Thursday, October 14, 2010

Microsoft Will Strengthen the Security of Hotmail

Microsoft Will Strengthen the Security of Hotmail

Posted in News, Security by Eric

Microsoft said on Monday that they plan to deploy the enhanced security features in the Hotmail to ensure the unauthorized access made by an attacker cannot be achieve, and to reduce the possibility of Hotmail to be used as a junk mail account.

Microsoft will use SSL throughout the whole process of Using Hotmail, not only in the login. Besides, Hotmail will also bring the security detection to help users, which is if the user's account is used by spammers, then the system will remind the user to manage his Hotmail account, and some dangerous part of the account function will be suspended. Hotmail will also support the registration form of mobile phone number, and the visit can be fixed in the trusted computer.

All these security features will be announced as the new functions released before.

YASCU - Capture Your Screen, Capture Your Audience

YASCU - Capture Your Screen, Capture Your Audience

Are you looking for a screen capture utility simple to use? Do you need a screen capture utility that easy fit for UMPCs, Netbooks, and Tablets? Now YASCU is your choice.YASCU is a cool tool for school, tech, home, or business.

YASCU (Yet Another Screen Capture Utility) is a new tool on the block in a very crowded genre. At first glance, it may appear to be the same as many other similar applications, but it has been uniquely designed to function as a simple but useful, multi-purpose business tool.

Let's know more about it. First YASCU needs to execute from Drive C form where your operating system installed. Just download the file save to drive C, and you can run it directly. No Installation required, download and run in 9.58 seconds or less. Now we find the welcome page.

What's more, you can doodle what you like and edit your pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

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Photoscape 3.5 Available To Download

Photoscape 3.5 Available To Download

Posted in News, Photograph & Graphics by Ricky
As the name of this software, Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. There is a piece of good news for every users that Photoscape 3.5 version was released. Not only it can Supports 34 languages, but also added 59 travel icons, 7 face icons and 6 makeup icons. At the same time, it can support the platform of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, NT without Windows 98 and Me. If you are a user of Windows 98 or Me, please use Photoscape 3.4.

Change Log 3.5

Supports 34 languages: English, Korean, Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Dutch, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico, Latin America), French, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Colombian), Thai, Hungarian, Turkish, Catalan, Slovak, Czech, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Estonian, Danish, Romanian, Hebrew, Galician, Finnish, Indonesian and Arabic.
Added Clone Stamp (Editor -> Tools Tab) video
Added Paint Brush (Editor -> Tools Tab)
Added Color Picker (Editor -> Tools Tab & Object Tab)
Improved Mosaic Filter: Mosaic pixel size selectable (Editor -> Tools Tab)
Changed Editor -> Region tab name from 'Region' to 'Tools'. Read the rest of thi

Google Maps Lawsuit: Woman Follows Directions, Gets Run Over

Google Maps Lawsuit: Woman Follows

Lauren Rosenberg, a woman from American and she's suing Google for damages. The reason is Google Maps service to provide wrong routes to her. When she walk along a very busy highway with no pedestrian walkway, she followed the directions exactly. Unfortunately, she was hit by a car in the process.


Rosenberg filed suit against both Harwood(a person who hit her) and Google, claiming both carried responsibility in her injury. Her lawyers claim that Google did not warn her that the route would not offer a safe place for a pedestrian to walk. In fact Google Maps website does do that.

However Google said that this is a test version of walking directions. Google add the function of walking directions in 2008 and they have been warn the user that this product is still developing and should not be convinced. Anyway, we’ve embedded the dangerous Google Maps route below in case you want to check it out.

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Preserve the Layout of Your Original Document with DocTranslator

Preserve the Layout of Your Original Document with DocTranslator

http://blog.brothersoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/google_me.jpgAs we know, Google offers three ways to translate Office documents, they are Google Translate,Google Translator Toolkit, Google Docs. But they have some own shortcomings we may meet before. When you upload documents to Google Translate, the output of translated document have been turned into HTML format, out of the whole original document format. But using Google Translator Toolkit, the interface is a bit confused and has lots of bug. Google Docs also provides translation functionality itself, but it will also be translated and converted to HTML format by destroying original documents.

