 2012
Apple, Samsung Exit 2011 Strong, Ready for Vicious 2012 Battle
Apple and Samsung battled throughout 2011 for the No. 1 spot in global smartphone shipments. That battle will continue into 2012. - Apple retook the No. 1 spot in global
smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new report
from research firm IHS.
In doing so, Apple managed to knock
Samsung out of the top-ranked position it held in the third quarter. From store
shelves to courtrooms, the two compani...
smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new report
from research firm IHS.
In doing so, Apple managed to knock
Samsung out of the top-ranked position it held in the third quarter. From store
shelves to courtrooms, the two compani...
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