Apple claims that Safari 5.0 is faster than Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox. Safari 5.0 for Mac is powered with Nitro JavaScript engine that makes JavaScript run 30 percent faster than Safari 4 browser. Safari 5.0 is boasted to be twice as fast as Firefox and three percent faster than Google Chrome 5. Apple uses the Domain Name System prefetching of previously viewed web pages to make them load faster.

The new Safari 5 supports dozens of new web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, also allowing developers to create rich-media experiences. Safari also brings full screen play back and closed captions for HTML5 Video, HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 forms validation, and several other features.

Apple has also introduced new free Safari Developer Program under which developers can build extensions using standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for enhancing the Safari 5 web browser. New Extension builder in Safari 5 works like a sandbox for the extensions that get digitally signed Apple certificate and runs only from web browser.

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Available for Windows and Mac, Safari 5 includes several new features and performance enhancements, the biggest of which has been announced but not activated. The new Safari Developer Program marks the advent of digitally signed add-ons for Safari.

The new Reader feature in Safari streamlines both single and multi-page stories into a more legible format.

Currently, only Safari for Mac supports add-ons, but the implication from the Safari Web site is that the new extension format will be cross-platform because they will be built on HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Apple is clearly trying to get some of their newly re-christened iOS mojo to rub off on the desktop Safari since the new add-ons will be “sandboxed, signed with a digital certificate from Apple and run solely in the browser,” according to the pulled Safari 5 press release.

Given the language used to describe the program and Apple’s controlled iOS marketplace, the Safari Extensions so far sounds like an attempt to extend the iOS’s philosophy to the browser, although it could wind up being nothing more than the Safari version of Mozilla add-ons site.

Safari 5 also includes Safari Reader for streamlining articles, a new add-on network, dramatic performance improvements, and support for Bing search. Safari Reader is designed to streamline the browser to maximize reading space when viewing single and multipage articles. A new Reader icon in the location bar will toggle the feature, and there are mouse-over options to enlarge the story, print it, or share it via e-mail.

HTML5 support in the new version of Safari doesn’t do any major trailblazing, although it does add significant support for the next generation of HTML code. Safari now supports HTML5-based full-screen video playback, video closed captioning, geolocation, drag and drop, forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, EventSource, and WebSocket. Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera all support these features either in their stable releases or in generally functional development versions, leaving Internet Explorer with support only in IE 9′s stripped-down pre-alpha builds.

Apple is claiming major improvements to Safari’s JavaScript engine Nitro, with the version in Safari 5 running 30 percent faster than Safari 4. Apple says it also benchmarked Safari 5 to be twice as fast as Firefox 3.6, and 3 percent faster than Chrome 5.0. Safari 5 also loads Web pages faster by using DNS prefetching.

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TAIPEI, Taiwan – April 12, 2010 – Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly announced their full range of Intel chipset-based X58, P55, H55, H57 as well as current and upcoming AMD 800 chipset series motherboards all allow charging of Apple’s latest hot selling iPad while the device is in use (on) and also when not in use (off). Smart Technologies (BD) Ltd., sole distributor of Gigabyte motherboard and graphics cards in Bangladesh market.

Recent industry and news reports indicate that USB ports on most Windows PCs are unable to provide enough power to charge the new iPad while the device is in operation due to differences between motherboard USB power output and the device’s charging specifications. However, GIGABYTE’s unique USB power design is able to deliver extra power for devices that require more than the 500mA delivered from a traditional USB port. With a simple On/Off Charge driver update which can be found on the GIGABYTE website, Gigabyte motherboard users are able to take full advantage of USB charging of their iPad, giving them more options and convenience when recharging their new device.

To download the Gigabyte On/Off Charge driver, please visit the Gigabyte website:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Utility_List.aspx

Below describe, Gigabyte motherboards whose supporting iPad charge and also more model will be announce very soon

Support Intel X58 Chipset: GA-X58A-UD7; GA-EX58-EXTREME; GA-X58A-UD5; GA-EX58-UD5; GA-EX58-UD4P; GA-EX58-UD4; GA-X58A-UD3R; GA-EX58-UD3R; GA-EX58-DS4

Intel P55 Chipset: GA-P55A-UD7; GA-P55A-UD6; GA-P55-UD6-C; GA-P55-UD6; GA-P55A-UD5; GA-P55-UD5; GA-P55A-UD4P; GA-P55A-UD4; GA-P55-UD4P; GA-P55-UD4; GA-P55M-UD4; GA-P55A-UD3P; GA-P55A-UD3R; GA-P55-UD3P; GA-P55A-UD3; GA-P55-UD3R; GA-P55-UD3L-TPM; GA-P55-UD3; GA-P55-UD3L; GA-P55-US3L; GA-P55M-UD2; GA-P55-USB3; GA-P55-USB3L

Intel H57 Chipset: GA-H57M-USB3

Intel H55 Chipset: GA-H55-UD3H; GA-H55M-UD2H; GA-H55M-S2H; GA-H55-USB3; GA-H55M-USB3

AMD 800 Chipset: GA-890GPA-UD3H; GA-890XA-UD3

Gigabyte’s product manager, Khaza Md. Anas Khan, phone:  01730-317768

Apple has announced its WorldScript technology. The introduction of WorldScript will transform the Mac into the first international PC through worldwide language support.