Today we introduce a new DocTranslator online service, you can upload a Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be), which the size is less than 500KB, then it will help you use Google Translate API to translate. Best of all, it preserves the layout of your original document, which will not change the format, fonts, tables, spacing, etc. And it supports translations to and from more than 50 languages. Just have a try.

The New Launch of Google Earth Enterprise 4.0

The New Launch of Google Earth Enterprise 4.0

Posted in Home & Education, News by Eric

Do you want the people come from all over the world to check your information directly even they have no network connection? That is impossible before you know the magic software - Google Earth Enterprise.The Google Earth for Android was released by Google this year in Feburary. It allowed GEE users to connect with themselves to obtain important information, for instance, 3D-based virtual, including layer, terrain and so vector layer. It also surppoted custom vector search.

But a number of GEE users expect to be visited by their customers even though there is no network connection. Now the Google Earth Enterprise 4.0 can help them achieve the goal. Through Portable Earth System, the authorized users can exprot information mentioned above and so on.

There are two improvements as follows:
1. The user can visit the GEE system through mobile devices.
2. GEE 4.0 can support the Google Earth 5.2 Client and the latest version of Google Earth Plug-in.

Now you can use the new version Google Earth Enterprise to directly get in touch with customers no matter whether they have network or not.

Mobile

Enjoy Everything on HTC Desire HD

Posted in Mobile, News by Eric

HTC Desire HD is a decent upgrade over the much-lauded HTC Desire. From what we have known, it features a 4.3-inch touch screen with pinch-to-zoom capability, 1 GHz processor, 8 megapixel color camera for 720p HD video recording and so much more. All these seem tailor-made for movie watching. Here are some tips on how to make it happen that enjoy every kind of video on HTC Desire HD, the converting software you need, and more. With this article, you will know how to realize watching everything on HTC Desire HD.

Enjoy YouTube video on HTC Desire HD
Of course, you could enjoy YouTube videos on YouTube mobile, only if you could stand its limited video selection and constantly popped out errors. Here is another option, download funny videos on YouTube in FLV and find a third-party video converter to transcode these videos to HTC Desire HD friendly formats:

There are a lot of video converter applications and here we only recommend the freeware, which are absolutely capable for HTC Desire HD video conversion with multi-language supported interface, like Any Video Converter, Sothink Free Video Converter, Aneesoft Video Converter and so forth. Read the rest of this entry »

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Five Steps to Convert Videos for Google Nexus One

Nexus one, manufactured by HTC, the first and the only Android phone marked by Google. It packs a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB RAM, 32GB-capable microSD slot and 3.7-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display. The impressive hardware and software makes Google Nexus One outstanding for both work and multimedia usage. Nevertheless, like most smartphones available right now, it always and only supports MP4 video playback. Then how about multimedia collections (in AVI, WKV, WMV, RMVB, MOV, VOB, FLV, M2TS, MTS, M2T and etc) we already stored in computer or ripped from DVDs.


Naturally, we will think of converting those videos into Google Nexus One friendly formats. However, even if you have made your movies playable on your mobile, the screen resolution and aspect ratio were still not optimized for different displays. Therefore how to convert various videos to the perfect match for our Google Nexus One?


Step 1: Download Video Converter
First things first, pick out video converter software from many of choices on the Internet. It should support to convert between multi-format video, especially for Google Nexus One MP4. And also should be loaded with useful editing features, encoding setting functions and user-friendly interface. After test and tryout, here are top three video converters that work well with Google Nexus One. Additionally, they are all free. Read the rest of this entry »

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Enjoy DVD Movies on Nokia N900


Get rid of the aging image of Symbian system, running the new open, Linux-based and intuitive Maemo OS, Nokia N900, a popular model in Nokia N-series, is designed to serve the needs of the multimedia hungry mobile phone user. The huge 3.5-inch touch-screen with 800 x 480-pixel resolution is capable of displaying up to 16 million colors. And it’s also equipped with impressive 32GB internal memory (expandable to 48GB via microSD cards). With the TFT resistive screen and large memory, N900 ensures perfect movie appreciation experience anytime anywhere.

