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Software RSS FeedsScrew you, too, AT&T - Long-time iPhone users, take note. If you have unlimited data, you want to read this: the company will throttle you for more than 2GB of usage in any given month. Do you feel better now about the thousands you've handed over to AT&T for the past several years? Users are alerted to the throttling via text message. "Your data usage is among the top 5 percent of users. Data speeds for the rest of your bill cycle may be reduced", it reads. In a phone call to AT&T customer service, BetaNews has confirmed that the nation's second biggest carrier considers… [Continue Reading]...Feed Source: feeds.betanews.com Will you buy Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone? [poll] - Today, Microsoft Store started taking pre-orders for the Lumia 900, Nokia's flagship Windows Phone. There's a $25 reservere for the handset, which, according to my local shop will be available some time in March. Microsoft Store had no official launch date to give. My question: Will you buy the Lumia 900? Nobody is saying how much the smartphone will cost. That $25 is blind faith the final price will be reasonable enough. Who knows? Given Microsoft's and its partners' marketing commitment, the faithful might see a serious discount for their leap to pre-order. Will you be among them? You can… [Continue Reading]... Windows Phone can't save Nokia - All those analysts predicting Windows Phone as No. 2 smartphone OS in 2015, lifted by Nokia magic, need a reality check. Put away the crystal balls and peer into the present. Today, IDC released fourth-quarter smartphone shipment data, whoa, is the data chart scary. Shocker is Nokia's smartphone death spiral, which no Windows Phone has yet lifted. The once mighty Finnish handset maker ended the quarter with 12.4 percent market share, down from 27.6 percent, and plunging from first place a year earlier to fourth at end of 2011. This is the same quarter Nokia launched its first Windows Phones,… [Continue Reading]... Hangout at the Google+ developer page - Well, it took long enough. Google waited until passing 100 million G+ users before opening a platform developer page. What? You think only Facebook has a social network platform agenda? Google has ambitions, too. Perhaps the big thing will be the weekly Hangouts, where Google+ developers can get the lowdown. It's nothing on the scale of Microsoft's Channel 9 (Say didn't Vic Gundotra have a hand in both Nine and G+?). Channel 9 is more about broadcasting developer information, while Hangouts are live and more interactive. Hangouts are one of the best Google+ features -- video chat with a bunch… [Continue Reading]... Redbox and Verizon to launch streaming video service this year - Coinstar-owned DVD rental kiosk company Redbox was one of the biggest reasons Blockbuster video went bankrupt. Monday, Coinstar announced it has begun a joint venture with communications service provider Verizon to build a subscription streaming video service. It is a move nearly identical to the one Netflix took three-and-a-half years ago, when it branched out from being a DVD-by-mail service to also being a streaming video provider through a partnership with Starz. The streaming content is expected to debut in the second half of 2012, available to both residental and wireless subscribers, and will offer "subscription services and more in… [Continue Reading]... Dolphin Text Editor Menu -- advanced formatting from most any Windows app - If you occasionally need to format a text document in advanced ways, perhaps adding line numbers or sorting its lines alphabetically, then your first thought might be to find and install a programmer?s editor. But these can be expensive, and complex, leaving you with a whole new editing interface to learn. A better idea might be to install Dolphin Text Editor Menu. The program runs in the background, ready to work with virtually any application where you can enter text: Notepad, Wordpad, Word, Excel, Visual Studio, browsers and more. So you can use your preferred application as normal, then when you… [Continue Reading]... Screenshot Captor 3 adds scrolling capture, Windows 7 transparency effects - Donationcoder.com has announced the release of Screenshot Captor 3 for Windows PCs. The donation-ware screen capture utility adds three major new features to this landmark release, including splicing effects, a scrolling screen capture function and a number of watermarking options for marking screenshots. Version 3.0 also includes other recently introduced features, such as full TWAIN and WIA scanner support, automatic upload to supported image hosting services and support for partial Windows 7 transparency effects. Screenshot Captor 3, which is now also available as a separate portable version, adds a ?super deluxe scrolling capture system?, which the author claims is the best on the market.