Computers, Internet and mobile phones those are an indispensable part of our modern lives. We are so dependent on the technology that even the slightest tech problems can cause damage on economics, transport, even life.

The last decade has been pretty intense technically. More than two billion people are using the Internet compared to the 400 million ten years ago. The cellphone subscriptions have also risen to 5 billion five times more compared to the 1 billion subscriptions in year 2000, according to the International Telecommunication Union.

Five billion subscriptions do not actually mean five billion users, but I think its safe to say that nearly half of the planet uses mobile phones. On the other hand, 2.08 billion people use the Internet 940 million of those have mobile broadband subscription, while 555 million have a fixed one.

The worlds population is on the verge of reaching 7 billion. The tech invasion is nowhere near its end and it will not stop until every single person on the Earth is connected in some way.

Today Mozilla announced the availability of a new version of the mobile Firefox. Compatible with Android and Maemo the new version of the app is still in beta but promises to improve start-up and page load times as well as responsiveness to panning and zooming.

Mozilla says that it has listened to its users feedback so far and has put it to good use in this new release. Internal tests have found the new beta to be three times faster than the stock Android browser at the Kraken benchmark, twice as fast on SunSpider and slightly faster on the V8 benchmark.

Additionally, start-up time and page load time should see a notable improvement. Stability is also said to be taken a step further, while the memory usage has been reduced.

The number of compatible plug-ins also continues to grow and now exceeds 100, including Firefox sync, which allows you to share browsing history, bookmarks, tabs, passwords and form-fill data between your desktop and mobile browsers.

There is been plenty of talk about Adreno 205 and its performance improvement over Adreno 200 which is found in common phones such as Nexus One, Droid Incredible, Evo, etc. Adreno 205 is used by the likes of HTC G2, Desire Z, myTouch HD and Desire HD.

The theoretical fill rate of Adreno 205 is rated at about 50% of SGX540. Does this translate into real numbers? AndroidandMe has gone ahead and compared the two GPU head to head using 3DMark Mobile benchmark application using Nexus One running Froyo, Galaxy S using Android 2.1, and finally G2 using Froyo.

In this test, G2 has beaten Galaxy S in pixel shader and geometry tests

Again, G2 came ahead of Galaxy S

Finally, Galaxy S came ahead of G2.

The source speculates that may be, 2.1 in Galaxy S is crippling the results for Galaxy S. IMO, that is not the case. Froyo JIT helps out CPU operations but these tests are designed to stress the GPU.

Rovio obviously has got another update for the insanely popular Angry Birds game. The Angry Birds: Seasons expansion will be getting another episode, this time dedicated to Valentine day. The developers didn’t share much about it, but only posted a few teaser images on game Facebook account.

There are no new birds teased so I assume we will just be getting some new specially-themed levels and probably new obstacles.

When Rovio shipped the Christmas edition they came up with that really cool idea of making the whole thing an advent calendar and opening one level each day. I’m wondering if they will come up with another similarly clever idea this time.

Platform availability has not been specified either, but iOS and Android seem certain. We will have to wait and see if webOS and Symbian^3 will be on the winners list this time.

Google have been releasing some data on mobile advertising, with some surprising results.

The data comes from AdMob, a Google acquisition from last year, and which Google revealed serves 2 billion ad requests per day. Now where this gets interesting is where these ad requests are coming from. Take Western Europe, for example; despite being one of the most advanced and developed smartphone markets on Earth it is responsible for just 15% of these ad requests. North America, another developed market. however, is requesting some 43% of those ads. Asia isn't too far behind with 33% of requests.

The rest of the world barely egisters, scraping just 2-3% for places like Latin America or Africa. In Western Europe the UK is leading the pack with 33% of ad requests for the region. The top 10 countries in Western Europe all saw ad growth of more than 400% in 2010. In Asia South Korea requests 13% and Japan 12%. Both South Korea and Japan, and China, have seen growth rates for advertising in excess of 1000% during 2010.

The really interesting part is why there is such bias towards North America in the results. With income levels and smartphone usage prevalent throughout both North America and Western Europe one would imagine the share to be a bit closer. Either way with growth rates showing as high as they do it looks like the disparity might become a good bit smaller when the next set of results come out.