Believe it or not, the best movies source is still from DVD disc. Since mobile phones only supports limited video formats while DVD is not included and DVD cannot be ripped that simply, here we are going to talk about how to convert DVD to Nokia N-series video with ease.

First things first, try to find some third party software for ripping movie source from DVDs. There are a lot similar products in the market, however not many of them can both rip DVD to video in desired format and dimension. To correctly and perfectly play movies in mobile, you need the movies’ resolution, bit rate, and other properties to be suitable for your cell phone, so we’d better choose one program supporting mobile device, especially Nokia N900. We like Sothink DVD Ripper best. Unlike some trial software, there is no quality loss or watermark in the output movie. Read the rest of this entry »

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23
Aug

Free To Experience The Full Version Of

Brothersoft has just been given some special gift keys for QuickMark for Windows Mobile and Symbian users. Whatever you are Symbian and Windows Mobile users, if you are the first 5 following the article, then you will get a chance to experience the full version of QuickMark for free.


About QuickMark
QuickMark is a utility to decode QR code (a bi-dimensional bar code which can store up to 7089 characters in a simple square) : it uses the camera of the Pocket PC and you just have to press the center button of your pad. You can read for instance barcodes produced by windows live Barcode, a beta Live service by microsoft, or Kaywa.Learn more on Brothersoft and Learn more on SimpleAct.

How to get the key?
- To enter, post a comment on this contest page.
- Each email address can only apply for code once.
- Every verified Brothersoft user will get a code.

Note:
- When you post a comment on this contest page, please write down your device.
- Our staff will contact you immediately, please keep your email available.

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Free To Experience The Full Version Of Advanced Call Manager For BlackBerry And Symbian Users

Brothersoft has just been given some special gift keys for Advanced Call Manager for BlackBerry and Symbian users. If you are the first 5 Symbian users or first 5 BlackBerry users following the article, then you will get a chance to experience Advanced Call Manager for free.


About Advanced Call Manager
Advanced Call Manager is one product of Melon Mobile. Advanced Call Manager will handle your incoming calls and let you personalize your response so your phone never rings at an inappropriate time again. All you need to be in control is Advanced Call Manager: it will handle the incoming calls for you and personalize your approach to the callers – play an instant busy tone, send an SMS, divert calls, mute the ringer or play a personal greeting. Learn more on Brothersoft .Learn more on Melon Mobile. Read the rest of this entry »

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Moon On Your Phone

The moon has powerful allure in all ages; it is full of beauty, legend, romance and myth. It is the closest neighbor of our mother earth and brings us the brightness in the night. The Moon is a satellite of the earth, and so much smaller than the Sun. But it really affects everything on the Earth, also including our life. As well known, our emotion, relationship and more aspect, even though animals and other creatures are all influenced by the Moon.


Do you want know more information about the Moon Phase what influence your life in an easy way? Right now, this idea come true and you can use an application to discover it on your mobile phone anywhere and anytime. This is Deluxe Moon.

First of all, you need to use Windows Mobile PocketPC 5.0~6.53 with .NET Compact Framework 3.5 to run this application.

Let's check out the main screen of this application, the size of any button is very fit for the touch screen, users can choose the date and check the Moon Phase. This application will show your location and time, and then you can choose the different date and check out the change of Moon Phase. The transition of every screen is very smooth. You can complete all your control and see all the information on this screen about Moonset, Moonrise and Culmination time and the graphic is very beautiful. Read the rest of this entry »

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Check out the March Report of Mobile Games Software Industry

Posted in Games, Mobile, News by Eric

Mobile owners tend to download Sport Games with great frequency, taking about 33% of the total mobile games downloads quantity; while puzzle games only taking 8% with the largest quantity.

Brothersoft, the global precedent software download website, today unveiled the March record report of mobile games software industry which lasts for more than 1 mouth referring to all the mobile games software and categories.

