Firefox 5: Track Me, Just Don't <i>Track</i> Me |
- Firefox 5: Track Me, Just Don't <i>Track</i> Me
- Can AT&T's Speedy LTE Survive Outside a Lab?
- 10 to 1: Can Intel Beat Apple?
- When FOSS Became Mainstream
- Fooducate: A Brilliant Professor of All Things Edible
| Firefox 5: Track Me, Just Don't <i>Track</i> Me Posted: 23 May 2011 12:09 PM PDT  The Mozilla Foundation launched a beta version of its fifth edition of the Firefox Web browser Monday -- just eight weeks after it rolled out Firefox 4. This includes a mobile version for Android as well as versions for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops. Desktop and mobile versions have a Do Not Track privacy feature, and the desktop version's features include a channel switcher that lets users switch between Firefox's Aurora, Beta and Release channels. Firefox 5 includes a location-aware browsing feature. |
| Can AT&T's Speedy LTE Survive Outside a Lab? Posted: 23 May 2011 06:00 AM PDT  AT&T Labs has demonstrated download speeds of nearly 29 Mbps on an experimental LTE network in Plano, Texas, according to a report in GigaOm. Upload speeds reportedly hit 10.4 Mbps in the demo. AT&T, however, is saying little publicly about its work-in-progress network. "The network is experimental and won't reflect real-world speeds, which I'm not going to speculate on at this point," AT&T spokesperson Mark Siegel told TechNewsWorld. The reported 29 Mbps would greatly outpace the speeds of other wireless networks. |
| 10 to 1: Can Intel Beat Apple? Posted: 23 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT  The Intel-Apple war has been on a break ever since Intel won and Apple moved its PCs to x86. However, Apple has clearly been itching for a rematch with the iPad, and it has been chewing up PC market share at an impressive rate while Intel's been caught napping. Well, Intel has promised 10, count them, 10 new iPad butt-kicking tablets at Computex, and it is roaring in with wallets open and guns a-blazing. Can Intel take the momentum from Apple -- a firm that now appears more unbeatable than Intel ever did? |
| Posted: 23 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT  With so much turbulence going on in the FOSS world these days -- let's not even mention the "U" word this week, shall we? -- it's always nice when a straightforward and unambiguous piece of good news comes along. That, fortunately, was just what happened last week, when North Bridge Venture Partners announced the results of its annual survey on the future of open source. "Five years ago, open source was still a movement that was in its nascent stages and its future was promising but still unknown," said Michael Skok, a general partner with North Bridge. |
| Fooducate: A Brilliant Professor of All Things Edible Posted: 23 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT  After scanning the barcodes of various packaged food products with an app called Fooducate, it doesn't take long to understand one thing: Almost any food that comes in a sealed wrapper has a bunch of chemicals squirted into it or has been funkily modified so that it only barely resembles healthy food. I think most moderately health-conscious people have heard the basics of this information before: Packaged food is bad, usually made with things like high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, various additives, preservatives and food colorings. |
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