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27 October 2010
News: Opera Mini used by 14% more Brits

The number of webpages visited from from mobile phones in the UK has surged by 70 percent since September last year, says Opera.
News: Windows Phone 7 app count hits 1,000

The Windows Phone Marketplace now has 1,000 applications and games for handsets running Windows Phone 7, according to some blogs.
News: Google Android now boasts over 100,000 apps

Just a week after Apple announced its app store cracked the 300,000 mark, Google revealed today that its Android marketplace is now offering more than 100,000 of the little programs. The disclosure, though, did little to quell grumblings from Android developers over the marketplace's operation.
26 October 2010
News: Tesco launches barcode scanner app for iPhone

Tesco is updating its iPhone app to include a barcode reader that will enable customers to add items to their online shopping basket more quickly and simply than before.
News: Businesses to snub Windows 8

Businesses currently migrating to Windows 7 are unlikely to go through the same process with Windows 8 in two years' time, says a Gartner analyst.
News: Ozzie: Microsoft must move to post-PC era

As Ray Ozzie prepares to leave Microsoft, he's offering a new five-year plan for the company that eschews the current PC-centric world
News: Firefox add-on lets users hijack web-browsing sessions

A new Firefox add-on lets "pretty much anyone" scan a Wi-Fi network and hijack others' access to Facebook, Twitter and a host of other services, a security researcher warned today.
25 October 2010
News: Windows 8 to launch in 2012?

Microsoft's next operating system Windows 8, looks set to be released in 2012, according to Microsoft's Dutch website.
News: Lexmark unveils Photobucket, Picasa and MobileMe SmartSolutions

Lexmark is continuing to expand its range of SmartSolutions apps compatible with its internet-connected printers.
News: Apple dumps Flash from Mac OS X

Apple has revealed it will stop bundling Adobe's Flash with Mac OS X.
News: Google Chrome 7 now available

Google updated its Chrome browser to version 7 and patched 11 vulnerabilities at the same time.
News: Adobe offers Project Rome to consumers

Adobe has launched Project Rome, a new all-in-one content creation and publishing application targeted to consumers, small businesses, and educators
23 October 2010
News: Should you block access to Facebook,Twitter at work?

Social networking has taken over the web, and your company probably, which isn't ideal, especially since they're a productivity sink and a bandwidth suck.
22 October 2010
News: Bullguard unveils latest version of internet security software

Bullguard has unveiled Bullguard Internet Security 10, the latest versions of its PC security software.
Video: Steve Jobs demonstrates FaceTime on Mac

FaceTime software available for Macs with OS X 10.6
Video: Apple unveils iLife 11 features

Updated features of iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand
News: 5 Criticisms of Mac App Store (And Why They're Wrong)

The Mac App Store has the potential to breathe new life into the Mac platform. With Mac marketshare rising and there being a growing number of developers with skill in Objective-C from the iOS side of things, the time is definitely right for a centralized, and familiar-looking app delivery model for the Mac. However, since Apple released the Mac App Store guidelines similar to those for iOS, there has been a fair bit of criticism going around. Here are some of the criticisms I've seen and why they're wrong (or at the very least probably shortsighted).
News: Baidu's profits grow as Google's share falls in China

China's largest search engine, Baidu, doubled its net profit in the third quarter as it continued to take market share from Google.
News: Shockwave bug is critical, Adobe warns

Adobe warned Thursday of a critical bug in its Shockwave Player that affects both Windows and Macintosh PCs.
News: Windows Phone 7 reviews: too little, too late

The first reviews of Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 are in. Smartphones running the new OS will soon join the millions of iPhone and Android phones, but do they stand a chance? Reviewers are sceptical about the immediate success of Windows Phone 7 devices, as they are missing too many features, but still see a chance for Microsoft's shiny new user interface.