Apple is bringing the media out to Cupertino to discuss the next version of OS X at 10AM PT on October 20th

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The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 8.0.552.0 for all platforms. It contains a number of stability and other improvements. More details about the changes are available in the SVN revision log

Download: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

Microsoft is going to make us remember October 11, 2010, as the day Windows Phone 7 finally became official.

Key features:

• Premium mobile OS (high minimum hardware requirements)
• Clean, uncluttered interface with distinctive design language
• Easy and thumbable user interface
• Smooth operation with cool animations and transition effects
• A fresh start with no legacy support needed
• Backed up and developed by one of the largest software companies in the world
• Excellent MS Office mobile implementation
• Top-notch social integration
• Excellent cloud services integration (SkyDrive, Windows Live, Xbox Live)
• Wireless syncing of multimedia content

Main disadvantages:

• No system-wide file manager
• No videocalling
• Limited third-party apps availability
• No Bluetooth file transfers
• No USB mass storage mode
• No multitasking
• No copy/paste
• Too dependent on Zune software for computer file management and syncing
• No music player equalisers
• No Flash or Silverlight support in the web browser
• No sign of free Bing maps Navigation so far
• No DivX/XviD video support
• No internet tethering support
• Memory cards are not natively supported by the OS

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Limera1n is just released by Geohot to jailbreak iOS 4.1 for all iDevices. Limra1n is an untethered jailbreaking tool for windows. Limera1n can be used to jailbreak iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS,  iPod touch 4G / 3G, untethered running iOS 4.1 and Pad on iOS 3.2.2.

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LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute.

Beta release:

• All builds are English-only (en-US). We regret that we were unable to provide other localized versions. We are currently working on an improved mechanism to make localized versions in your language available.

• The LibreOffice branding and renaming is new and work in progress. You may still see old graphics, icons or websites. So please bear with us. This also applies to the BrOffice.org branding – applicable in Brazil.

• If you want to extend LibreOffice with new features via Extensions, then the link within the software refers, in error, to the OpenOffice.org Extension website. For Free Software extensions, please use the FSF Extension List at http://fsf.org/openoffice instead.

• The current LibreOffice beta replaces any existing OpenOffice.org installation, on Windows. Installations should co-exist in the future.

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Today at Facebook event in Palo Alto, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg  has presented a new feature that allows users to download all their Facebook information such as Profile, Photos, Friends, Posts, Messages, Notes and more in a single zip file. It will be available soon for Facebook users.

you can access this feature from Account Settings > Download Your information. It will allows you to download everything from your Facebook profile including friends list, Facebook profile, events, photos, videos, wall posts, inbox messages, friends and notes into a zip file.

Skype announced the release of Skype for Android™

Skype for Android :

• Make free Skype-to-Skype calls over WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G)* to other Skype users anywhere in the world using Skype’s SILK codec for CD-like audio quality.

• Make low rate Skype calls to landline or mobile phones

• Send and receive instant messages to one or a group of friends on Skype

• Synchronize contacts between Skype and the native address book and after synchronization place Skype calls directly from the native address book.

• See when Skype contacts are online and available to call or chat

• Easily import names and numbers to the Skype application from the native address book

• Receive calls on their Skype online number

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Release doesn’t include any new features but it comes with multiple fixes for various bugs and a few vulnerabilities.

- “Fraud Protection” renamed to “Fraud and Malware Protection”

- Relative paths not working in the Filename setting for Speed Dial background

- Premature shutdown when using vBulletin’s WYSIWYG editor

- Loading an animated png causes high CPU usage with no response from the browser

- yahoo.cn mailproviders SMTP entry not using a submission port

- Changing the default cookie preference to “Accept all cookies”

- Installing Opera 10.60 windows overwrites saved search preferences

- Google Calendar compatibility

- Unite listening on UDP 1900 even if UPnP service discovery is off

- Several cases where widgets will not run

- Premature shutdown when loading qq.com

- Setting the onload property of XMLHttpRequest blocks document memory from being garbage collected

- Opera treating binary files as plain text (opening it in the browser instead of showing a download dialog)

- Premature shutdown when loading the Canvas demo

- Printing from print preview results in either a freeze or corrupted page

- Widgets not having access to a network after restart

- “Accept cookies” and “only from the site I visit” settings being incorrect in Preferences dialog

- Premature shutdown occurring on startup of Opera under Windows 98

- Disk cache not working correctly in turbo mode

- Fixed an issue where heap buffer overflow in HTML5 canvas could be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Kuzzcc.

- Fixed an issue where unexpected changes in tab focus could be used to run programs from the Internet, as reported by Jakob Balle and Sven Krewitt of Secunia.

- Fixed an issue where news feed preview could subscribe to feeds without interaction, as reported by Alexios Fakos.

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Mozilla has just released the third beta release of Firefox 4.0. Firefox 4.0 is a major stepup for the popular open source browser. It introduces a host of new features like WebM video support and improved Windows 7 integration, besides featuring a completely revamped skin.

The latest beta adds touch support on Windows 7. This is a big deal as Windows 7 is expected to be used in several upcoming tablet devices. Firefox 4 now supports multi-touch gestures, which can also be leveraged by touchscreen optimised web applications.

It’s an open secret that Firefox has been struggling to keep up with the likes of Opera and Chrome, when it comes to rendering speed. In fact, even Internet Explorer 9 performs significantly better than Firefox in artificial JavaScript rendering benchmarks. Beta 3 includes a a new way of representing values in JavaScript that should make number crunching more efficient.

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Opera Mini, one of the most popular mobile browsers in the world, has just reached an important milestone, as it passed the one billion pages served per day mark. Opera joins the exclusive one billion served per day club. According to Opera Software statistics, Opera Mini users viewed more than one billion pages on July 25, 2010. Every second, Opera Mini servers compressed more than 11,500 pages before sending that content to phones around the world.

“Each day is different in the fast-growing mobile Web. Every day more people around the world choose Opera Mini and view more pages through this browser,” said Jon von Tetzchner, co-founder, Opera Software. “Crossing one billion pages views in a day is further proof that people desire the best Internet experience, no matter where they live or what device they use.”
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