The report covers 10 mobile games categories, more than 4500 mobile games in the 10 categories. Among the Top 20 most popular mobile games, Sport games takes 7 seats, Shooting games takes 6 seats, Miscellaneous games takes 4 seats, Puzzle, Action and Card & Casino take 1 seat each.

Quantity Differences
According to the total quantity of each mobile game on March, Brothersoft gives the following detail proportion record.
* Puzzle games occupy about 33% of the total mobile games quantity.
* Miscellaneous games occupy about 19% of the total mobile games quantity.
* Action games occupy about 12% of the total mobile games quantity.
* Among all the 10 categories, Tower Defence and RPG only take 2% of the total mobile games quantity. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Center of Apple's Universe

Apple has announced the dates for the WWDC 2010 together with a few other surprising details. It will start on June 7th to June 11th in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. The tagline of this year's WWDC is "The center of the app universe".


After the iPad conference: 'Come and see our lastest creation' and iPhoneOS4 Preview: 'Get a sneak peek into the future of iPhone OS'. The WWDC 2010 "The center of the app universe" is the third official appearance of the Apple in 2010.

With this new tagline of the WWDC 2010, the developers will be on the ever expanding world of applications with the iPod, iPhone and now iPad. Take more enhanced and consolidated to iPhoneOS. Analysis of the major function of OS4 deeply and so on.

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21
Apr

Access Your Phone With Your Finger

Fingerprint identification is an important means of confidentiality that we often see in science fiction film. But as the popularity of this technology, it can be captured to its shadow in daily life, such as in computers. Who has ever been seen it on mobile phone as so far? Today let's review this app – FingerPrint designed for Symbian S60 5th platform, supports: Nokia 5800, N97, 5230, 5530, N97 mini, X6.


FingerPrint is an application that unlocks the phone with your fingerprint! While protecting your private data on your mobile, it enhances an entertainment fun. Learn more about this application, follow me!

UI
FingerPrint interface is simple and very professional feel, which is composed of three parts: time, scanning area and the text display area. The color is very rich sense of technology, and the set of scanning area is very realistic, reaching as real results. It will be prompted to "Access Granted" when you are using this application, you need to touch your finger to the screen to be "scanned" for your identity, there will be vibration and beep sounds during the scan. If the fingerprint is correct, you can enter the system, or "Access Denied". Read the rest of this entry »

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Windows Phone Marketplace for Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone Marketplace for Windows Phone 7 Series has been unveiled in the MIX10 conference for web designers and developers building the world's most innovative web sites during March 15-17th, 2010, Las Vegas.


As the conference encouraged "The Next Web Now", the MIX10 will beat all odds and expectations. Microsoft will of course bring new technologies, exchange ideas with designers and developers. Among this, the Window Phone Marketplace for Window Phone 7 Series undoubtedly fights for eyeballs.

Window Phone Marketplace supports credit card purchases, operator billing and ad-supported content. This try-before-you-buy scheme has been a hot topic.

All together the Windows Phone Marketplace contains application, game, music ,video, blog and other categories, For any purchase, you will get a "panoramic view" where you browse,see featured items, and get details with ratings, reviews, screen shots, and pricing information.

Purchased apps can be pinned to your Quick Launch screen, saving you a couple taps for your favorite and most frequently-used items.


Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

10
Feb

Get Your Phone Ready on Valentine's Day!

Posted in Mobile, News by Yuki

Tips: 14th, Feb, Valentine's Day. Brothersoft Mobile prepares special software collections for your phone on this romantic holiday. Six mobile applications will be included, creating your cell phone an amazing, unexpected and magic show box!

With Valentine's Day around the corner, are you busy on gifts and holidays? Greeting for everyone a wonderful Valentine's Day! Moreover, Brothersoft Mobile has elaborately collected a few smart mobile tools which could bring further service on this special day. With them, Valentine's Day, is not only a day to show love, but also full of fun and happiness!

BBSmart Alarms Pro
Firstly, prepare this multi-alarm on your phone. Don't want let the other down? Quickly equip it, set alarms at any time and all the time, with confidence in BBSmart Alarms Pro! Let it remind you, what the day is, and what is more important from work!

