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A while back, Nokia Beta Labs released the Ovi Browser beta – a Java-based web browser for S40 phones that walked and quacked like Opera Mini 4.2. Users of the beta seem to have provided good feedback, because now Beta Labs announced an update for the app with new features and fixes. It’s one odd update though. Like Opera Mini, the Ovi Browser uses a dedicated server that compresses the page before sending it to the phone. And that’s where all the updates happened – on the server, you don’t need to update the app to get the updated experience.

Here’s what they changed:

• Improved rendering quality
• Performance improvements
• Added support for 4 new devices – Nokia 7310, X2, 5300, 6280, 3710
• Two new regional start pages for India and Indonesia
• Improved Vietnamese character issues

I wonder how they added support for new phones without updating the app. Anyway, the update I was looking for – support for tabs – isn’t here. Other things like find on page and saving pages aren’t in the update either.Nokia typically pre-installs Opera Mini on most of their S40 phones (on some phones it’s even the default browser). Ovi Browser will probably take over that duty when it comes out of beta. But it still has a lot of catching up to do if it will compete with Opera Mini 5. You can get Ovi Browser by going to browser.ovi.com on your phone or from here.

By Gsm Arena

At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, Microsoft has announced, a little earlier than scheduled, the release of the first beta version of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. It’s available in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish and updates both Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, which are both based on the same kernel.

Service Pack 1 will include all patches previously released via Windows Update and several additional hot-fixes. There is no new functionality for Windows 7, although interaction between Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 sees the addition of features including RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. Further details about those features can be found on the Microsoft server division blog.

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If you don’t know the names yongzh and ZodTTD, you can certainly be forgiven, but they’re basically the cell phone emulation dream team — where the former has been cranking out high-quality Nintendo and Sega emulators for Android, the latter is the one who brought PSX to iPhone, iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre. Today, we hear they’re collaborating on a PSX emulator for Android that’s running faster than the 3GS version — before Froyo’s even factored into the equation — and that when his domination over the PSX is complete, ZodTTD intends to begin work on an Nintendo 64 emulator for Android, and then VLC. Without letting our enthusiasm get the better of us, let’s just say it’s an exciting time to be an Android owner, to say the least.

By Engadget

Source : Digital Disbeliever, ZodTTD (Twitter)

TAIPEI (AFP) – Google said Wednesday it is planning to release its Chrome operating system, seen as a rival to Microsoft’s Windows system, for free in the autumn.

“We are working on bringing the device later this fall,” said Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai at CompuTex Taipei, Asia’s biggest IT trade show.

“It’s something which we are very excited by … We expect it to reach millions of users on day one,” he said.

The open source operating system is based on the Chrome browser, which is designed to work exclusively with web applications.

More than 70 million people use the Chrome browser, according to Google.

However, the jury is still out on Google’s ability to challenge Microsoft, analysts said, pointing out that it remains to be seen if hardware manufacturers will launch Chrome-based products.

By Yahoo News !

In our most recent beta release, we fired up all engines to bring to life our fastest version of Chrome to date.

Today, we’re bringing all this beta goodness to the stable channel so that it’s available to all Chrome users. We’re particularly excited to bring Chrome for Mac and Linux out of beta, and introduce Chrome’s first stable release for Mac and Linux users. You can read more about the Mac and Linux stable releases on the Google Mac and Chromium blogs respectively.

Today’s stable release also comes with a host of new features. You’ll be able to synchronize not only bookmarks across multiple computers, but also browser preferences — including themes, homepage and startup settings, web content settings, preferred languages, and even page zoom settings. Meanwhile, for avid extensions users, you can enable each extension to work in incognito mode through the extensions manager.

Our stable release also incorporates HTML5 features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop. For a taste of HTML5’s powerful features, try browsing through websites developed in HTML5 such as scribd.com, dragging and dropping attachments in Gmail, or by enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps. We’ve also given Chrome’s bookmark manager a facelift with HTML5:

In recent weeks, we’ve been beta-testing Adobe Flash Player integration into Chrome. While Flash Player integration in the browser is not included by default in today’s stable release, we’re excited to enable this feature with the full release of Flash Player (version 10.1) soon.

If you’re already using Chrome for Windows, Mac or Linux, you’ll be auto-updated to this latest release soon. You can also try out these new features on our speedy browser now, by downloading Chrome from google.com/chrome.

By Google

In our experience, about the only thing Google Goggles is good for is telling you that your can of Coke looks like someone’s face, but the company’s just-released version 1.1 sounds like it might be on a whole new level of awesomeness. Basically, Goggles can now recognize text within the “region of interest” that you specify on the screen then give you the option to translate it to any language of your choosing. Between this and Google’s already quite good Translate app, Android devices are getting dangerously close to letting monoglots (thanks for the great word, Google) travel safely and effectively in foreign lands. Other improvements in Goggles 1.1 include better barcode and image recognition (thank goodness), an improved UI, and the ability to initiate identification from your gallery, so it sounds like a must-download if you’ve got a phone running Android 1.6 or better. It’s available now.

By Engadget/Google

With Apple products gaining more popularity, some hardcores are still in the dark believing that Apple software is much safer than the programs being run on a Microsoft based system. To add to the fact that Mac are more vulnerable that people think, ex-hacker, now security expert Marc Maiffret said that Apple systems haven’t really been in the spotlight due to their low market share, thus causing trojan and virus programmers to attack the PC because of its popularity.

He also added that with the Mac’s consumer market share growing, Apple has only begun to realize how serious the pending threats could have on their systems and are now working on trying to make their systems more secure rather than laying back and living on the hopes and dreams that no one would attack their systems.

Even though it will still be a while  before the Mac becomes a target of big interest, users need to step into the light and realize that they are not 100% safe as they would think they are.

BY Blog Technical !