Category: Tech News

XP SP3 out by 29th April?

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InF

According to this Engadget article, yes.

The much anticipated XP SP3 will be coming out on 29th April, hitting Windows Update and Microsoft Download Centre.

There’s not much info about it for now, so more on this as I find something interesting.

For now, I know that there will be around 10% speed boost, and possibly a version of DirectX 10 for XP. Maybe! Nothing confirmed yet.

I also downloaded the Whitepaper of SP3. There is no mention of DirectX 10 for XP. It’s just a rumor I heard. But I can say there’s some new “features”, mainly regarding security issues. Like the ability to skip entering a product key at install, but later supply it as part of Windows Genuine Advantage.

For people who want the Whitepaper, it’s here.

Demonoid is Back Online

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Guru

Demonoid

Finally the guys behind the little devil made it. There are back online, according to an article by torrentfreak, they are now based in Russia. Will it be their save haven? Lets all sit back and watch. Those who already have a Demonoid account, Leech and Seed the best you can!!! Let the community kick back to life again.

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Mauritius Telecom and Orange??

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InF

You must have noticed by now that Mauritius Telecom, the major Mauritian ISP, is conducting a major advertising campaign, promoting its change of identity. The famous blue “t” logo has changed to an orange colour. Same for the “Mauritius” in “Mauritius Telecom”. There’s also this big billboard advert that says “Le 17 Avril, nous aceuillons un invité de marque” (“On the 17th April, we welcome a distinguished guest” in French). This heralds the partnership of Mauritius Telecom with Orange (former Wanadoo)?

I believe yes. This has been hinted for a long time now. Orange will now be a partner of Mauritius Telecom, if not administering it. Apparently, Orange will now be active in the Internet Service sector, as well as the Mobile and Telecommunications sector.

There’s not much information about this event circulating around for now, and there has been some issues raised by the trade unions about a name change from Mauritius Telecom to Orange or something similar. Not much, apart from that.

What this means for us? Do you think there will be better services offered to Mauritians? More bandwidth, resulting in better Internet speeds? Better customer support? Let’s hear your views! :P

Mauritius Telecom + Orange. The outcome?
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Firefox 3 Prowls, the Blue E Shudders!

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InF

Firefox 3 is about to be released from Beta (it’s STILL in Beta), and will soon be available for grabs by the general public, with an estimated final version release date of June 2008.

Firefox 3 boasts about increased stability, much less memory consumption, a better user interface, more personalisation and my personal guess, revamped security.

Firefox users do know that the fox is a hungry b*****d that eats memory. You’ll usually see FFox eating as much as 110MB in your task manager, after you have around 5-6 tabs open, and having browsed for around 2 hours. Add in some add-ons and it’ll even climb further. It takes as much memory as those year 1999 “high-end” PC games!

But what I do know is that, seeing the success FFox has enjoyed since now, I predict a massive download rush in June. I dunno yet what IE has in stock, but it better take out the big guns to counter the Firefox 3 wave that’s about to take over the Internets! :D

Remember? Firefox got 5.6 million downloads in the first 2 weeks, and has topped the 25 million downloads mark just after?

Downloads of Firefox 1.0 had reached 25.24 million as of Friday, just over 100 days since its release, according to the Mozilla Foundation, developers of the browser. A preview release of Firefox 1.1 is scheduled for April.
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Well, the browser wars just turned a lot lot hotter! :D

OMFG! I just found out that Firefox tops 500 millions download mark! WTF! Source!!