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Mobile Firefox is today only available for software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. The work to bring a new mobile firefox version for Nokia smartphones and Samsung smartphones has began.

When Mozilla started to work on a mobile version of the popular browser Firefox, they named it Fennec. The work to develop a new version of Fennec, that will be able to run on S60 platforms, has began.

Christian Sejersen, Director of Mobile Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, revealed on his blog that Mozilla need to have a presence on the Symbian platform. The new version of Fennec will likely be available in the summer 2009. Sejersen also mentioned on his blog that they can´t deploy Fennec for iPhone, RIM and Android for technical or licensing reasons.

As I mentioned above so is Mobile Firefox so far only available for software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. To give people who don’t have a Nokia Internet Tablet the ability to localize, experiment and build add-ons, they have realeased a package for PCs that runs on Windows, Linux or OS X.

Download Fennec HERE.

More than 98% of Windows computers are running at least one unpatched application and nearly half of these computers contain 11 or more programs which are at risk from attack.

These alarming revelations are made by Copenhagen-based security company Secunia. Secunia APS says that 98.1% of the PCs on which Personal Software Inspector was installed have one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading and only the remaining 1.9% of the PCs had no out of date programs.

Data for this was gathered from 20000 users of which one third has systems which ran a vulnerable version of five or fewer programs while nearly half of the machines ran 11 or more insecure applications.

Motorola, maker of such stylish phones as the Moto Razr, Moto Rizr etc. has decided to mass produce its concept phone which is called ‘cute phone’. Though it is totted as being the next in line for the smart phone title it has a  very limited range of offerings.

It has only a few buttons and it can stand, hide, click snaps and has a colour screen. The internal functionalities are still up to us to guess but going by the size, rather the volume of the phone, one can easily guess that it can accommodate a few more gizmos. Read more…

Have you seen the typo Apple made in iPhone update recently?

They managed to make a typo on a menu on the iPhone. Apple has written the Categories menu on the new Podcast download area of the new application as “Catagories”.

What makes this typo even more embarrassing is a comment from Scott Forstall, Apple’s vice president of Platform Experience, were he said: “I actually have a photographer’s loupe that I use to make sure every pixel is right. We will argue over literally a single pixel.”

iPhone Typo

A lot has been happening the past few months in the chip manufacturing business. While on one hand Intel’s sales have been soaring, the tiny rival AMD has been struggling. Not many years ago, Intel was troubled at the rate which AMD was eating into it’s profits.

Today, Things are a bit different. Intel still maintains it’s monopoly in the microprocessor business. With sales just dwindling by the day, AMD had no choice, but to take drastic steps in order to be in a position to take on Intel. Among these, was shutting down it’s own manufacturing plants and raking in as many investments as possible from wherever possible. Read more…

Although the controversy of a kill switch started in the days following the launch of the android based phone G1 from Google, it originated from the iPhone. Jonathan Zdziarski, an independent iPhone developer recently came across a secret line of code in the iPhone. Read more…

Playstation has delayed the long-awaited launch of it’s PS3 title Little Big Planet. The reason for this is the discovery that background scores in the game are offensive to some users. This was brought to the notice of Playstation by some users on their forum.

In the run-up to the launch, users said “Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from the Koran deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online patch, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it. ”These were with regards to lyrics and music of the track Tapha Niang by African kora player Toumani Diabate. Read more…

The Yahoo Microsoft imbroglio seems to have gone through an extended gestation period. It’s high time we heard of the birth of a new entity. All the expectations are justified at least with all the attention the whole affair has been receiving, and the limbo it has been over the past nine odd months!

It all started close to a year ago with Microsoft pitching in to buy out Yahoo!. Steve Ballmer and Jerry Wang were in the news. At times the stock prices was the debate, while in the recent past, Google entered the limelight. There were talks of Google entering the deal with Yahoo to offset Microsoft from gaining hold of the online marketing business. Read more…

Following close on the heels of the Google deal that made everyone tremble because Yahoo! and Google would achieve an overwhelming monopoly in the market, has worked on its strong points and upgraded its image ads system.

The new system is named apt, changed from amp because of a trademark conflict. At present the platform is targeted at newspaper ads only, and complements web sites with extremely focused ads that are derived from the surfer’s online activities. This focus of the ads means more returns to the advertisers, and more revenues per ad for Yahoo! Read more…

Miami Based Software Company, Citix systems Inc, is rolling out a new programme that will allow employees to get their own computers to work. This initiative is called BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer). The company plans to give their employees a stipend of $2,100 to get a laptop of their own choice, with whatever specs they think will be beneficial for their kind of work, and with a three year service plan. Read more…