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Patent infringement suit aimed at Apple??™s iPhone browser
2008-11-25

Logo AppleApple has been hit with yet another suit targeting the iPhone. This time it is EMG Technology, which claims that the iPhone??™s Safari web browser infringes on an EMG??™s patent ???in the way the iPhone navigates the Internet.??? The company asked the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to prevent Apple from further patent infringement and seeks unspecified damages, which would include royalties and lost profit.

 
 
Nokia collaboration may keep you out of traffic jams
2008-11-24

Logo NokiaGPS-enabled gadgets, from dedicated units to mobile phones, hold the promise of helping their users dodge bad traffic. Unfortunately, they're often hamstrung by the information backing them; many of the most popular traffic monitoring systems, including Google Maps, simply don't have sufficiently refined real-time traffic data. A new project, backed by Nokia, NAVTEQ, and UC Berkeley, hopes to alter this by making your mobile phone part of a two-way conversation about traffic conditions.

 
 
IE 8 pushes back Firefox and Chrome even further
2008-11-20

Logo IE7Microsoft, feeling the pinch of competition in the Browser Wars, has started to throw some of its brainpower behind software enhancements.

 
 
Microsoft announces free Morro antivirus software
2008-11-19

Logo MicrosoftMicrosoft is getting serious about global security, offering a free anti-malware package code-named Morro that has been specially designed for low cost PCs in developing nations.

 
 
Weekly updates
2008-11-16

X-DRIVERS logoEfficiently following to the software released by different producers' updates our recourse makes easier your work. As usual, we are glad to get you know a list of drivers, firmware, BIOS, flash utilities, tweaking utilities for the passing week.

All updates' versions are in one list, classified on the equipment type for better perception the information.

 
 
Windows Mobile 6.5 confirmed, WinMo 7 still quite far away
2008-11-11

Logo Windows MobileFollowing the rumors that have been going around, the CEO of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer "mentioned" that the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS for mobile phones will hit the market in 2009, without revealing any details about the improvements in the OS itself or its availability in end-user devices.

 
 
Microsoft: 1 in 10 Vista printer driver installations fail
2008-11-11

Logo Windows VistaAt a WinHEC session in Los Angeles last week, bloggers report, just during last September, of the driver installations for Windows Vista automatically reported back to Microsoft, over 11% of install attempts for printer drivers failed.

 
 
Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption in 15 Minutes
2008-11-10

Logo Wi-FiWhile the WEP-encrypted Wi-Fi networks have been easily broken for quite some time now, latest reports indicate that the more secure WPA or WPA2 encryption systems are also vulnerable.

 
 
DivX 7 Player 7.0 Beta 1 with H.264 support released
2008-11-10

Logo DivXDivX has released a preview of its upcoming v7.0 video playback software, which now includes support for high definition H.264 files, with an extension for most Windows media players, and the surround sound AAC audio format.

 
 
Weekly updates
2008-11-10

X-DRIVERS logoEfficiently following to the software released by different producers' updates our recourse makes easier your work. As usual, we are glad to get you know a list of drivers, firmware, BIOS, flash utilities, tweaking utilities for the passing week.

All updates' versions are in one list, classified on the equipment type for better perception the information.

 
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