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• 29 October 2010

• News: The 9 best mobile web-browsing tools

  PC Advisor presents the best mobile browsing apps for Google Android, BlackBerry and Apple iPhone.

• News: The 18 best audio apps

  PC Advisor presents the best digital audio apps for Google Android, BlackBerry and Apple iPhone, and recommends the best utilities and online applications for your desktop or laptop PC.

• News: The 12 best TV and video apps

  PC Advisor presents the best TV and video apps for Google Android, BlackBerry and Apple iPhone, and recommends the best utilities and online applications for your desktop or laptop PC.

• News: The 150 best software apps for mobile and web

  Are you tired of picking through thousands of worthless downloads to find a few gems? PC Advisor presents our favourite mobile apps for Google Android, BlackBerry and Apple iPhone, and recommend the best utilities and online applications for your desktop or laptop PC.

• News: 22 great informative apps

  PC Advisor selects the most informative apps for Google Android, BlackBerry and Apple iPhone, and recommends the best utilities and online applications for your desktop or laptop PC.

• News: Internet Explorer 9 hits 10 million downloads mark

  Microsoft has revealed the beta version of Internet Explorer 9 has been downloaded by 10 million web users, just six weeks after its launch.

• News: RealPlayer now lets you manage photos

  A new version of RealPlayer that allows web users to manage their digital photos has been launched.

• News: Microsoft quarter boosted by Windows 7 & Office

  Healthy sales of Windows 7, Office 2010 and Xbox 360 consoles propelled Microsoft to US$5.41 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2011, a 51 percent increase from the same period a year before.

• News: The nine best free Windows 7 downloads

  Windows 7 has just celebrated its first birthday, and the operating system has received almost universal praise from businesses and consumers alike. But even the most nimble, secure, and versatile OS has room for improvement

• 28 October 2010

• News: Opera Mini 5.1 beta available for Symbian S60 phones

  Opera has made a berta version of its mobile browser, Opera Mini 5.1, available for mobile phones running the Symbian S60 platform.

• News: Mozilla delays Firefox 4 until 2011

  Mozilla has revealed it will delay the release of Firefox 4 until 2011.

• News: Windows 7 SP1 RC available to public

  Microsoft has promoted Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to release candidate status, hitting the last major milestone before the code is finalised and shipped early next year

• 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.

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