As such practical mobile phone software, BBSmart Alarms Pro will remind you even you haven't set any alarm, which means, important stuff are sidelong saved as alarm, such as holiday, birthday, etc. And one more tip for the Valentine's Day, that is, you can respectively make preparations and set own alarms with BBSmart Alarms Pro. Sounds considerate, isn't it? Read the rest of this entry »

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Mozilla Fennec RC1 for Maemo

Posted in Mobile, News by Yuki

Here is a gift for the New Year to come from Mozilla! Mozilla Firefox RC1 for Maemo (Nokia N900, N810) is available for download. Also known as Mozilla Fennec, Firefox for Maemo promises to make you "forget about the clunky, stripped-down mobile Web you're used to".

The Firefox mobile browser contains some nice features, such as the awesome Bar, Password Manager, tabbed browsing, location-aware browsing, one-touch book marking, desktop syncing and add-ons (for personalization).

Mozilla Fennec RC1 for Maemo comes with several improvements, including enhanced text rendering and N900 specific bug fixes. If you have the Beta version installed on you phone, this new version will be already pushed for you. Supported devices include Nokia N900 and N810. Multilingual versions are available.

Download the Mozilla Fennec RC1 for Maemo from Brothersoft!

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Follow Your Move, Pick up Anytime

Posted in Mobile, Reviews by Yuki

With the increasing development of technology, cell phones have become an indispensable part to people's daily life. As an important component, whenever to connect with relatives and friends, or communicate with working partners, mobile phone provides you a complete way to get rid of the telephone line. Connect at any time, anywhere with any person, better, you feel free to communicate! That's what the developing technology creates for us!

To put it another way, such kind of free mobile communication also contains a number of troubles. When you are out for a vacation, it might suddenly been washed away due to a call from your boss; piles of ads, a disgusted feeling to wireless development increased; ever since those ubiquitous telemarketing calls interrupt your life as early as they could; when you do not want to answer, but not too rude to hang up…are you really angry, disgusted, distressed?

If you are, then turn your attention to CallGuard from SymbianGuru.com! With it, your phone will be embodied an intelligent keeper facing many calls, which is really a "housekeeper" reminding you follow your move, pick up any calls at any time, with any person you want!

CallGuard is a professional call management tool with a very simple main screen. All together there are three options: Active / Inactive, Lists, Schedule. With Active / Inactive option, you can decide whether to open and keep it running in the background, so this feature is an efficient switch to this software. Read the rest of this entry »

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TOP 10 Hot and Best Selling Games for iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted in Mobile, News by Yuki

For iPhone and iPod touch, iTunes launched its TOP 10 hot and best selling games recently. Those TOP 10 games are all from famous publishers including Electronic Arts Inc, gameloft, tarito, 2K and Sony Pictures Television. Games for virtual life, adventure, action, strategy and intelligence, let's now share the TOP 10 games first!

The Sims 3
It's undoubtedly the deserved winner from Electronic Arts Inc. Customize your Sims with personality traits and physical characteristics, as you decide whether to fulfill their destiny. Play with your Sims using touch and accelerometer controls while exploring stunning 3D open-world environments. Firstly, create a SIM; choose different personalities and physical features. Then, explore new locations, travel through the Sims neighborhood. Keep'em satisfied, dream big, long live the Sims. That's started! It's totally up to you, to realize the Sims, or not? Everything comes out when you have tried!

The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail is a fantastic re-imagining of the original educational game. Westward, Ho! Your favorite pioneering adventure game is back and takes you to an exciting, historical side-scrolling adventure entirely rethought to fit the Touch experience of your iPhone / iPod touch. All of the decisions and problem solved make your Oregon Trail experience even further than you've played before. If you are interested in retro gaming, edutainment, educational games, and strategy, the Oregon Trail is your considerate choice. Read the rest of this entry »

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Powerful Features, First HiCalc Experience

Posted in Mobile, Reviews by Yuki

IPhone, has even brought us a lot of surprises since its launch, beautiful user interface, powerful function design as well as a variety of software application from a number of developers for iPhone around the world. The iPhone application has already been thoroughly above our apprehension that we were supposed to. Hereinafter, today we introduce a smart but also powerful iPhone-based application — a functional calculator called HiCalc; let's see together how iPhone is transformed into a powerful scientific calculator completely and instantly!

