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Apple announces iOS 7

Post last modified:June 11, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Apple announced iOS 7, new version of Apple’s mobile operating system at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).

Main features:

New flatter design.
All new Control Center.
Notification Center with new today feature.
AirDrop for iOS- share photos, videos, contacts.
smarter multitasking.
New Camera filters.
Safari -Unified smart search field,New tab view.
iTunes Radio.
Redesigned Siri interface,new female or male voice an uses Bing, Wikipedia, and Twitter.
turning off Find My iPhone or erasing your device requires your Apple ID and password.
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Skype 6.5 released

Post last modified:June 6, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Skype 6.5 for windows is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

improved stability of video messaging.
improved notification.
Accepting a contact request will now appear in your instant message view.

Fixes:
Cancel all doesn’t cancel file transfers.
Upon cancel of file transfer the transfer shows as successfully completed.
When one participant accepted file transfer, sender could not cancel the transfer.
Upon connection lost, no notification in call toolbar that the call was lost.
Add phone number not accessible with keyboard.
Skype hangs when selecting offline contact and clicking on call phone.
Skype crashes for some users upon exiting.
Skype crashes for some users when tried to send a file.
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Browser Market Share May 2013

Post last modified:June 1, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Desktop Browser Market Share:

According to Net Applications,in may Total market share of

microsoft internet explore is 55.99%,
firefox 20.63%,
chrome 15.74%
Safari 5.46% and
opera 1.77%.

Mobile/Tablet Browser Market Share:

According to Net Applications,in may Total market share of
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Operating System Market share May 2013

Post last modified:June 1, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Desktop Operating System Market Share:

According to Net Applications, in may the total market share of

microsoft windows is 91.67%,
mac 7.07%,
linux 1.26%.

Mobile/Tablet Operating System Market Share in May:

The total market share of
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Linux Mint 15 Olivia released

Post last modified:May 31, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Linux Mint 15 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Based on Ubuntu 13.04.
Linux 3.8 kernel.
MDM now features 3 greeters.
New tool MintSources.
New MintDrivers.
Cinnamon 1.8
MATE 1.6
improved Update Manager.
Artwork improvements.
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Facebook Launches Verified facebook pages and profiles

Post last modified:May 30, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Facebook has announced that facebook Pages and profiles of popular public figures (celebrities, journalists,government officials, popular brands and businesses) with large audiences can now be verified. verified Facebook pages will now display a small blue check mark beside their owner’s name on the social network.
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Opera 15 beta released

Post last modified:May 29, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Opera has released Opera 15 beta, the first webkit based opera desktop browser and without opera mail.

What’s new in this release?

New Webkit rendering engine.
Opera Link.
Off Road mode is included.
New look.
search directly from the new combined address and search bar.
new Stash feature.
new Discover feature.
new Speed Dial search field
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Google chrome 27 stable released

Post last modified:May 22, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Google chrome 27 stable is now available download for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

What’s new in this release?

Web pages load 5% faster on average
chrome.syncFileSystem API
Improved ranking of predictions, improved spell correction, and numerous fundamental improvements for Omnibox predictions.

Security fixes:

Use-after-free in SVG.
Out-of-bounds read in v8.
Bad cast in clipboard handling.
Use-after-free in media loader.
Use-after-free in Pepper resource handling.
Use-after-free in widget handling.
Use-after-free in speech handling.
Use-after-free in style resolution.
Memory safety issues in Web Audio.
Use-after-free in media loader.
Use-after-free race condition with workers.
Possible data extraction with XSS Auditor.
Possible XSS with drag+drop or copy+paste.
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Microsoft announces the Xbox One

Post last modified:May 22, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft at a press event held at its campus in Redmond officially announced its next-generation video game console the Xbox One.

Xbox One hardware details:

8-core CPU,
8GB RAM,
500GB HDD,
a Blu-Ray Drive,
802.11 Wireless with Wi-Fi Direct,
HDMI and USB 3.0.
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HandBrake 0.9.9 released

Post last modified:May 21, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

HandBrake 0.9.9 is now available for download.HandBrake is a free multithreaded video transcoder for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

What’s new in this version?

Improved HandBrake pineapple icon
Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application
Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support
Additional video framerates-30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps
Double framerate (“bob”) mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters
Better audio remix support
Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate
Allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate
Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC
Use libavcodec for DTS audio decoding (instead of libdca)
All graphical interfaces: support for x264’s preset, tune and profile options
Updated built-in presets
Assorted bug fixes and improvements to the core library (libhb)
Updated libraries
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