The iOS 4.1 update has finally arrived for iPhone and iPod touch owners worldwide, delivering Game Center, high dynamic range (HDR) photos on iPhone 4, support for TV show rentals on iTunes, the ability to upload HD videos to YouTube and MobileMe, additional support for AVRCP-supported accessories, FaceTime calling from Favorites, fixes for iPhone 3G performance and the iPhone 4 proximity sensor, bluetooth improvements, and more.As expected, Apple has rolled out the highly-anticipated iOS 4.1 software update for ...
[read more >>] Game developer BioWare has talked about how it has been tracking player behavior in its action role playing hybrid Mass Effect 2 in order to see what decisions gamers were making in the game in order to get information for the planned third installment in the science fiction series.The developers have emphasized that all the collected information is anonymous and nothing can be traced back to the players.Casey Hudson, who is an executive producer working on the series, says that the team has been looking at what ...
[read more >>] The latest Firefox 4 beta has landed bringing with it a couple of new features like hardware acceleration for Windows users and a new audio API. Firefox 4 Beta 5 also comes with a new security feature which enables sites to force HTTPS connections."The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and incredible new audio capabilities to the Web," Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox announced. "Firefox 4 Beta now leverages hardware acceleration to improve graphics performance for Window...
[read more >>] The first Symbian^3 device Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is set to deliver to the market in during the ongoing year, namely the Nokia N8, has just emerged as available for pre-order on Nokia UK's website, where it goes for free on contract agreements with various carriers in the country. We already knew that the Nokia N8 is expected to arrive in the UK on Vodafone's airwaves, but this is the first time we learn it would be available with other carriers too. Along with making the device available for...
[read more >>] With approximately a week left until Microsoft will debut the public Beta of its revolutionary Internet Explorer 9 browser, new leaks allow users to get a better idea of what the company has in store for them come September 15th, 2010. The video embedded at the bottom of this article is reportedly offering a sneak peek at the Beta development milestone of Internet Explorer 9, which is scheduled for launch next week at the “Beauty of the Web” event in San Francisco. The source of the video claims tha...
[read more >>] The Google homepage in several countries is now sporting a very interesting dynamic logo. The Google logo is created by a number of balls, spelling out the name, but the balls move as soon as you approach them with your mouse cursor.It's unclear what Google is celebrating with the new doodle, since you can't click on it to get to a results page, as is usually the case with regular doodles.The doodle though is very likely marking Google's birthday. The company was incorporated on September 4th, 1998...
[read more >>] Today, leading mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced that it plans on launching its first dual-core smartphones on the market in the fourth quarter of the ongoing year. According to the company, these devices would be based on the second generation NVIDIA Tegra mobile processor, better known as the Tegra 2 System on a Chip (SoC).The Tegra 2 SoC comes with a dual-core CPU, which can deliver increased performance levels, enabling LG to come to the market with a series of fast, powerful handsets. “LG wi...
[read more >>] A new cross-site scripting (XSS) weakness identified on Twitter and can be leveraged by attackers to hijack users' sessions and post on their behalf.According to a report from the XSSed Project, the vulnerability is located in the search script on dev.twitter.com and was discovered by a researcher calling himself "cbr"."This non-persistent Twitter XSS was submitted by 'cbr' on July 29, 2010 and has not been corrected since then," Dimitris Pagkalos, co-founder of the XSSed Project, writes.Following ...
[read more >>] Welcome to the 113th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 and Ubuntu 10.10 Beta. In other news: Phoronix Media released Phoronix Test Suite 2.8; Nvidia released NVIDIA 256.53 Linux display driver, with initial support for Xorg-Server 1.9; the KDE Project announced KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1; Likewise presented the VMware ESXi Active Directory integration technology; ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Starter Edition was re...
[read more >>] Apple has posted a public download link for the iOS 4.1 update / restore file targeting future owners of iPod touch fourth-generation who are yet have the device shipped to them.The fourth-generation iPod touch is currently available for pre-order, and is slated to become available next week, Apple said during its September 1 media event.For one reason or another, the Cupertino-based electronics maker has already started offering the iOS 4.1 IPSW file which future iPod touch owners will need to restore to a fresh...
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Puzzle Quest is a mix between a role playing game and a match-3 developed by Infinite Interactive and published by D3 ...
