Private browsing is a fairly important feature in modern-day web browsers. Whereas the likes of Google Chrome allow regular browsing and private browsing side by side, you can’t avail a similar setting in Mozilla Firefox apparently due to a bug. Now, the Mozilla team intends to fix this bug with the upcoming release of Firefox 20 in 2013.
After years of study, Chris Eliasmith, a neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo, along with others researchers has created “the world’s largest simulation of a functioning brain” called Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network, in short SPAUN.
In March this year, Microsoft launched a clever ‘Browser you love(d) to hate’ campaign to entice the users back to its browser, Internet Explorer 10. As part of the campaign, the company has now released a new ad which claims that the browser stinks…less.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Apple has fired the manager who overlooked the development of Maps.
LM Ericsson is one of the leaders in the field of wireless infrastructure. The company has a number of highly valuable wireless patents to its name and has now claimed that Samsung has infringed its patents, filing a lawsuit against the South Korean electronics maker.
A number of rumors had been surrounding the anticipated launch of Apple’s new iMac machines. Some had claimed that the launch would be delayed until next year whereas others pegged it at the end of November. Affirming the latter, Apple has now announced that the new iMac machines will become available on November 30th.
Google has been able to beat Apple in terms of volume. Android sales have far outdone iPhone sales by a significant margin. However, despite this, the mobile web traffic generated by Android devices is a lot lower than that of iOS devices, a revelation made by IBM through Black Friday data.
Seems like Sandy Island, that was supposedly located between Australia and New Caledonia in the Coral Sea, is playing hide and seek. Though the island appeared in world maps for years, scientists say that it never existed in reality.