Ever wondered why laptops are not lasting these days as much as they used to? There is a study for that. Square Trade has taken the hardship of an extended survey into failure/malfunction rate of laptops and netbooks and has come up with an interesting report. The report suggests that as much as about 30% [...]
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In case your mouse click have stopped working (not very unsual in Ubuntu), you can try to use the workarounds suggested here.
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Netapplications just updated its browser market share data to include the October 2009 data. The published data shows that IE is loosing ground mostly to Chrome but also to FireFox and Safari. Here is the hard data:
Month
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari
Chrome
Opera
Netscape
Other
December, 2008
70.50%
21.69%
3.41%
1.40%
2.17%
0.42%
0.41%
January, 2009
69.72%
22.11%
3.62%
1.52%
2.23%
0.43%
0.37%
February, 2009
69.23%
22.58%
3.47%
1.54%
2.19%
0.62%
0.37%
March, 2009
68.46%
23.30%
3.63%
1.62%
2.12%
0.50%
0.37%
April, 2009
67.77%
23.84%
3.53%
1.79%
2.04%
0.64%
0.39%
May, 2009
68.10%
22.75%
3.70%
2.18%
2.06%
0.81%
0.40%
June, 2009
68.32%
22.43%
3.79%
2.40%
2.03%
0.60%
0.42%
July, 2009
67.68%
22.47%
4.07%
2.59%
1.97%
0.67%
0.55%
August, 2009
66.97%
22.98%
4.07%
2.84%
2.04%
0.49%
0.61%
September, 2009
65.71%
23.75%
4.24%
3.17%
2.19%
0.35%
0.59%
October, 2009
64.64%
24.07%
4.42%
3.58%
2.17%
0.33%
0.79%
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Creative has revealed a prototype of a new e-book reader. Read more here and here.
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