Starting today, Thursday (2/4/2010), Symbian that is widely used in the smartphone device made its debut as an open source platform. Symbian Foundation was officially released open source package for kernel packages Services & Hardware Symbian platform that is free download at their site.
“Kernel & Hardware Package Services is a foundation while the rest of the platform is being developed,” that is the introduction on the Wiki page for Symbian developers. With the release of the Symbian open source package that is officially starting today Symbian is used and modified freely without charge.
Symbian is still the dominant platform in the global handset market and is used by a lot of smartphone vendors. However, major challenges with the entry of major competitors like RIM, Apple, and Google. Last year, Nokia took over all shares of Symbian and decided to make it as open source platform to facilitate the support of content developers.
However, in transition, the new Symbian Foundation provides most of the open source platform with royalty-free license only for members with a license called the Symbian Foundation License (SFL). Source code is open to the public with a license EPL (Eclipse Public License) begins with the kernel and is scheduled to be opened completely in mid-2010.
After providing Intel Core processor 2010 to the consumer market with the Intel Core I3, I5, and i7, Intel launch the Intel Core vPro 2010 processor. Intel’s latest products is specifically oriented for the businessman and small medium businesses that are equipped with more sophisticated safety features and business management.
Intel Core vPro 2010 processor has many advantages, e.g it can run the business productivity applications more quickly to 80 percent and can multiple application run more faster. With Intel vPro Core 2010 processor, the data that absorbed into the PC can be encrypted three times faster than the servers that existed previously.
Interestingly, Intel’s new Core vPro has integration features for keyboard-video-mouse that can protect users from theft of confidential data and assets up to 3.5 times faster. Intel Core vPro 2010 is also equipped with Intel Turbo Boost feature that can automatically adjust the speed of the processor’s workload became faster. For example when the user is doing multi-tasking or watching videos.
Instead, Intel Turbo Boost can also efficiently use energy when the user is resting and the computer was running background applications. In other words, Intel Core vPro 2010 is very suitable to be used by business people and entrepreneurs because it can improve cost efficiency in business activities.
Google announce to stop support for Internet Explorer 6 or IE6 and other old web browser. Starting March 1, 2010, Google site and some services are no longer able to displayed with these browsers.
“Many other companies have stopped supporting the older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0, including a browser that is not supported by the manufacturer company. We also begin to abandon our support, starting from the Google Docs and Google Sites,” said Rajen Sheth, Google Apps Senior Product Manager in the Google enterprise blog.
Previously, Ars Technica site release, since August 2009, Google said it would end support for IE6 YouTube service and social network, Orkut. When IE6 users visited these services, they will be warned to immediately switch to the latest browser, such as IE8, Chrome, and Firefox.
Sheth says that web technology has grown rapidly in the last ten years from the text based to interactive applications and rich with video and sound. Browsers that are too old can not run the new features. This year there would be a breakthrough in Google applications and services and they wants to ensure that all Internet users to be able to enjoy it.
“So, take advantage of the opportunity to switch to the latest available browser,” he said. Some of the recommended browsers include a minimum of Google Internet Explorer 7.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Google Chrome 4.0 and Safari 3.0.
Previously, Microsoft itself admits that IE6 is not feasible and many shortcomings that urged users to immediately switch to a newer version. the last time Microsoft released a patch to the gap in IE6 weaknesses suspected to be the door for hackers to attack the infrastructure of Google and dozens of large companies in other U.S.. However, Microsoft still provide support for IE6 patch until 8 April 2014.
So, Do you are still want to use IE6 any longer?
Google always presents something new for their users. When visiting voicemail on Google Voice, now you will feel faster access than before. So you do not have to wait a long time and this will certainly save you time.
This Faster access is a result of improvements that have been done by Google for the voicemail application recently. Of course this will increase your voicemail access using the Google Voice over this.
What makes these applications much faster access than usual because whenever you want to listen and to open an existing voicemail, the system will copy the voicemail so you do not have to listen one by one from the existing voicemail. Then the system will immediately send a notification via email and SMS notification so you’ll know when you get new messages. Even the system allows you to listen to voice messages to know how long the existing content of the message.
To create a voice message now becomes much easier, there are 2 changes in the way you listen to voice messages through your phone device. The first change is the user of Google Voice dialing his own, and users began to play back voice messages directly without the need to dial a 1 first. The second change is Google now going to play the voice message at the last (new) left a voice message in advance than the first voice message (old). Of course, with this change, Google Voice will look more powerful and enjoyable than ever.
Mozilla Foundation finally released the latest browser, Firefox 3.6, web browser software that claimed to be the “World’s Fastest Browser”. In Mozilla website home page is written “World’s Best Browser”. What are the changes made in the browser compared to its predecessor, so Mozilla pls say so?
“Mozilla has improved its overall performance and accelerate time to run it,” said Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, as reported by Computerworld, Thursday (21/1/2010).
He said, to open a web page can now be done 20 percent faster. JavaScript on this 3.6 version is also executed 12 percent faster than with the version of Firefox 3.5.
Firefox also includes new security features that will check the plug-in in browsers such as Adobe Flash Player or Apple Quick Time so it is always been updated. Plug-ins are suspicious will not be executed, and only to be told how to do updates if desired.
In addition, this new browser also features Personas feature that lets users choose the background theme of the browser in accordance with the preferred design of an estimated 30,000 are available. Firefox 3.6 also supports the latest web technologies such as CSS, DOM, and HTML5, including fullscreen video and web for open font format (WOFF).
“Firefox offers users to manage their own experience, this is the most customizable browser and the browser is also very fast. So, overall, I think Firefox is the best complete package,” added Beltzner.
This browser is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac and can be downloaded on the Mozilla website. Firefox users can immediately upgrade to new version by doing a “check for updates” in the menu “help”.
