1 Million Copies of Safari for Windows Downloaded

This article was written on June 15, 2007 by CyberNet.

It’s been just four days since the public could get their hands on Safari for Windows.  Ryan reviewed Safari earlier this week and noted the features that it has to offer, as well as some of its shortcomings including security concerns.

Yesterday Apple announced that during the first 48 hours since it was available, more than 1 million copies of Safari were downloaded. That is pretty impressive considering some of the bad rap that it’s gotten. Perhaps it’s because this was an unexpected move from Apple which generated a lot of buzz, and so everybody wanted to check it out to see what it’s all about?

Apple sounded pretty happy with the number of downloads, but I’m not sure whether that number is a good or bad thing. There have been many problems with it already, and now one million people have already formed their opinion of the browser and may not be willing to go back and try it again after Apple corrects the problems and releases it out of beta.

I’m sure there are also many curious developers who wanted to get their hands on it, which is beneficial to Apple anyways. The more developers that start working with it, the more applications we’ll see made available for the iPhone which Apple is betting on to be the breadwinner.

Apple has already released an updated version, Beta 3.0.1. that includes security improvements. If you haven’t yet downloaded it, or you’d like to get the updated version, you can download that here. (Thanks for the tip Cory!)

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Dell kills Alienware M15x, government denies it ever existed

This is sort of the gaming laptop version of a politician stepping down to spend more time with his family. We’ve confirmed with Alienware today that the M15x system is no longer available — the company has opted to focus its efforts on the rest of its line of glowing extraterrestrial gaming laptops. After all, while the 15-inch form factor will no doubt be missed by some, devoted gamers should be able to find solace in the arms of, say, an M11x, M14x, M17x, or M18x. It may be gone from sight, but surely grainy teardown footage from a New Mexico bunker can’t be far away.

[Thanks, Zach]

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Ubisoft founds motion picture division, vows to keep Jake Gyllenhaal working

Quick show of hands: how many of you like playing video games? And how many of you would like to watch movies based on video games you’ve played? No doubt slightly more sophisticated market research went into Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the game maker’s unique approach to adapting games like Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell for film and TV, meaning we’ll finally see movies about assassins. Last year’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time film grossed $335 million worldwide, surely thanks to Jake Gyllenhaal’s smoldering yet boyish intensity, and the French game publisher clearly wants a bigger slice of Hollywood pie — it also recently bought visual effects studio Hybride Technologies. You might as well get in line now for Battle Tag: The Movie.

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Amazon tablet shipping later this year according to new tattle

We’ve got a pretty good inkling that it’s coming — the big question is when will Amazon finally ship an LCD tablet. According to DigiTimes, and its occasionally trusty sources at upstream component makers, when is defined by the second half of 2011. What’s more, the media tablet will feature a Fringe Field Switching LCD display and touch panel from Amazon fave E Ink Holdings, a company better known for the technology behind the Kindle’s EPD e-paper displays. According to DigiTimes, Quanta has received the manufacturing honors with production expected to peak at about 700,000 – 800,000 units per month. So yeah, the Amazon Kindle tablet won’t be sporting a Mirasol display according to this gossip. Then again, it’s only gossip so anything goes.

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LG P430 and P530 Blade laptops bedazzle with slim bezels, aluminum bodies, and Core i7

We heard of a bezel-hating LG Shuriken display sneaking its way onto Acer laptops recently, but the Korean company has wisely opted to debut that cutting-edge technology in its own portable computers first. The 14-inch P430 and 15.6-inch P530 mark the start of LG’s new Blade series of laptops, which are the result of some obsessive slimming work at the LG labs — display thickness is 4.5mm and 4.7mm, respectively, while the bezel on the 14-inch model is so narrow as to fit its screen within the dimensions of a traditional 13.3-inch laptop. Weight, at 1.94kg on the P430 and 2.2kg on P530, is also said to be on par with machines offering significantly smaller screens, but that’s not at the sacrifice of construction materials as brushed aluminum is used to strengthen LG’s new slimsters. A Core i7 CPU and GeForce GT520M GPU will provide the internal firepower, though the rest of the hardware specs are as yet unannounced. The P430 will launch in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America at the end of May, to be followed by the P530 in June. Full PR after the break.

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Video Chat Coming To BlackBerry PlayBook

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If you’re a Playbook guy and your iPad-toting friends keep rubbing FaceTime in your face, you’ll soon have an alternative. The Playbook is getting its own video chat app later this months.

The chatting app will let users place video or voice calls to others via Wi-Fi, using the front-facing camera but also letting them switch to the rear-facing camera if they want to show off their car, girlfriend, or anything else.

RIM is also working on getting dedicated apps to match what’s already available on the iPad, including Facebook and Hulu Plus.

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Supply chain issues limit ASUS’ Eee Pad Transformer production to 10,000 a month?

So, it seems that ASUS’ Eee Pad Transformer has been hard to find, at least in part due to reasons other than customer demand. According to Netbook News, the Taiwanese company is having trouble sourcing the supplies needed to build the tablet / keyboard combo in sufficient numbers. For now, that means only 10,000 Transformers a month — a fraction of the 300,000 ASUS was reportedly hoping to make. Word on the web suggests components in greater quantities are coming soon, and production will ramp up significantly in June. Until then, would-be owners will have to go the beg, borrow, or steal route to get one. Investing in a horseshoe or four-leaf clover might not be a bad idea, either.

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Free 32MB USB Drive From Audi

This article was written on April 09, 2006 by CyberNet.

Free 32MB USB Drive From Audi

If you missed Microsoft’s USB Drive giveaway, then here is your chance to get another one. Audi is giving away 32MB USB drives loaded with brochure information on a car of your choice. All you have to do is fill out your information and select which vehicle you would like to receive information on. It should take 6-8 weeks for delivery so you will have to have some patience. Guess you can’t complain when you aren’t paying anything.

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Working Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 spotted, handled in Germany (video)


We had a chance to peek at a glass-protected dummy version of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 8.9 at CTIA, but the real thing popped up at an event in Germany over the weekend, in all its svelte gadget glory. Our friend Johannes went hands-on with the tablet in Frankfurt, and liked what he saw. The version he saw was noticeably thinner than the prototype 8.9-incher that we got to smudge up in March (it’s even slimmer than the iPad 2), and if this Europe appearance is any indication, Sammy may be on track to launch these sometime this summer, as promised.

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Sony Online Entertainment Service Suspended

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In what appears to be two steps back in Sony’s response to a hacker intrusion to its network, the company has cut off access to all games powered by its MMO subsidiary Sony Online Entertainment.

The company claims it is a new issue that has arisen since an assumed group of hackers cracked into the PlayStation Network in mid April.

In a statement, SOE said credit card data of more than 23,000 customers have been potentially compromised. However, the threat only exists to those who have a billing address outside the US.

Via Computerworld