The British Advertising Standards Authority ruled that a new Apple iPhone TV advertisement misled consumers, and hence should never be aired again.

The advert claims that iPhone gives you access to “all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone”, but the ASA ruled that the iPhone’s lack of Java and Flash support means that this claim is misleading.

Apple had argued its claim referred to availability of webpages, rather than their specific appearance.

The advert “gave a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone”, said Olivia Campbell, a spokesperson for the ASA. “Because the iPhone doesn’t support Flash or Java, you couldn’t really see the internet in its full glory.”

“They made a very general claim that you can see the internet in its entirety, and actually that’s not quite true - so we’ve upheld.”

Google today launched Google Chrome, a new open source browser intended to create a better web experience for users around the world.

Available in beta in more than 40 languages, Google Chrome is a new approach to the browser that’s based on the simplicity and power that users have come to expect from Google products.

In the early days of the Internet, web pages were frequently little more than text. But today the web has evolved into a powerful platform that enables users to collaborate with friends and colleagues through email and other web applications, edit documents, watch videos, listen to music, manage finances and much more. Google Chrome was built for today’s web and for the applications of tomorrow.

“We think of the browser as the window to the web - it’s a tool for users to interact with the web sites and applications they care about, and it’s important that we don’t get in the way of that experience,” said Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management, Google Inc. “Just like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome has a simple user interface with a sophisticated core to enable the modern web.”

Google Chrome was designed to make it easy for users to search and navigate the web for the content they’re looking for.
- A combined search and address bar quickly takes users where they want to go, often in just a few keystrokes.
- When users open a new tab in Google Chrome, they’ll see a page that includes snapshots of their most-visited sites, recent searches and bookmarks, making it even easier to navigate the web.
- Each browser tab operates as a separate process; by isolating tabs, should one tab crash or misbehave, others remain stable and responsive, and users can continue working without having to restart Google Chrome.
- Google also built a new JavaScript engine, V8, which not only speeds up today’s web applications, but enables a whole new class of web applications that couldn’t exist on today’s browsers.

“While we see this as a fundamental shift in the way people think about browsers, we realize that we couldn’t have created Google Chrome on our own,” said Linus Upson, Director of Engineering, Google Inc. “Google Chrome was built upon other open source projects that are making significant contributions to browser technology and have helped to spur competition and innovation.”

Google Chrome is being released as an open source project under the name Chromium. The intent is that Google will help make future browsers better by contributing the underlying technology in Google Chrome to the market, while continuing to develop additional features.

Google Chrome is being released in beta for Windows in over 100 countries in the following languages: Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Turkish, English (US), English (UK), Arabic, Czech, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Filipino, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Thai, Vietnamese, and Estonian.
Google Chrome for Mac and Linux users will be available in the coming months.

Intel announced today that desktop processors based on the company’s upcoming new microarchitecture (codenamed “Nehalem”) will be formally branded Intel Core processor.

The first products in this new family of processors, including an “Extreme Edition” version, will carry an i7 identifier and will be formally branded as Intel Core i7 processor. This is the first of several new identifiers to come as different products launch over the next year.

“The Core name is and will be our flagship PC processor brand going forward,” said Sean Maloney, Intel Corporation executive vice president and general manager, Sales and Marketing Group. “Expect Intel to focus even more marketing resources around that name and the Core i7 products starting now.”

The Intel Core processor brand name has gained broad awareness, preference, and market momentum over the past several years. The Intel Core name remains the logical choice for Intel’s latest family of processors. The Intel Core i7 processor brand logo will be available for high-performance desktop PCs with a separate black logo for Intel’s highest-end “Extreme Edition.” Intel will include processor model numbers to differentiate each chip.

Initial products based on this microarchitecture are expected to be in production in the fourth quarter of this year. These processors will feature Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, also known as simultaneous multi-threading, and are capable of handling eight software “threads” on four processor cores.

Nvidia released today the GeForce Power Pack a free compilation of games, demos, and mod packs for PC that takes advantage of CUDA and PhysX on GeForce 8 and higher Nvidia graphics cards. Read more »

Less than 2 weeks in market and it is no secret that iPhone 3G faces trouble with 3G calls and high rate data transmission. Read more »

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun sampling low-density, higher-performance solid state drives (SSDs) that are only 30 percent of the size of 2.5-inch SSDs and highly cost-efficient to manufacture. Read more »

HP today announced an unprecedented milestone in mobile computing: up to 24 hours of continuous notebook operation on a single battery charge. Read more »

Microsoft today unveiled the world’s most advanced tracking technology, Microsoft BlueTrack Technology, which allows consumers to take their mice anywhere and work with confidence on more surfaces than before. Read more »

I just recently returned to blogging. If you have noticed in my header I inserted a dock which looks familiar to what MAC is using or rocket dock/object dock for windows. Well this dock represents hyperlinks in my blog, some icons doesn’t have links yet though still working on it since I’m very busy with my project in C# and DBMS. Well this dock is made possible because of JQuery, JQuery is a javascript file pact with javascript functions that makes amazing features for your webpage. Even wordpress is using JQuery. You can download and learn JQuery here. Nothing much for an blog update. But the docks looks pretty good.

During our intramural’s the Engineering course hosted a DOTA tournament for the students who has nothing to do during the intramural’s. Well I was one of those students who has nothing to do together with Sean, Didi, Master Yap. So we decided to join this tournament so we included ITE basketball player Paul Mark and ITE volleyball player Jenver. So it was a Wednesday when the tournament started. Sad to say we got beaten during our first game. Our game ended nearly 1PM. So we decided to eat at penongs. And thats when the fun started.
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