Apple Inc. intends to change the search engine for the iPhone. Currently, Apple is in serious talks with Microsoft Corp. to replace Google with Microsoft Bing. According to Bloomberg’s anonymous sources who know this problem, this discussion will reflect the competition between Apple and Google. Google plans to launch own mobile phone this month by offering a mobile operating system named Android.
“So far, the deal probably will threaten Google, but it would be better for Apple,” said James McQuivey, a researcher Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge. Apple could benefit more from working with Google than Microsoft. Because, according to sources, Microsoft might be willing to many more revenue with Apple. From search engines, Google and Microsoft both have income from ads placed alongside search results.
If the deal is successful, Microsoft had a chance to enlarge its search engine market share. According to Nielsen Co. research, of all mobile phone users who use this search engine, is 86 percent of Google users. The new Bing users reached 11 percent.
Only, so far there has been no information from the company. Frank Shaw as well spokeswoman, Katie Cotton as well as a spokesman for Apple declined to comment on. Similarly, a Google spokesman, he declined to comment about this issue.
Provide navigation maps for free now become a strategy to boost sales of the Nokia cell phone back on the market. Nokia announced the availability of Ovi Maps for free download on the Nokia site.
“This step has the potential to double to twice the market share of mobile navigation devices,” the official Nokia statement, released Thursday (21/1/2010). Nokia said research Canalys estimates in 2009 there were 27 million users and the availability of GPS devices Ovi Maps can increase the number of users to 50 million people.
So far there are 10 types of new Nokia handsets that can enjoy this navigation application that Siemens X6, Nokia N97 mini, E72, E55, E52, Nokia 6730 classic, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, and Nokia 5230. However, forward this application basically works on any Nokia phones with Symbian S60 operating system and will be bundled in Nokia products were released GPS began in March 2010.
Nokia to develop maps and navigation services on mobile phones since the U.S. company acquisitions, Navteq since 3 years ago. Before the free, consumers must pay to enjoy a premium navigation services such as road guides. However, now it’s all free and even 6000 plus 3D landmarks in the form and start later in March to access data from the travel guide Lonely Planet and Michelin.
“Ovi Maps new version also includes navigational features for luxury cars and pedestrians, including a navigation guide for the turn the corner,” continued the statement Nokia.
You are looking for free tools to perform the optimization for all the search engine like Google, Yahoo and Bing? This time Microsoft comes to free SEO Toolkit application which is designed specifically for webmasters and web admin to adapt directly with Bing, Google and Yahoo. This course will help the website being developed to be performed in the search engine can easily be accessed by Internet users world.
A few days ago, Microsoft also released the latest update to Windows Server Technical Evangelism. This time they put forward the application IIS SEO Toolkit.
“Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server (IIS 7.5) which was built with a fully modular architecture has a sophisticated API. This allows developers to easily add, delete and even replace IIS components are already built-in that had been adapted to the various sites websites. Currently more easily combine the code into the core IIS and using ways not previously possible, “Pennington said.
The promise from Microsoft is that the SEO Toolkit is designed to help webmasters to improve the work flow of traffic and virtual worlds extra income, influence and update the search engines and improve the customer experience. One-one solution to the lack of search engine optimization is the fact that this tool is only designed to work with web sites that use Windows Server and IIS servers. In this case, IIS SEO Toolkit is actually an extension IIS and therefore this tool will not be able to run on Linux web server and Apache.
“SEO is a free toolkit to help you improve the flow of traffic and visitors to your site, and as a result can increase your income directly or indirectly through your website,” said Scott Guthrie, vice president of Microsoft.
Twitter and Facebook are the toughest competitors in the world of social networking. Both are now attracting a lot of Internet users in the world. From the young to the old does not want to lose in trying the service. You are one of them?
Twitter is now reportedly preparing to release a new tool that allows websites to be able to party as easily integrated with Twitter website and services. In short, this new feature seems to be answering the popularity of Facebook Connect that were already there.
Facebook Connect Facebook itself has raised since May 2008. At the same time, the Google and MySpace also announced that is working on similar projects at the same time.
Facebook Connect itself finally been put to use in the year 2008 as well. At least now there are 80,000 websites that have been integrated with Facebook Connect and Facebook 60 million users already use this feature. For many of these third-party websites, this feature is very helpful for users who want to register or log on their website.
Facebook Connect is very attractive for many small sites, although this feature is very easy to implement. By using it, they can create some widgets that bring direct Facebook features can be enjoyed by a third-party website with very easy integration.
Last year, Twitter has launched a button which allows users of third-party website to website Twitter login and identify themselves, as in the system for comment.
Twitter This new product will be able to authenticate the user, retrieve data and then displays them on Twitter. There is now a special API for this feature which seems to be rather like Facebook Connect.
Apparently between Facebook and Twitter even be competitors but would continue to complement each other and mutual hanky-dig to become the number one in his class.
Microsoft Corp. plans to unveil a new operating system for mobile phones next month. The Company may use the celebration Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to show a new software called Windows Mobile 7. “However, this decision was not final,” said the anonymous source who knows the problem.
Microsoft relies on the latest software to bring back the spirit of the consumer Windows Mobile and mobile phone manufacturers who have adopted this system. Understandably, according to Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Kirkland, Windows Mobile 6.5, which came out in October, not enough to satisfy the software developer.
As a result, the faster they are showing Windows Mobile 7, the better, “he said. Conversely, the longer the delay the launch of Microsoft’s operating system, may be, the less consumers Microsoft for handset makers will glance at other options.
Unfortunately, Debbie Anderson, a spokesman for Redmond, Microsoft’s base in Washington, did not want to say this launch time. “There are no new thing to be announced,” he said. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp.. years ago said that the new program will come out in 2010.