Google has acquired iOS and Mac email client Sparrow.according to Sparrow, Sparrow’s developers will now be joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision.Sparrow mail client would continue to be supported and critical bugs and security issues would be patched but but no new features will be added.
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Mozilla Firefox 15 beta 1 for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this beta version?
Preliminary native PDF support (Aurora/Beta only)
Support for SPDY networking protocol v3
WebGL enhancements, including compressed textures for better performance
Optimized memory usage for add-ons
JavaScript debugger integrated into developer tools
New layout view added to Inspector
The CSS word-break property has been implemented.
High precision event timer implemented
New responsive design tool allows web developers to switch between desktop and mobile views of sites
Native support for the Opus audio codec added
The source element now supports the media attribute
The audio and video elements now support the played attribute
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Thunderbird 15 Beta is now available for download and testing. Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation. what’s new in this beta version of thunderbird?
Integration of Chat with unified global search
Do Not Track option has been added
New Australis User Interface
Ubuntu One has been added to the list of online storage providers for Filelink
Various fixes and performance improvements
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Maxthon 3.4.2.2000 is now available for download. What’s new in this version?
Main Frame Fixes:
Side Bar display problem
Focus lose problem of Address Bar
Webkit Core Fixes:
mailto protocol could not invoke mail clients
Sometimes site background images could not display in Night Mode
Sync problem of Quick Access background images
“Save as” dialog box could not remember the type
It might lose cookies when switched the browsing mode in some pages
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Microsoft has announced in a blog post that it has added a 215 terabytes of new satellite and Global Ortho images to the Bing Maps database. United States and features certain areas in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Tokyo. The total area covered in this data release is nearly 230,004 square kilometers and consists of over 1.1 million files.
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Wine 1.5.9 is now available for download. Wine is a free software that allows users to install and run Windows software on other operating systems.
What’s new in this version?
Support for GPOS font tables in Uniscribe.
Support for XRandr 1.2 and 1.3.
Parser improvements for the HLSL compiler.
More key exchange algorithms supported on Mac OS.
Relay tracing on ARM.
Various bug fixes.
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Microsoft announced Windows 8 release date and it will be available to users starting October 26, 2012.And the Release to Manufacturing version (RT)of Win 8 is set to hit the first week of August.
PayPal has announced that they have acquired mobile payment facilitator card.io. card.io is a San Francisco based company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone.Employees from card.io will join PayPal’s global production team.
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Free Download Manager 3.9.1 Beta build 1263 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in Free Download Manager 3.9.1 Beta build 1263 release?
Fixed:Bug in Bittorrent downloads properties window.
Fixed:Bug in Firefox extension.
Known bugs:FDM does not process macros when changing destination folder after group change.
Note:Please notice that this version uses newer format of its service files which is incompatible with the previous versions of FDM.
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Thunderbird 14 is now available for download. Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation. what’s new in this version of thunderbird?
Security fixes:
Code execution through javascript: URLs
Content Security Policy 1.0 implementation errors cause data leakage
JSDependentString::undepend string conversion results in memory corruption
X-Frame-Options header ignored when duplicated
Out of bounds read in QCMS
Same-compartment Security Wrappers can be bypassed
use-after-free in nsGlobalWindow::PageHidden
Improper filtering of javascript in HTML feed-view
Spoofing issue with location
Gecko memory corruption
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:14.0/ rv:10.0.6)
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