Qualcomm’s not exactly a novice when it comes to sizing up phones — it’s already responsible for the graphics benchmark Neocore . Now, it also wants to show you just how much your mobile browser is lagging.
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Qualcomm launches Vellamo browser benchmark for Android devices
Tired of playing around with Android apps in your web browser courtesy of Amazon’s virtual machine ? Well, thanks to super hero programmer Fabrice Bellard, you can now try your hand at something a little more challenging. “For fun,” he built a complete PC emulator in JavaScript, and then used it to run a fully functioning version of Linux in a web browser
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Fabrice Bellard builds PC emulator in JavaScript to run Linux in a browser
Opera has always been the little browser that could, and the company is now embracing that spirit more than ever with its new ad campaign for the just-released Opera 11.10. To that end, it’s launched a new ad campaign that it proudly boasts is its most expensive ever — a record-setting $8,517.26, including a hefty $1,500 that they splurged on some “trendy Swedish clothes.” Of course, the browser itself is the real story here and, while it’s an incremental upgrade, it does boast a few fairly big new features, including support for Google’s new WebP image format, a “SpeedDial” for your favorite websites, and a turbo mode that promises to compress and load web pages faster when you’re on a slow connection. Just how does that work
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Opera 11.10 launched with company’s ‘most expensive ad ever’
We know how Mozilla must feel. It spends every waking hour tweaking and perfecting Firefox to eek out as much performance as possible, only to see it all ruined by lousy add-ons that weigh the browser down like a block of cement
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Mozilla shames developers with list of slow performing Firefox add-ons
March was a big month for Web browsers, with major new versions of both Internet Explorer and Firefox .
Google is now offering its Page Speed service, which just released a Chrome extension last week , as a browser-agnostic Web service called Page Speed Online . Just enter a URL and get the results
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Finally – Google Page Speed With No Plugin Required
Google Mobile Search added a new feature today that lets users search for stock ticker symbols and see their results in a beautiful, structured interface that scrolls horizontally to display different kinds of results. It would be awesome to see this kind of mobile search interface rolled out beyond search for stocks
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Google’s Newest Mobile Search Feature is a Thing of Beauty
Boxee confirmed on its blog that its next update will add support for the Apple iPad . The streaming content provider will release the Boxee for iPad app that will let you stream content from your Boxee Box to your Apple iPad over a wireless connection. This feature would be ideal for some late night Boxee watching from your bed or some entertainment while you log miles on your treadmill.
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Boxee to add iPad support, more in May
If you have ever had your browser and your computer hijacked , it can be one of the most unpleasant experiences.
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URL X-Ray, Reveal URL Shortener Link Destinations
It’s not often that we absolutely fall in love with an iPhone and iPad stand, because there’s not much that usually sets them apart.
Hot on the heels of a phenomenally sucessful release of the desktop version of Firefox 4 , Mozilla has just launched an Android version of the browser. If you’re a Firefox user and an Android owner, then the browser’s worth downloading as it brings the Firefox sync , giving you access to your bookmarks, open tabs, form data, and passwords across computers
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Firefox 4 Comes to Android
Over the last few months, Evernote has rolled out new versions of its most popular apps, with redesigns to iPhone , Android , Windows , and Mac .
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Evernote (Finally) Updates Its Web Interface
Firefox 4, which launched last week, has attracted considerable interest among technology enthusiasts. The browser was downloaded 7.1 million times during the first day of availability alone. It passed 15 million downloads within the first 48 hours and is currently nearing 40 million total downloads
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Firefox 4 leads IE9 in downloads and usage
A video downloader should be reliable and comfortable to use. What’s meant by that?
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Freemake Video Downloader, Download Videos From The Internet
Today’s the release of the iPad 2 in Europe, and our friends across the pond at Tap! magazine are currently waiting in line at the Bath, England Apple Store for their very own second-generation tablet. They’ve graciously provided us with a couple of videos from the line to give us “Yankee blokes” (see what I did there?) a look at what iPad 2 launches are like overseas (hint: they’re totally the same as ours)
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Video: iPad 2 Launches in the UK
It’s back! The Mac|Life Show has returned. You might remember last week’s epic greenscreen photos from our new studio and this week we’re bringing you the new show in blazing color and stereophonic sound. This week we already start missing Bertrand Serlet, OS X gets an update and AT&T opens up its piggy bank to buy T-Mobile.
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The Mac|Life Show – Bertrand Serlet To Leave Apple
Google yesterday released a security update for the Google Chrome web browser that brings the version of the browser to 10.0.648.204. The update is as usually installed via automatic updates on most Google Chrome installations
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Google Chrome Security Update Released
Where can I download Firefox?
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Firefox Download Guide, How To Download The Web Browser
The Data Science Toolkit is a collection of data tools and open APIs curated by our own Pete Warden. You can use it to extract text from a document, learn the political leanings of a particular neighborhood, find all the names of people mentioned in a text and more.
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Dead Simple Data Mining with Data Science Toolkit
Here an app store, there an app store, everywhere an app store. 2011 is quickly becoming a year of app stores, with each browser offering its own marketplace of Web apps. What’s a multi-browser user to do in this world?
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One Extension to Rule Them All: Kynetx Opens Cross-Browser App Store
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Read more here: TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games
Read more: MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
Continued here: Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
See the original post here: Turn Your iPhone Into A Bouncy Ball With The M-Edge iPhone SuperShell
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Read more from the original source: Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App
We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
Read more from the original source: The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents
Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
Original post: About Last Night Wants To Improve Your Nightlife By Making It Even More Social
I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
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See original here: Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More
