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IE 9 Microsoft’s is all geared up  to release Internet Explorer 9, the new version of Internet Explorer browser to all and sundry  today. IE9 Beta is reported to be a beta that’s technically complete, so we shouldn’t have much to fear when the download is available later today. We are waiting to see how it will stand up to Firefox 4.0 which is also in beta. “Web browsing [...]

Twitter's new default image With the newly refurbished website Twitter has also redesigned its  default profile picture to a drawing of an egg, maybe it signifies  the – hatching of a new version of Twitter.com. Twitter had last changed its default avatar image last September, then it replaced the awfully terrible eyesore “the weird brown smiley face” with a wide variety of colored [...]

New Twitter Twitter has  unveiled  a new version of its web interface. Some users have already started getting  the new format, though Twitter says on its blog that it “will roll out as a preview over the next several weeks.”. The new look seems to follow the two-column style of  its iPad app, it is essentially a version of the sleek new Twitter iPad app but optimized for the web, with [...]

YouTube YouTube has started a two day trial of its new streaming platform, which enables broadcasters to stream live video directly into YouTube channels.   YouTube has brought in four content partners, namely Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood. YouTube says that live streaming is “a natural evolution to online video that adds an extra level of engagement”, but this [...]

Nokia C6 Nokia announced C6 and C7  running Symbian3 handsets at Nokia World event at London.  The Nokia C6-01 features an 8 megapixel camera and a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with all-new ClearBlack Display (CBD) technology  touted to deliver better outdoor visibility.  The 3.5-inch (also AMOLED) C7 gets more memory than its family mate and a stainless steel body. Both handsets can record pixel-heavy [...]

Source : www.developer.android.com Over 70% of Android based Mobile phones are now running Android Eclair 2.1 or Froyo 2.2 according to a  latest report on fragmentation of its Android platform released by Google. There has recently been a surge in the number of devices running Android 2.2, it’s now running on 28.7% of handsets. The swift leap can be attributed to the wide number of handsets that [...]

iPhone In a message posted to its website on Friday, Apple updated its iPhone case program webpage and announced that the program will officially be coming to an end on September 30. A return to Apple’s normal return policy means that iPhone owner now have only 14 days to return their device and will incur a 10% restocking fee. “We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue [...]

iPhone After Apple has announced yesterday that it will be relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code, developers were greatly relieved, as it meant that they could again start using third party development tools to create iOS apps. Adobe was glad at this development and has termed  Apple’s decision “great [...]

Source : TUAW Erica Sadun at TUAW has discovered that the new iPod Nano has video playback capabilities lying deep in the code  (the internal settings property list, to be specific).  It may not be anything more than a bit of excess or leftover code, but we are keeping our fingers crossed.

Mozilla Mozilla released two new editions of Mozilla Firefox browser – Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12 with an aim to fix critical security vulnerabilities in each and to help Web site operators block  clickjacking. Its becoming crucial for Web browsers to constantly watch for new attack possibilities as they become more powerful and independent of the Operating Systems. The 10 critical [...]