Posts Tagged Google

Pioneer Computers launches Android 3.0 tablet

With Apple having launched its iPad 2 (at least in the US), all eyes are now on the what will likely be a river of tablet devices based on Google’s new Android 3.0 operating system codenamed “Honeycomb”. Australian vendor Pioneer Computers has announced its first model at the Hong Kong Expo, the new DreamBook ePad [...]

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IE9 gets 2.35million downloads on first day

Microsoft has 2.35million reasons to smile a bit more today after the company announced that was the number of downloads of its latest web browser. Internet Explorer 9 jumped out of the blocks on March 15 and offers new features compared with IE8 such as support for H.264 and WebM video through new HTML5 specifications. [...]

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Microsoft puts back H.264 video into Google’s Chrome browser

While Google is making waves, claiming Microsoft’s Bing search engine is stealing results from Google, the spat between the two will only increase after news that Microsoft is set to launch an H.264 plugin for Google’s Chrome web browser. Google announced earlier this year that due to controversy surrounding patent status of the H.264 video [...]

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Nexus S out in the US, who knows when in Australia

The world’s first Android 2.3 smartphone appear in stores in the US overnight, but at this stage, while Samsung’s Australian operation has said it will be bringing the phone to Australia, it sounds like it’ll be a case of “don’t hold your breath.” The Samsung-built Google-inspired Nexus S is available in the US from Best [...]

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Nexus S phone goes on sale in the US today

The world gets its first taste of Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread today when the Samsung-made Google-inspired Nexus S smartphone goes on sale in the US today. The phone, built on a Samsung Galaxy S base, is the first phone in the world to run the new version of Google’s mobile operating system. While the phone [...]

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