AOL has said that it will finally cut off its support for Netscape web browser after the pioneer browser lost its dominance in market. AOL, which acquired Netscape in 1999, released in an online blog that it would stop further development of Netscape.
Top Drapeau, director Netscape, said efforts to revive browser were unsuccessful in gaining market share from Internet Explorer. AOL said that the Netscape browser will be operational but the company will stop releasing security and other browser updates after 1st of February.
Drapeau himself recommended the customers to switch to Mozilla’sFirefox which has recently release Firefox 3 Beta 2. All the versions of Firefox are free for download from Mozilla’s website.
The mobile phones manufacturing company Motorola Inc and Metrologic Instruments Inc have settled all outstanding patent infringement disputes, the two companies declared in a joint statement on Monday.
Metrologic and Motorola subsidiary Symbol Technologies Inc had been in a dispute over patents related to bar-code scanning and mobile computing since 2002.
Now as a part of the agreement, both companies will cross license their patents for a limited term.
The new Sony Ericsson W890 is a super-slim one with cut line, storage space of 2 GB and 3.2 MP Camera. The stylish new W890 truly touches the hearts of youngsters with latest Walkman features. The W890 is not the one with loudest voice but certainly has the ability to play music at good quality. Loudest isn’t always the best. W890 - Another good edition to Walkman series.
The phone’s key features are Quad-band GSM, fast photo browser, FM Radio, 2 GB M2 card included, battery cover release mechanism and finger print resistant body panels. Talking about the Pro’s, there are a few Con’s there too; like No camera auto-focus and no flash, no skins for walkman player and just a 26 MB internal memory. However the internal memory is not much valuable with increasing external memories but the absence of auto-focus and flash does matter.
Sony Ericsson W890 is 9.9 mm thick and weighs just 78 grams. Display has grown from 1.8" to 2" in W890. The handset is offered in three different colors named; (i) Espresso Black, (ii) Mocha Brown, (iii) Sparkling Silver.
Let’s talk about the keypad and set control buttons. Just like before, there is on/off key on the top of the phone with absolutely no key or port at the bottom side. A video call camera is located just above the screen of the phone. Below the display, there are navigational keys grouped in three circular patterns. The call and the call end key are placed separately on the keypad. Even if you are a regular Sony Ericsson phone user, it will take time for you to handle the keypad because there’s no back key this time. On the right side of the phone there is a camera key and also video rocker. The Walkman key as usual rests on the left side of the phone along with the port for USB, Charger and Handsfree. Remember there is a single port for USB, Charger and Handsfree.
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The combination of a keyboard and a mouse makes a Combimouse. A Combimouse comprises of two units; a left unit and a right unit. The Combimouse is designed for right-handed people with left unit of Combimouse as stationary and right unit as a moveable unit.
The left unit being stationary provides the work of a normal QWERTY keyboard. The right unit has a grip like a keyboard with similar mass and center of gravity as that of a conventional mouse. It has the same grip too. Depending upon the support surface it is laying, it can have any desired mobility.
The Combimouse right unit is a mobile combination keyboard and mouse that can be moved around on a support surface like a conventional mouse. The keys are arranged in the fashion of the right hand side of a conventional QWERTY
keyboard.
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This new Ultra-Thin Blu-ray drive is capable of reading and burning high definition DVDs in the Blu-ray format. The drive also supports its users to read and write standard DVDs and CDs. It also has the capability to store upto 50 Giga bytes of content in it.
Ultra-thin disk drives make it possible for notebook makers to build even more slimmer and lighter products in future. The drives could find a place in small ultra mobile PCs. Panasonic became one of the first to introduce a drive with a 4x writing speed.
Toshiba this month released the first notebook with a rewritable HD DVD drive. This HD DVD drive could be used to transfer recorded TV shows with a high definition camera onto a DVD for archiving. The Qosmio Series 2 comes in 15.4 and 17 inch models and is capable of receiving two TV channels at the same time. This provides people with ability to watch one show while recording the other. Pricing for the notebooks starts at about $2,600.
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LG, a trusted Korean mobile phone brand has now come with special 5.1 Mega Pixel 3G phone, LG Viewty KU990. With its fresh, elegant outlooks, this latest phone has many cool features in it especially for its camera technology that leads the other cameraphone. Its large 3.0 inches (240 x 400) wide screen brings satisfaction for everyone.
Sized 103.5 x 54.4 x 14.8 (mm) weighing 112g, this phone can play various video format such as MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, and ASF. Unfortunately, the screen color need to be improve as it’s only 262k colored while other phone manufacturers had come with up to 16M color screen. This weakness however, is well covered by gorgeous touch screen function that is yet to be found in other same class phone!
The innovation of LG Viewty continues as its provided MultiNetworking support such as HSDPA, UMTS, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 so you don’t have to be worry traveling anywhere. If 130 Mb built-in memory doesn’t enough to fit your file, upgrade it up to 2Gb spaces via Micro SD memory card is possible so you can enjoy saving files.
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Do you want an ultimate smart computing experience in your phone then what are you waiting for. Just go to your nearest Nokia dealer and buy a Nokia N95. Awesome phone looks really hot and sexy dual sliding handset the one and only phone with. N95 is EISE best product of the year award and winner of 2007 TIPA honor for best imaging phone I think u must have it if you have a really big amount in your pocket. Because this phone is as expensive as it has skin tone. I have my Nokia N95 so I advice you this smart phone, with multimedia experience. Built in 40 X 53 mm TFT put on view with 16 million colors in dimension of 99 X 53 X 21 mm, weighing just 120g. Phonebook is almost unlimited. Your call records are saved up to 30 days so no need to remind where ever, whenever you call. All recent calls are saved in your N95. There is a card slot where you can insert microSD. It has 160 MB internal memory, 64 MB SD Ram and AM 11 332 MZ processor. N95 has Inbuilt Bluetooth, Infrared & GPS is class 10 (32-48 kbps) receivers.
FEATURES: N95 have Symbian Operating System v9.2. Inbuilt 5 mega pixel camera with flash which have Carl Zeiss optical lenses. Camera can take picture up to 2592 x 1944 pixels with auto focus facility. Camera takes DVD quality video. And a minor CIF Video call camera. N95 installs maps application of over hundreds of country. On which u can surf maps of different places and this make your traveling experience more easy and entertaining.
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