Hottest Blockbuster Products of Spring 2011

By Steve Brown

Many smartphones and tablets featuring beautiful designs and powerful configuration are unveiled earlier this year. HTC Incredible Droid 2, Samsung Galaxy S II, White iPhone 4, HTC Sensation, HTC Flyer Tablet, HP TouchPad with webOS 3.0 and Toshiba Regza AT300 are some among the most interesting products that are expected to be released in the upcoming days.

Toshiba has unveiled its first tablet running Android 3.0 Honeycomb in Japan, the Regza AT300. Priced at 723 dollars, the tablet is due for release this June with 0.1-inch WXGA screen, dual-core Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB internal memory and two cameras.

Toshiba Regza AT300

The Samsung Galaxy S II reboots one of the most favorite Android smart phones with a 1GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch super AMOLED screen and more angular case

The attractive images of the HP TouchPad with webOS 3.0 have made consumers eager for waiting. HP claims that this tablet will be available in the upcoming June

Two tablets Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 recently unveiled by Samsung are thinner and lighter than iPad 2. They will available on the market in early summer 2011

The HTC Incredible Droid 2 is considered as an excellent upgrade from the original Incredible due to its wonderful display, unibody aluminum design and solid 8-megapixel camera and HD camcorder.

The White iPhone 4 has finally arrived and will be available in Apple’s online and retail stores in nearly 30 countries around the world.

HTC has unveiled its latest in a line of smartphones, the HTC Sensation. The Sensation which appears with a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor will also be on sale in the upcoming June

The HTC Flyer Tablet is a 7-inch tablet device which runs Android 2.4 Gingerbread. The Flyer packs the requisite Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0+HS and two cameras

About the Author:
Jason Ford works as a web developer and an editor of a weekly technology magazine. With the passion in technology, he has published numerous articles to provide readers reliable information about technology products and hot technology events around the world.

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Interesting Facts About Firefox You May Not Know

By Lee Dobbins

Internet-users all over the world undoubtedly get familiar with Mozilla Firefox, a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation.

As of March 2011, Firefox is the second most widely used browser with approximately 30% of worldwide usage share of web browsers. However, few people know in detail great achievements Firefox has achieved since it set a Guinness Record in 2008 thanks to more than 8 million unique Firefox 3 downloads within the release day.

Recently, the tech world has warmly welcomed the Firefox 4.0 and expected the launch of Firefox 5, 6 and 7 in 2011.

Now, let's discover some interesting facts about the Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox 4.0

As soon as the Firefox 4.0 was released on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, it has a tremendous amount of downloads

Within just a few short time hours after being released, Mozilla Firefox 4 had been downloaded more than a million times. Particularly, it had nearly 6 million downloads, compared to Internet Explorer 9’s 2.3 million downloads at the end of the first day’s launch.

Mozilla Firefox 4 had a good start with nearly 6 million downloads within the first 24 hours 

Mozilla Firefox 4 retains great new features including a simplified interface with the new orange Firefox button (Windows only), pinned tabs for easy access to Web apps, tracking protection, and sync for bookmarks, history and passwords 

It also has a faster JavaScript rendering engine, hardware acceleration support and synchronization capabilities

Version 3.0

Mozilla Firefox 3, which was launched on June 17, 2008 and used version 1.9 of the Mozilla Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages, made a Guinness World Record with more than 8 million unique downloads on the first day of release.

The Mozilla Firefox 3 fixed many bugs, enhanced standard compliance and performed new web APIs 

It also featured a redesigned download manager, a new "Places" system for storing bookmarks and history, and separate themes for different operating systems

History of Firefox

The Firefox project has been changed its names several times. It was renamed from “Phoenix” to “Firebird” because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. Mozilla Firebird then became Mozilla Firefox on February 9, 2004.

Logo of the Firefox project through the time

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I am a web developer. I love technology and have a passion of writing articles about technology news, especially new products.

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