FireFox 3.5 has landed today as it was planned to be released today.

Firefox 3.5 was originally slated to be called Firefox 3.1, but the company decided in March that it had added enough new features to justify the larger bump in number from last summer's Firefox 3.0.

Among the features to debut in Firefox 3.5 are a new, faster JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey; a privacy mode, which some call "porn mode" for one of its more obvious applications; and location-aware browsing. Mozilla has also touted numerous under-the-hood performance improvements, ranging from support for new video and audio HTML5 tags to support for Web worker threads -- enhanced scripting that lets site developers shift JavaScript computations to a background thread.

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Microsoft has again extended the life of Windows XP by April 2011. This happened after a noted research analyst criticized Microsoft's plans to limit sales of Windows XP PCs, the company said it would extend the aged operating system's lifespan in the post-Windows 7 world to as late as April 2011.

On Tuesday, Michael Silver of Gartner took Microsoft to the woodshed over the company's decision to let computer makers sell PCs with Windows XP for only six months after Windows 7 debuts.

Silver blasted the idea as a "real mess," and said that it would make it more difficult for companies to manage their PCs, and more expensive to upgrade them to Windows 7 down the road.

Hours after Silver blasted the plan, however, Microsoft backed off the six-month limit, and confirmed a new policy.

"Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate customers will have the option to downgrade to Windows XP Professional from PCs that ship within 18 months following the general availability of Windows 7 or until the release of a Windows 7 service pack, whichever is sooner, and if a service pack is developed," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail.

"This is good," said Silver of Microsoft's new plan. "It proves that Microsoft listens to their customers. They have changed licensing decisions in response to customer demand before, and hopefully they will do it again, because this is still not great."

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According to a confidential memo that was sent to PC Makers by Microsoft and was obtained by CNET, Microsoft is planning to ship Windows 7 to europe without Internet Explorer. This is most likely because of the claim of European Union that by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows 7 it is being anti-competitive in the browser market.

Microsoft's lawyers responded by saying:

"Our decision to only offer IE separately from Windows 7 in Europe cannot, of course, preclude the possibility of alternative approaches emerging through Commission processes. Other alternatives have been raised in the Commission proceedings, including possible inclusion in Windows 7 of alternative browsers or a 'ballot screen' that would prompt users to choose from a specific set of Web browsers."

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Sarah Sharp the Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel This makes Linux the first operating system to support the standard.

According to Ankika Kehrer, "The basic specifications for USB 3.0 show it to have a transfer rate of 5.0 Gbps. The standard was announced in November 2008 by the USB Implementers Forum, Inc. The Board of directors of the Forum are represented by companies such as NEC, HP, Microsoft and Intel (which has the current chairmanship)."

Source: Neowin

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Sources at Expreview have informed that GT210 will starting shipping to OEM's from July while the GT220 will not be shipped to channel until August. It was first rumored that nVidia had already shipped it's 40nm GPUs to the big OEMs.

The ship amount will depend on TSMC’s 40nm production. Though TSMC’s May sales show improvement, the 40nm yield issue is not likely to be significantly improved anytime soon.

Source: Expreview

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According to Intel's roadmap that was leaked earlier this year, the six-core Nehalem will be out next year, but according bit-tech Intel has decided to release it later this year. The new 6-core Nehalem will come up with the LGA1366 package. Users of current X58 motherboards will just need to update their bios to use this processor. It is unclear yet what would be the name of this new chip but it is quite certain that it wouldn't fall into the i7 series.

Source: Expreview, bit-tech

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PhotoFast has recently annouced the world's smallest SATA Solid State Drive, the G-monster Mini. It comes with either SLC (Single-Level Cell) or MLC (Multi-Level Cell) NAND flash memory chips. Measuring 25 (W) *40 (L) *6.6 (H) mm, The G-Monster mini features SATA 3.0Gbps interface, and delivers maximum read/write speed of 100MB/70MB per second respectively. Backed by one-year warranty, G-Monster Mini SSD is expected to hit store from July.

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