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Firefox 3, Only 5 Days To Go.

Finally! The painful waiting time is going to over in few days because Firefox team has recently announced the release of their next generation browser. The net-world had been keeping an eye on it from almost 3 years and they are so much curious and eager to use Firefox 3. By noticing this, The guys at SpreadFirefox Started a pledging system by which those who have pledged are being informed by e-mail about the releasing date.More than one million netizens (Including me :D) have pledged till now. They declared June 17 as the Download day and trying their best to make it to the Guinness world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Lets see if they can achieve their target or not. You might also consider helping them achieve this goal by:

Either

• Remember the download day (June 17)

Or

• Visit their website and pledge now!

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Cool Chinese Tech-Cool G108 Watch Phone

China, a symbol of copying the originals, now has come up with its own. An attractive one when it comes to features and compactness, the round shaped watch phone comes in a clamshell design, as a watch when closed and a phone when opened. Opening it we have a Motorola RAZR style beautifully illuminated keypad with the ‘mouse pad’ in the center and numerical buttons go along the circumference. The screen we have is the 1.5″ LCD with the 256K of color display and 128 X 60 pixel resolution. Featured heavily in its small body of 51 X 51 X 20 mm(compared to mobile phones having that much features) and weghing only 65 grams, the watch phone incudes a camera of 1.3 MP, a speakerphone, a media player, built-in 0.5 MB memory and a slot for a removable memory, support for quad-band GSM and GPRS, USB connectivity and of course, SMS/MMS.

No word yet for pricing but I am sure keeping in mind the low pricing of Chinese products, it will be very much affordable for the masses.

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Nokia Aims To Kill iPhone With It’s “iPhone Killer”

Presented in the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference, held in California, this handset is based on Symbian S60 platform. Told as Nokia’s first touchscreen handset, codenamed ‘Tube’, the big one from Nokia expected to be released end this year, because there going also some high-ends to be released then and a healthy competition is likely to be created. Although Tube appears almost as an iPhone copy, with the only noticable exception of Nokia’s logo, iPhone has readily been challenged by Nokia, hence called the Tube iPhone Killer. It will be interesting to see an iPhone copy going to ‘kill’ iPhone.
Nokia seems quiet an aggressive guy in a mood to outclass the another guy iPhone who has been quiet successful so far but a ‘not-giant’ in the world of handsets which is dominated very much by the former. And because of this there are received some strict signals from Nokia.

Comparing the sales which iPhone had in the last six months with that of Nokia’s, in the very words of Forum Nokia’s vice president, Tom Libretto:

“We’ve done that since we’ve had dinner on Friday”.

Note that the sales magnitude of some days of Nokia included all of Nokia’s models while its iPhone alone the model on the other side which took almost half a year to come to the sales point equalling the former. Such an ‘expert’ comparison, by a man of such designation? What could be said about it.
The Tube will have 3G connectivity and java support, features which the iPhone lacked. No words for the exact date of shipment and price yet.

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What Great Things Does The New Opera Mini 4.1 Beta Bring?

Opera is consistently on its way to top in the world of mobile browsers for which till now it has proved to be the best. Their Opera Mini 4.0 released back in November 2007 gained much attention, claiming for the Opera mini 4.1 browser’s increasing popularity (users estimated to be around 40 million). Now it’s time for upgrading to Opera Mini 4.1, which is in beta stage for the moment right now. Let’s come to the useful features which are included in this beta release and should be of interest to you.
1- 50% increase in speed than the previous release

Opera has upgraded it’s servers for providing faster browsing experience. Pages are first downloaded to the servers, there they compressed to around 90% and then send to the phones. Because your internet connection and the mobile phone type you are using have their impact on the speed, you can best experience the 50% more speed than Opera Mini 4.0 if you use the same connection and phone type with this new release as with Opera Mini 4.0.

2- Google Mobile search and URL Auto-Completion

The start page of the browser has the URL field to be typed in and search can be made for a word in the same URL field, the search system is powered by Google. A useful yet innovating feature in the mobile browsers is the Auto-Completion of the URL field. Suggestion of the web addresses are based on the web history and bookmarking.

3- Type a web address without going to the start page

The URL field can also be accessed without going to the start page by entering ‘Menu’ in the bottom left of the screen and then ‘Enter Address’. The URL field will appear on the top of the screen.

4- Search for a word in a web page

Go to ‘Menu’, ‘Tools’ and ‘Find In Page’. Type in the word you want to find on the web page you are at the moment.

5- Save web pages to view them offline later on

This feature shows it’s importance when you are having signal problems and encountering frequent disconnections, so that you can save web pages that you want in a short time when there is a connection, there maybe a reason other than that. The point here is that you are enabled to view web pages offline.

6- Upload and download files from Opera Mini 4.1 Beta

Users having phones supporting the JSR-75 specification, are enable to download and upload files from and to the web. Now you can upload your picture or other images to the social site you are a member of, attach a file with an e-mail, upload a short clip for online viewing, download an image, a clip, an audio file or a tone for your mobile, all right from your Opera Mini 4.1 Beta. Isn’t it a great browser to have on your mobile phone?

Honestly speaking, Opera has no match in mobile phone browsing. So, why wait, download it now!

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Yahoo Centers Its Sided Logo, Plan To Follow Google?

Yahoo modifies its homepage with the centering of its logo which was on the left side of the page previously. Some people may think of this stuff as not-so-deserving to be in the news as its just a logo relocating process but others may look at it as a business tactic to attract the surfers (as Google has done). Also, any unimportant stuff when associated with a giant, becomes one the popular news. Google’s very successful history is said to be the result of Google’s simple homepage with the logo in center, I think that Yahoo is trying to follow the Google footsteps by nearing Google in terms of logo. Is Yahoo going to simplify its homepage by taking next step towards ‘cleaning’ its homepage and further nearing Google? Also, Yahoo had its logo centered before the previous modification, Just Whatever the Sunnyvale giant’s people had planned for, either normal updating or Google following? The step is in the news and as such that it had appealed me to write this post.

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