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Google improves Google experience for iPhone Users

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:08:30 +0000

In the spirit of the first day of Macworld, Google has announced new improvements to the integrated Google experience on the iPhone. By navigating to www.google.com with their iPhone Safari browser, iPhone users will discover... Read more...

MS wins Patent Suit over tech that improves XP Boot Time

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:06:31 +0000

Acacia, a company that buys patents and sues other companies, bought U.S. patent 5933639, which was issued in 1999 to Acceleration Software International Corporation, and formed a company called Computer Acceleration Corporation, which then took... Read more...

Opera improves bookmark synching in new browser beta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:32:25 +0000

Opera Software has released a beta of its upcoming desktop browser, code-named Kestrel, which can synchronize bookmarks between a PC and a mobile device. The update to Opera 9.5, released Thursday, also fixes "hundreds of... Read more...

Microsoft Improves PHP performance in IIS

Steven Parker — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:22:55 +0000

Microsoft has been cooking this up for over a year and working with other folks in the PHP community. I haven't run any benchmarks against it, but it does respond faster in the limited testing... Read more...

Ionic Wind Dramatically Improves CPU Cooling

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:44:31 +0000

Researchers at Purdue University, in work funded by Intel, may have come upon a novel new way of dealing with heat buildup on the CPU. The scientists have developed a new technology based on "ionic... Read more...

Playing video games improves eyesight

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:07:49 +0000

New research claims that not all games, but action games, mainly shooters, can improve your eyesight. People who started out as non-gamers and then received 30 hours of training on first-person action video games showed... Read more...

Microsoft Hack Day Improves Windows Live Software

Simon Andrews — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:31:24 +0000

75 Microsoft employees joined a Microsoft "Hack Day" on Thursday, which was focused around Windows Live products and services. Hack Day is Microsoft's way of getting inspiration, creativity, and ideas out of its employees. "We... Read more...

Gigabyte improves Intel LGA 775 design

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 07:38:24 +0000

MOTHERBOARD FIRM Gigabyte said it has designed its own LGA 775 "retention mechanism" to support its family of 3D-Coolers. The firm said it has designed its LGA 775 RM because it won't only save money... Read more...

Pop-up technology improves

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 08:48:06 +0000

WRITERS OF pop-up ad code are getting more effective at stopping the blockers. According to news.com, Google's tool bar, which was confidently touted as a firewall against pop-ups has been tunnelled under by... Read more...

QuickTime 6.5.1 adds Lossless Encoder, improves AAC

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:13:13 +0000

In conjunction with Wednesday's release of iTunes 4.5, Apple has also posted an update to QuickTime, the company's core audio and video media handling technology for both Mac OS and Windows. The new release, QuickTime... Read more...

Russian firm improves game copy protection

Thu, 01 Aug 2002 16:07:15 +0000

Starforce Technologies will launch v3.0 of Starforce Professional, a CD authentication system, at the ECTS games show in London at the end of this month. The new system will introduce a whole range... Read more...

Quantum improves Snap storage servers

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:05:56 +0000

Storage hardware maker Quantum will announce a new file storage system Oct. 15 falling into the midrange of the company's Snap line, but much of the company's attention is focused on two other new product... Read more...