Archive for March, 2009

Apple iPod shuffle: World’s Smallest Music Player

Apple iPod shuffle: World’s Smallest Music Player

Apple today introduced the all-new iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you. The revolutionary new VoiceOver feature enables iPod shuffle to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. The third generation iPod shuffle is significantly smaller than a AA battery, holds up to 1,000 songs and is easier to use with all of the controls conveniently located on the earphone cord.

BlackBerry Storm – storm between mobile

BlackBerry Storm – storm between mobile

In the fight for the most advanced multifunctional mobile phone also interfere company Research In Motion (RIM) and sent to the market law of the storm – BlackBerry Storm.

Series of mobiles with screens, sensitive to the touch, has opened the iPhone; the game has now joined the BlackBerry Storm, which is based on technology ClickThrough. The latter gives the user a sense of feedback; it works by having the choice of function keys or presses the on screen key which slightly bents.

Firefox 3.1 beta

Firefox 3.1 beta

Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, sent out the call Tuesday afternoon on mozilla.dev.planning: It’s time to lock the trees and land the bugs on beta 3 of the 3.1 version of the browser.

As of 3pm PST, just nine bug landings stood between the development team and handoff of mozilla-1.9.1 to the Release Engineering crew according to the mozilla.dev.planning thread on Google Groups. Beltzner noted in his Twitter stream that he “is hoping we get done with beta 3 code for Firefox tonight” after a day so busy he was wondering if he needed to block off time for bathroom breaks.