google - Page 344 of 488 - The Tech Journal

New Treat From Mozilla Firefox 9: Support for Android Tablets

Lately we’ve heard a mix of bitter sweet news from Mozilla but the end of the year is certainly impressive. After the company was rumored of losing about 84% of its revenue Google announced renewing the contract for another three years to be the default search engine on Firefox, and the financial disaster was avoided. With good times ahead, Mozilla recently released a new version of its desktop web browser, Firefox 9, albeit still in beta. Now, Firefox 9 for Android tablets just landed.

Yahoo! To Sell its Asian Assets? Crisis Time!

Yahoo! is apparently considering making some drastic changes, reports the New York Times. So, this week, the company’s board members will decide in a big meeting weather or not they will sell stakes in Asian assets to their majority owners. What are the assets you might wonder?

Sling Media Slingbox PRO-HD SB300-100

Take your entire HD home theater with you wherever you go with the Slingbox PRO-HD. Connect to multiple A/V devices and tune into your favorite TV shows, sporting events, and special programming in stunning, true-to-life 1080i high definition. The PRO-HD gives you the same features and ease of use as the Slingbox SOLO, plus a high-quality HD viewing experience-anywhere in the world. Easily connect up to three of your home-theater devices to the PRO-HD and take your entire entertainment center with you-on your desktop, Mac, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone.

More Than 700,000 Android Handsets Are Being Daily Activated

Android market share grew steadily since the platform was launched three years ago and now Google conquered reached a new milestone. As Andy Rubin, SVP of Mobile and Android head announced on his Twitter page late on Tuesday, Google can now show off impressive activations figures. The number of Android devices activated each day now reached to more than 700,000. “For those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don’t count re-sold devices), and “activations” means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service,” explained Andy Rubin.

Wow! YouTube Registered 1 Trillion Playbacks in 2011

YouTube has some fascinating figures to share with us. Google just announced that in 2011, there were more than 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) playbacks on YouTube. This actually means that every person on this Planet gets a slice of 140 videos. And we have another bit of news. Apart from professionally shot music videos by major label companies, the most popular video out there in YouTube territory was Rebecca Black’s Friday.

Archos 70b Android 3.2 Honeycomb Tab At $199

The new Archos 70b tablet powered by Android 3.2 Honeycomb will be less than two hundred USD. The 70b Internet Tablet, the company’s first Honeycomb-based slate features with a 1.2 GHz processor, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, 8 gigs of flash storage, 512MB of RAM and WiFi connectivity. The Archos 70b may familiar to the tablet lovers, that is because this is an enhanced version of the Archos 70 IT Gen 8, with an upgraded capacitive touch screen display.

Apple Working on Computers That You Can Wear

According to New York Times, Apple researchers are busy in developing the prototypes of such products which you can wear. Product which you can wear on your wrist, for instance, and they may send information back to iPhone. These products will also be compatible with other Apple devices such as iPad and iPod. According to the article, Google is also working on similar products for Android smartphones.

Download Redsn0w 0.9.9b9 For Jailbreak and iOS 5.1 Support

The well-known iPhone-Dev Team has been leading the charge on the jailbreak front. Not only the team is known for releasing the earliest scoops on jailbreaks, it also compromises of some of the very qualified iOS hackers online. In the latest update, the team has released the latest version of their jailbreaking utility, redsn0w. The latest version is dubbed Redsn0w 0.9.9b9 and comes with iOS 5.0.1 support. Read further for download links.