IE9 ThunderBolt pre-sales and New video start-up for Google

ThunderBolt pre-sales was able to break Wirefly online order record and 2.35 million IE9 downloads were recorded within the first 24 hours. Internet giant Google has acquired video start up Green Parrot Pictures to help improve the quality of videos loaded onto YouTube.


Online retailer Wirefly said Wednesday its first day of pre-sales of the HTC ThunderBolt smartphone were 400% higher than any other cell phone pre-sale in the company's eight-year history. [Computerworld] The HTC ThunderBolt smartphone will run on Verizon's faster LTE network. Wirefly pre-sale for $199.99, which is the lowest comparing to bestbuy.

Google acquires video start-up

Internet giant Google has acquired video start up Green Parrot Pictures to help improve the quality of videos loaded onto YouTube.
In a blog post, the company said it will be using the team within the company to improve not only every day videos, but also videos from significant events such as the recent protests in Libya and Egypt.

IE9 Downloaded 2.35 Million Times in First 24 hours

Microsoft's new Web browser, Internet Explorer 9, was downloaded over 2 million times since its release on Monday evening, according to a blog post on the Exploring IE Blog. You need to have Windows 7 or Windows Vista to install IE9. Here is the download link for IE9.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta looks Great

What is best Internet browser? What is the most fastest and secure browser? Some of the questions and arguments going around. I am not going to talk about browser war. This is all about the Internet Explorer 9 Beta. Has Microsoft has done a pretty good job this time? Lets find it out.

Download and Installing IE 9 Beta

It was a pretty smooth and fast installation and required to restart the computer as usual. Download and Installation took less than 5 minutes. IE9 is only supporting later version of Windows (Windows 7 and Windows Vista). It dose not support Windows XP. I think it is a good move as Microsoft badly need to move forward with Windows 7.

First Time
It was a pretty quick start and gave options to disable the plugins and add-ons to make it load faster.

IE9 Looks and feel

IE9 looks pretty similar to Google Chrome. Simplified interface provide the maximum space for the website. Compact search and URL to one box with Security view Compatibility view reload page and stop loading buttons. You can customize the search to your favorite search engine. Unlocking the toolbar will give you a option to resize the address bar.

IE 9 Tab Hacks
IE9 given the maximum functionality to its tabs. You can arrange the tabs as you want and you can drag a tab out side, so it will open as new window ( Just like in Google Chrome). Double click on the tool bar will open a new tab for you.

Memory usage

Without any add-ons and plugins memory usage is pretty low comparing to Google Chrome and FireFox. However, it totally depend on the open website and number of tabs. I tried my best of control these factors by opening the same webpage and number of tabs.

Overall Microsoft has done a good job in IE9 in terms of Loading time and look and feel of the web browser and user friendliness. Security level of IE9 is yet to be revealed.



If you are interested and running Windows Vista or 7 download IE 9 and give it a try.