Some important achievements:
3 billion Firefox Add-on downloads
shipped in 89 languages
introduction of the Social API and Facebook Messenger integration
world’s first Open Web Device
30 new Web APIs
100+ new features
Firefox marketplace
Donot track
SOPA
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Rework and fixes of the Mac OS X interface
Fix Pulseaudio initial synchronization
Fix MKV, SWF, AIFF and subtitles demuxer crashes
Translations updates and new Welsh translation
DVB-S delivery system detection
Fix audio and video track selection through libVLC
Fix system sleep issue on Mac OS X 10.5
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Google is shutting down some of its services. Shut down product list:
new reservable times on your Calendar through Appointment slots,Smart Rescheduler,Add gadget by URL – january 4 2013
Google Sync -January 30 2013
Google Calendar Sync -December 14 2012
Google Sync for Nokia S60 -January 30 2013
SyncML – January 30 2013
Issue Tracker API – June 14 2013
Punchd Android and iOS apps- June 7 2013
Microsoft said in blog post that Live Mesh support will end on February 13,2013 and there are now over 200 million SkyDrive users and less than 25000 active users of Windows Live Mesh.
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Google has released Zeitgeist 2012, 12th annual report analyzes the hottest and fastest rising search terms throughout the year.
The top most popular global search was
1.Whitney Houston
2.Gangnam Style
3.Hurricane Sandy
4.iPad 3
5.Diablo 3
6.Kate Middleton
7.Olympics 2012
8.Amanda Todd
9.Michael Clarke Duncan
10.BBB12
Mozilla announced the Game On competition for web-based games.The winners get an all-expense paid trip to San Francisco for GDC 2013 and completed game will featured in the Firefox Marketplace.All games must be built using open web technologies.The last date is Feb 24, 2013.
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Adobe has released the official Adobe Reader application for Windows 8.
Main features:
open PDF documents from email, the web, or anywhere on your device
find your most recently read documents
View password-protected PDFs, annotations, and drawing markups
Search text to find specific information
Select single page or continuous scroll modes
zoom in on text or images
Use bookmarks to jump directly to a section in your PDF document
Semantic Zoom thumbnail view
Tap on links in a PDF
Share PDFs
Email PDFs as attachments
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Wordpress 3.5 "Elvin" (in honor of drummer Elvin Jones) is now available for download.What's new in this release? New Twenty Twelve theme A simplified welcome screen. A new color picker. new all-HiDPI (retina) dashboard. Keyboard navigation and screen reader support…
The new updated Yahoo Mail have been launched for the Web and for Microsoft Windows 8, Apple iPhone and Google Android.
New changes:
New look
fewer distractions
quickly login, communicate
fast, easy and available anywhere you go
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Mozilla announced on its blog that animated themes would no longer work in the upcoming Firefox 18, due to performance issue with Personas Plus.
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