Week Firefox 3.6 Million Downloaded 17 times

Latest browser Mozilla Firefox 3.6 downloaded directly 4.5 million times in the first day of release. Recorded in a week browser has been downloaded more than 17 million times.

Softpedia reported 66 percent download the browser through the Mozilla site and 33 percent through fitu 'Check for Updates' which already exists in the browser before.

However, the achievement of the Firefox browser can not beat the 3.6 series of Firefox prior attainment, 3.5. Browser is downloaded approximately five million times on the day of its release. Throughout the history of Mozilla, Firefox 3.0 is the browser most often downloaded in the first day of the launch with 8 million downloads in the first 24 hours.

Upgrade latest browser Mozilla, Firefox 3.6 is claimed 15 percent faster than previous versions.

Computerworld tests are mentioned, the new Firefox 3.6 was released last week is the third fastest browser out of five tested browser for Windows. Firefox JavaScript sends three times faster than Opera 10 and four times faster than Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) of Microsoft.

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Kaspersky escape trial 'Real World' AV test lab

Internet Security 2010 has shown a high level of protection in tests by leading laboratories in Germany, AV-Test, as part of their Real World experiment. Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 was tested with the daily conditions using the latest malware that according to the methodology developed specifically by AV-Test for the purpose of this test. This test includes 12 Internet security solutions from a variety of popular different providers. Each solution tested against about 10 malware 'zero-day' new every 24 hours, (malware that had just appeared on the Internet), more than 60 days test period. Complete device from malicious software used in this test sample consisted of 600 active, including the exploits and malware that is distributed via email.

Solutions are allowed to apply a complete range of protection technologies, including URL filtering and applications that are blacklisted, behavioral analysis, signature-based detection. Keep in mind that traditionally, when analyzing the performance of an antivirus solution, only one type of protection technologies used, such as signature-based scanning (reactive protection) or proactive protection module. The effectiveness of protection offered is measured by two categories, namely 'Malware Detection' and 'Malware Blocking'. The criteria used include malware detection rates, the extent of the destructive activity of the malware can be blocked and the number of recorded false positive in the face of the collection malicious programs.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 received top ratings in tests of the Real World, ranked second in the category 'Malware Detection' (97.5 percent) and ranked third in the category 'Malware Blocking' (89.8 percent) and recorded very few false positive. Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 received outstanding results in tests of the Real World because it uses a unique synergy of technologies that effectively complement and enhance each other," said Director of the Anti-Malware Research Nikita Shvetsov, through its official statements.

According to him, Kaspersky believes in the near future testing in accordance with the antivirus solution that analyzes the test, the conditions of daily life, the effectiveness of the entire integrated circuit technology, there is every product that shape user behavior. Today, with tens of thousands of new malicious programs that appear on the Internet every day, only such tests are capable of showing the real level of protection. This is why Kaspersky full support AV-Test laboratories are developing and implementing innovative methods in the dynamic test.

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Taiwan expand smallest microchip

Smallest microchip successfully made by Taiwan, which developed the product is capable of being products such as mobile phones, or laptops will be cheaper.

Development conducted at the National Nano Laboratory Equipment in the city of Hsinchu, northern Taiwan. This company is claiming a lot of transistors that moved into the space smaller chips than anything else.

As is known, the laptop weighs approximately 1.5 kilograms, while the latest developments that could notebook computers lightweight weighing 500 grams.

"The phone and laptop can be smaller, lighter and cheaper with this microchip technology," explained head laboratium Fu-Liang Yang, who quoted Tech Tree.

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Acer No. 2 in the world, beat Dell

A few years ago probably still sound a foreign Acer ear. Today, Taiwanese computer makers are increasingly showing its fangs, with the second ranked in the computer market in the world.For the first time Acer sitting in second position within a period of three months, shifting the position of rival Dell previously entrenched in these rankings.

Based information from market research firm iSuppli, sales of Acer computers reached 16.6 percent in the third quarter 2009, compared with the same quarter last year.This percentage puts Acer market share of 13.4 percent in the third quarter of this year. Up from is the same quarter last year, by 11.6 percent. Such information is quoted from TG Daily, Sunday (6/12/2009).

"Growth of Acer to become number two in the global PC business not only reflects the performance of its strength in the notebook segment, but also in the historic growth in Asia as a major force in the computer industry," said iSuppli analyst Matthew Wilkins. Computer unit shipments have increased from year to year. iSuppli said, computer shipments worldwide in the third quarter of 2009 reached up to 79.9 million units.

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