Two years. Can you believe it’s only been two years since we started browsing the internet faster than a potato can tear through the air? Well, Google can, and it’s certainly not been sitting around during that time, improving Chrome’s JavaScript performance by a factor of 3, and throwing in a litany of additional features, like tab side-by-side view, themes, auto-translation, and bookmark and preference sync across machines. To celebrate the anniversary, the company’s uploaded version numero 6 to its stable channel, which brings a few more GUI optimizations and some bug fixes to the table. Hardware graphics acceleration isn’t yet included in the public release, but it too shall be joining the party before long.

Chrome is now 2 years old! Google celebrates with release of version 6 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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IPod Touch – Scosche – Shopping – Digital Portable Players – Consumer Electronics

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iOS devices of course include the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad tallied up as 1.1% of all hardware that used the internet. They ousted Linux with that number which fell for the second straight month to 0.85%. Windows took first place with Mac OS coming in 2nd. Read More

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Introducing the release of new app for iPhone and iPod devices called GameQuartet 1.0. The app was developed by KeitaiArts and it is their first game released for Apple users. GameQuartet 1.0 is app combining four newly created, different and unique games: Peg Solitaire, Boule, Sliding Tiles, and Word Squares.
According to the legend Peg Solitaire game was invented by a French aristocrat imprisoned in the Bastille in the seventeenth century, traditionally played with small pegs or marbles. GameQuartet version of Peg Solitaire is based on the classic board puzzle but is enlivened with entertaining animations, sound effects and the player attempts to clear the board by jumping the pegs.

Boule game is based on unfamiliar form of roulette, nowadays played in France only and comes from eighteenth century. New version is more like original casino roulette type game, containing animated layout board and rolling ball.

Sliding Tiles is based on traditional American sliding-tile pocket puzzle formed in the end of the nineteenth century. Sliding Tiles displays a mathematically generated pattern, which varies from game to game, instead of showing numbers on the 15 tiles. This game offers visual challenge of a jigsaw puzzle featured with the mechanical challenge involved in moving the tiles to their correct positions.
Word Squares is challenging game including 30 different games and having a simple content. The game is associated with nineteenth century England and is based on popular word-square amusements.

Other Features:
* Each game has a distinct objective and evaluates the player’s performance
 * The games can be configured and sound effects turned off for discreet playing
 * On iOS 4, GameQuartet takes advantage of the suspended mode so that users can pause the app and then quickly resume play
 * On all supported iOS versions, game states are saved and restored, so the player can resume right at the point where play was interrupted
 * No advertisements

Device Requirements:
 * Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
 * Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
 * 1.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
GameQuartet 1.0 is currently $0.99 (USD) and is available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Not satisfied to simply trump Google’s daily device activation numbers, Steve Jobs added insult to injury at the Apple press conference this afternoon, claiming that unspecified “friends” have been counting handset upgrades in their statistical totals and not just newly activated phones. As you might imagine, Google was not terribly pleased at this turn of events, and issued the following retort: “The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services.” Now, we don’t honestly know who’s telling the truth here and we’d like to be able to take both companies at their word, but this isn’t the first time even during this particular Apple shindig that questionable claims were thrown out as fact.

[Thanks, Kamal]

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iPhone 3G – iPhone – Smartphones – Handhelds – Wallpapers and Themes

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Tonight at its annual music-centric event Apple dropped the bomb on a handful of iPhone news as well. Most of all, it’s the iOS 4.1 update for iPhone. The Apple iPad will sit this one out but will join in…

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