You know what, we won’t even go through the drill of expressing surprise that a new major version of Firefox is released on a nearly-monthly basis. Mozilla released Firefox 8.0, about 7 months after it released Firefox 4.0. And they look similar, except that the new one looks more polished. Granted, drastic UI changes can hit users’ learning curve and preferences. The new UI sports essentially the same layout as its predecessors since version 4.0, but the elements look designed better, fused into the theme. It’s the under-the-hood changes that are counting. Mozilla would never pack so many background changes  [ Read More ]

In India now you can get an Android tablet for just 35$. Yes you read it right. It’s just 35$!! After almost 2 years “Aakash” is on its way. This cheapest tablet was launched today in the country’s capital New Delhi by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal. He also handed 500 Aakash tablets to students who will trial them. Government is planning to buy 100,000 of the tablets which will be given to 10 million students across the country in few years.   “The rich have access to the digital world, the poor and ordinary have beenexcluded. Aakash will end  [ Read More ]

Google has boosted its Gmail voice calling service, opening up support for making calls to 38 new countries. Launched in the US and Canada last year – and updated last month with support for multiple simultaneous calls – the freshly extended service will allow users to call landlines and cellphones at reduced rates. However, whereas in the US and Canada, calls within the country are currently free of charge – and, Google says, will stay that way “at least for the rest of 2011″ – it seems the new countries getting the service won’t be so lucky. While Google has  [ Read More ]

The latest Firefox Aurora release is now available for users to experience the future of Firefox. This release is focused on delivering performance enhancements and optimizing memory utilization. It also includes new Web and server technology and tools that will allow developers to build performance tests directly into the browser to help Firefox become even faster! New in Firefox Aurora: Performance Enhancements: Faster startup time on Mac, Windows, and Linux Optimized Memory Use: Improved memory management: For many users, memory use is reduced by 30 percent or more, responsiveness is enhanced The JavaScript garbage collector runs frequently to free up  [ Read More ]