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30
Sep

Amazon’s Kindle Fire is iPad Competitor

There’s an urge in me to buy this Kindle Fire. Can anyone in the US help me to buy one? I’d transfer the money through Paypal or credit card.

… the Kindle Fire, a polished and potent 7-inch device with a $199 price that will disrupt the surging market for Web tablets and erode the dominance of Apple’s iPad..

The Kindle Fire goes on sale Nov. 15, alongside a batch of redesigned black-and-white Kindles also debuting in time for the holidays. They include an entry-level model that starts at $79, a new Kindle Touch at $99 and a Kindle Touch with 3G wireless service at $149.

29
Jul

Google’s Android One Point Ahead of Apple’s iOS in Market Share

Just in case you’re wondering about the market share between the two giant two mobile operating system–Android and Apple’s iOS. Now, Google’s Android is one point ahead of the latter. It’s always a good news whenever a open source prevails.

Google Android is now well ahead of Apple’s iOS for iPhone in the race for market share in mobile operating systems, new data released Thursday showed.

Android’s total U.S. share for June came in at 39%, compared to 28% for Apple, according to data compiled by market watcher Nielsen. RIM’s BlackBerry OS was in third place with 20% of the market. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s fledgling Windows Phone 7 operating system, along with the remnants of the Windows Mobile OS, picked up 9% of the total market.

28
Jun

Firefox 5 Most Stable Yet

Have you upgraded your Firefox to FF 5? If not, do so. People says it’s more stable than the previous ones

Firefox 5 web browser arrived just three months after Firefox 4 was released. There were a few improvements but version 5 is more like the version 4.1. The new version solved the stability issues that had hounded the Firefox 4. firefox5

Firefox 4 brought a lot of new features, such as ability to sync bookmarks across different computers and improved tab navigation. It improved the speed of the browser. But it also brought random crashes. It is one of the major complaints with the Firefox 4.

Firefox 5 new features are not something to be excited about. Some of the new features in the latest version include improved the Do-Not-Track privacy feature, improved spell checking for some locales, as well as support for CSS animations.

27
Jun

Five Reasons the iPhone 5 Will Dominate

Five Reasons the iPhone 5 Will Dominate says Tony Bradley of PCWorld

Apple reinvented the mobile phone, and revolutionized the smartphone when it introduced the iPhone. It has been surpassed in overall market share by the me-too, copycat Android OS, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is a worthy challenger as well, but this fall Apple has an opportunity to set the bar for the industry once again, and leave the competition in the dust with the iPhone 5. Full story