The new technology includes support for text input and display, as well as for incorporating language attributes, such as date and time formats, for most written languages.

With WorldScript, Apple provides built-in support to handle the complexities of non-Roman languages. This includes system-level support of two-byte languages such as Japanese, Chinese and Korean, and one-byte languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

Integrating this enabling technology into System 7 allows the Mac to be quickly localized for any language. Integration of language will enable third party software developers to develop and localize applications for markets throughout the world.

Power (Performance optimization with enhanced RISC) PC is the hardware component of IBM and Apple’s plan for network operability between OS/2, IBM AIX and the Apple Macintosh. PowerPC is anticipated to create a profound transformation in the way PC are used. Initial use of PowerPC-based systems is expected to be in embedded control for automotive and consumer products use, portable and desktop computers high-end fault tolerant systems, and supercomputers.

Motorola will aid in designing, manufacturing and marketing the technology, which will be available to other manufacturers besides IBM and Apple. The three companies have decided to base PowerPC on the IBM architecture because of its capabilities and the size of the installed base.

The architecture specification have been completed, development of microprocessor has already started and the first systems are expected to be available next year. It seems the day is not far off when the same program can be run on different brands of computers easily.

IBM and Apple Computer Inc’s first PowerPC-based system will be priced under US$2,000 to compete with 386SX machines, officials from both companies and Motorola Inc revealed.

The system, a low-end desktop expected as soon as early 1993, will offer about 20 SPECmarks in performance, said officials from the three com-paines, speaking at the fourth annual Microprocessor Forum here.

“We expect the first products to compete with the 386SX-lcvcl products — offering those price points but much better performance,” said Eric Harslcm, vice-president of Apple’s desktop product division.

The current road map calls for the PowerPC—a single-chip implementation of IBM’s RS/6000 CPU— to be ready “in the second half of 1992,” said Lcs Crudele, general manager of Motorola’s RISC microprocessor division, which is working on the chips with IBM.

By 1993, PowerPCs will be available for portable and “mainstream” PCs, Crudclc said. These chips will offer performance of about 20 and 70 SPECmarks, respectively. In 1994, PowerPCs will be available for high-end workstaions and servers, offering up to 200 SPECmarks of performance.

By comparison, Sun Microsystems Inc’s $15,495 40MFL SPARCslation 2 processes 24.7 SPECmarks.

In addition to unveiling details of the PowerPC, Phil Hester, vice-president of IBM’s Advanced Workstaion Division, said the group is considering Porting its PowcrOpcn environment to the Intel platform. Hester also said the group next year will build a reference design to enable other firms to design PowerPC-based systems.

“This is not a three-person club,” he said. “We fully expect to have other manufacturers participating by early next year.”

Forum attendees were surprised at the level of redesign that the group is planning. “It’s clear that PowerPC is designed to do more than just fill out IBM’s current RS/6000 line — it’s a whole new platform,” said George White, president of Corollary Inc, a multiprocessing design firm.

Other announcements at the Microprocessor Forum included the following:

* Officials from Texas Instruments Inc confirmed thai the firm’s “Viking” Super -SPARC processor has been delivered to Sun. The new chip will deliver ” up to three times the perform anccof SPARCstation 2,” they said.

*   Motorola unveiled its new 88110 Symmetric  Superscalar  RISC  chip  for workstations and high-end peripherals. It supports 3-D color graphics and two levels of cache.

*   Advanced Micro Devices Inc announced the 29200, a single-chip processor for laser printers designed to compete with Intel Corp’s i960 processor. It processes 7 mips. Samples arc due in the first quarter, said officials. ?             . Vancc McCarthy

* System 7.0, the Macintosh operating system from Apple Computer. Also from Apple was the Quick Time 1.0 movie file format for multimedia.

* Another operating system winning the lop award was Digital Research’s DR DOS 6.0.

*   Fox Pro from Fox Software took an award for being the top-quality database.

* The PCMCIA 2.0 IC card standard that may replace floppy cards as a common way to store data and programs.

* Microsoft did not win for MS-DOS 5.0 but did garner top awards for Excel 3.0 and Visual BASIC.

*   Cayman   Systems’   GatorBox   CS Macintosh and Unix network system got a top network award, as did Novell’s NetWare 3.11.

There were several other top awards, and a number of other products were also cited in other categories.