Drivers News Archive

New Firefox 3.6 is arriving with new features

The new version 3.6 of Mozilla's Firefox will bring a new interesting feature that allows to determine on which computer is installed, in same mode like in Apple devices iPhone and iPod touch.
New Firefox version will let to use a device's onboard accelerometer to adjust displayed information based on the orientation of the computer, and will be even useful to create web pages with virtual orientation, like pages that aligns to the ground rather than the laptop's screen; in fact many modern devices have these possibilties and many others will comnig soon.
Mozilla’s new device orientation JavaScript API is very simple to implement and was originally built as something the team would include in a future mobile browser release.
These are augmented reality features, that surely will bring market expand for Firefox with widespread adoption, and let Mozilla to face off the rampant Chrome competition.

Laptop market is very changed this year and the consumers choices reflect that in the surveys: thanks to EEE netbook winner serie, Asus is on top in customer satisfation with almost 9/10 positive comments.
Second place goes to Sony above all thanks to Vaio models, and the third at Lenovo.
Out of this little scoreboard, we find Apple and his special line that meet a consumers satisfation more than Asus.
The portable PC market is in fast evolution and consumers want always more capabilities for low prices range; computers users demanding better laptops with low weight and before making a purchase, they look even graphics capability and overall look and batteries life.
The last sector is where Asus makes hard improvements, bring its EEE series at 6-7 hours of batteries life, against 2-3 of big traditional laptops.
Then Asus notebooks were rated highest by users, and overtake some famous manifactures like HP, Dell and Acer.

Nvidia announced a new program called Impulse Nvidia Edition which helps to locate video cards graphics drives. The application will detects the last drivers for users video card on manifacturer site, and let to update the drivers at latest version available, interesting above all for who loves gaming entertainment.
The single desktop program will automates the installation process - like Driver Detective do for all drivers - and provides additional featurs like online game purchaces, forum community to sovle drivers problems and more.

Often when there are games start problems, there is a graphic drivers problem behind, that doesn't let an optimal gaming experience; old drivers can cause games start failure, slowing frame rate performances and sudden irritants blocks.
Impulse Edition will be available next summer and will be a must have for all Nvidia cards owners.

Windows XP continue to be in PC user's hearts, even if Windows 7 is so close, for Net Applications, which tracks the operating systems used by more than 150 million people worldwide, Windows XP's share of the Operative System market fell only 1.1 percentage points during last month.
Then Windows XP is still the predominant OS, running on more than 70 percent of all PC in the world, the users have come down from more than 78 percent as of last year while Windows Vista has almost 19 percent share, clear sign that users don't love it.

Nowadays Windows 7 is the fourth OS after XP, Vista and Mac OS, and its usage has already hit more than 1% percent with the new release candidate made by Microsoft.

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