The next version of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser promises to present better memory management and important speed enhancements.

Confirming the release of the beta version of the next version of the browser, Firefox engineer Nicholas Nethercote wrote in a blog post that Firefox 15 would prevent most memory leaks that have so far been causing by add-ons, including Firebug.

Nethercote added that the newest version would considerably slash the browser's memory consumption, without any need to upgrade to add-ons.

One year after its first report, following complaints of less-than-speedy broadband service than advertised by the Internet service providers (ISPs), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently released its second report on the ‘advertised vs. actual broadband speeds’ situation.

Samsung Series 9 NP900X3C-A01 portable ultrabook has several striking features that allow it to standout in the crowd of rival machines.

The 13-inch Samsung Series 9 ultabook is incredibly light & thin. It weighs just 2.6 pounds, and is slightly thinner at its thinnest point than the new 13-inch Air Acer, Aspire S5, and Dell XPS 13.

A young Russian man has been arrested by Cyprus authorities for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Amazon. com, the U. S. Attorney's office has confirmed.

Authorities in Cyprus arrested 25-year-old Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha on an international warrant on Wednesday this weak.

Zubakha has been charged with allegations that he had launched two botnet-driven distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the world's most popular online retailer in June 2008.

Some versions of the 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet are already in the mail and others will soon be on the way to customers, Google confirmed in an e-mail to customers.

The Internet search giant also claimed that the Nexus 7 is enjoying incredible demand, and the company is shipping the device as soon as possible.

In the e-mail to customers Google said, “We’ve had incredible demand for the new tablet and are shipping them as quickly as possible.”

Popular video-sharing site YouTube has announced a new tool that allows users to blur faces in videos they upload to the website.

YouTube announced the one-click face-blurring tool in a blog, and said that the tool was introduced to give anonymity to users who might fear act of vengeance by public viewers.

After uploading a video onto YouTube, you will see Video Enhancements tool that will lead you to "Additional features," where you can click "Blur All Faces." Clicking on "Delete original video" will trash the original copy of the video with exposed faces.

A U. S. judge on Wednesday said that Late Steve Jobs' comments about Google Android operating system should not influence upcoming Apple-Samsung trial.

Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple and South Korea-based Samsung have long been suing and countersuing each other in several countries, accusing each other of patent violations as both are vying for supremacy in the lucrative market for mobile devices.

Speaking about an earlier-this-month assault in a McDonald's restaurant in Paris, digital glasses pioneer and Toronto University professor Steve Mann recently revealed that the restaurant's staff assaulted and kicked him out for wearing his home-developed `EyeTap Digital Glass.'

Mann, who has been experimenting with different kinds of head-based computer vision systems for the last three decades, said that the Paris McDonald's employees objected to his headset and its capability to record the pictures and videos of his experiences.

Due to errors conducted during child births, in Scotland in about 2.5 years clinical negligence compensation totalling more than £70 million has been awarded.

A freedom of information request revealed that NHS Health Scotland closed 30 cases between January 2009 and June last year, which cost it nearly £70.5 million in damages and almost £3 million in legal costs.

According to Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw, front line services will be affected by such costs.

According to a Scottish government spokeswoman, all negligence claims have taught vital lessons.

Google Inc.'s video-sharing site YouTube has become a major platform for news as more and more Internet users are turning to the site to access news, a study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism revealed.

After studying the most popular news videos on YouTube for around 15 months, researchers found that a growing percentage of videos being posted and viewed on Youtube are serious news.