This powerful calculating software is launched by the PPCLINK, Inc. Arithmetic, trigonometric equations; equation solving, technology transfer, and finance are totally realized up to 11 build-in modules in it.

If you are a finance staff, or you need to handle large amounts of data calculation everyday… … then here is the right solution! Now let's take a look at HiCalc!

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iPhone OS 3.1.2 update with Bug Fixes

Posted in Mobile, News by Yuki

Apple has just updated iPhone OS 3.1.2 for iPhone operation system, addressing several issues like waking from sleep, network service disruption and crashing during video streaming. See the bug fixes and improvements as follows:

Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
Resolves Intermittent issue that my interrupt cellular network services until restart
Fixes bug that could cause oocasional crash during video streaming

The update is available by plugging your iPhone into your computer and clicking on the update button in iTunes. Once finished, your iPhone will restart and immediately alert you to a Carrier Settings update.

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Amazing PC Experience in Mobile Phone, Opera Mini 5 Beta is Coming

Posted in Mobile, News by Yuki

On September 16th, the Opera Mini 5 Beta is expectedly coming out from Opera to be a powerful weapon for phoen surfing.What’s brilliant in Opera Mini 5 Beta is the PC presention in mobile phone. How actually does it shock us? Next we will share the amazing experience after we got the free trial promptly after its release.

New User Operation Design
Compared with the Oera Mni 4.2 version, this beta changes are quite obvious. Open the Opera Mini 5 Beta initially, there is an opera mini initialization page with the classic Opera Mini icon, a small tip leads you to access the network and select the access point. Moreover, the new version of the welcome screen is more beautiful with the traditional red background which is accompanied by Opera Mini's logo. After the initialization, here comes the use of the agreement, click Accept to start the normal use.

(Initialization Page Comparision, The black one is Opera Mini 5 Beta)

Open the Opera Mini 5 Beta, firstly I am deeply impressed by its browsing interface similar to the deskop. The main interface is very simple, at the top is the brief information of Opera Mini 5 Beta, then the address input box and search box are tied together in the bottom. Upon the multi-label arrangement, users can set nine pages freely, such as those frequent ones you usually be there. After finishing the setting, users could click on a small thumbnail generated in your homepage, then next, browsing logins are available. Read the rest of this entry »

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Maemo in Nokia, Vying with iPhone

Posted in Mobile, News by Yuki

Nokia's new N900 will be about to come out with the latest Maemo 5 technology. Maemo is in fact a computer architecture platform based on open source components, aiming to provide an innovative technology for mobile handset applications. The release of Google Android platform actually launched a big shock to iPhone. Meanwhile, making a general survey of mobile market, it’s easy to find out that presently Nokia's using Maemo trying to get rid of the shadow from iPhone, further to re-establish the overlord in the field of intelligent machines dominance.

So hereafter, we next discuss in details between Maemo and iPhone OS:

Browser:
Maemo :
The fast Mozilla engine is Maemo browser supporter and gives users the full access to rich interactive content; this is really like a browser on your home computer.

iPhone Safari is definitely the most advanced web browser ever on a mobile phone. Use it to surf the real web, really fast. Read the rest of this entry »

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Apple WWDC 2009 - iPhone OS 3.0 Formal Edition Launched

Posted in Mobile, News by Yuki

With the perfect completion of Apple WWDC 2009, the new iPhone OS 3.0 has ended his beta career, and will be officially available for download on 17th, June. At that appointed time, iPhone users can upgrade free of charge, while iPod Touch users need to pay 9.95 U.S. dollars to upgrade.

As one of the highlights on the conference, iPhone OS 3.0 launched more than 100 new features, some are listed below: Read the rest of this entry »