… [Continue Reading]... What are the three top-selling US smartphones? iPhone - In fourth quarter, that would be iPhone 4S, 4 and 3GS, in order from one to three, according to NPD. But before the Apple Fanclub does high-fives, Android share among first-time buyers outpaced iPhone, as measured by smartphone operating system, contradicting some other analyst data. "iPhone 4S outsold the iPhone 4 by 75 percent, and outsold the iPhone 3GS, available for free on AT&T, five to one", Ross Rubin, NPD executive director, says. Well, so much for my theory older, discounted iPhones was a brilliant Apple strategy. Which again raises questions about the power of brand, considering iPhone isn't LTE,… [Continue Reading]... Microsoft Dynamics CRM goes mobile with iOS, Android, BlackBerry apps - If 2011 was all about integrating social media relationships to CRM software, 2012 looks like it will be all about taking relationships to the mobile realm, and mobilizing sales, service and marketing teams with powerful CRM apps. Microsoft on Monday announced the next update to its customer relationship management product Microsoft Dynamics CRM will include a new native mobile client for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 7. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Q2 2012 service update brings a cloud-based mobile CRM service that communicates with these native CRM apps for smartphones and tablets to give them the huge volumes of… [Continue Reading]... The 'Thing Called Love' is Samsung, not Apple [video] - It's fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, and Samsung has a surprise -- a 90-second commercial for the Galaxy Note, which is available for order today. I got to the game late, so can't say if this spot aired earlier. Oh, but it's a goodie. "Freedom!" yells one of the people waiting to buy iPhone, raising his arms and running from outside the Apple Store. Earlier, while still in line (and missing the big game), he mumbles: "This feels like detention". Next to him another waiter asks someone else: "Wanna see a picture of my cat?" "No!" And we don't… [Continue Reading]... CyberLink PowerDVD 12 Ultra Review - PowerDVD has always been one of the most popular commercial DVD and Blu-ray players, but these days that?s just the start of its abilities. CyberLink is now trying to position the program as more of a universal media player, a one-stop shop for all your media playback needs -- and PowerDVD 12 Ultra takes that a notable step forward. Launch the program and what you?ll encounter first of all is PowerDVD?s media library, for instance, which now makes it easy to organize and navigate your videos, music and digital photos: you can rate content, add a description to your file?s metadata, run… [Continue Reading]... 27 downloads you shouldn't miss this week - The update rate for web browsers is faster than ever, and this has been a particularly busy week for Firefox, starting off with the release of Firefox 10 FINAL. While there aren?t a huge number of big, notable changes, aside from perhaps the rejigged forward button that hides until it is needed, this is still an important milestone and offers impressive performance and stability improvements over previous version as well as better support for third-party addons. There is also a portable version of the browser available in the form of Firefox Portable 10.0. The release of a new stable version of Firefox… [Continue Reading]... Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in Idaho plane crash, cause unknown - A plane crash in Boise, Idaho has claimed the life of Micron CEO Steve Appleton. He was 51. Boise Airport officials say that Appleton's experimental fixed wing single engine Lancair crashed shortly after takeoff at 8:58am local time Friday after attempting an emergency landing. NTSB officials say that witnesses reported the plane climbing about 100 to 200 feet, then attempting to turn before falling to the ground. According to Boise NBC affiliate KTVB-TV, Appleton is heard shortly after taking off telling air traffic controllers: "I'd like to turn back in and land. Coming back in." In the background of the… [Continue Reading]... Microsoft opens hardware acceleration spec for C++ ahead of Visual Studio 11 beta - Microsoft on Friday announced the publication of the C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (AMP) specification under the Microsoft Community Promise license. This specification lets C++ developers write programs that can compile and execute on data-parallel hardware like discrete graphics cards or the SIMD vector instruction set in a processor. It can also be thought of as hardware acceleration. Soma Somasegar, the Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division, revealed last summer that the company was working on support for parallelism in the next version of Visual Studio. "In the last few years, we have been seeing an additional trend of heterogeneous hardware… [Continue Reading]... We need new privacy policies for a new world - In a major update to its privacy policy and the addition of "Search Plus Your World", Google has managed to attain the consensus from the tech-enthused world that it is way beyond the innocent baby days of "don?t be evil". Matt Honan of Gizmodo signalled the privacy shift as the end of Google?s "don?t be evil" promise, which the company built its business on, and Sarah Lacy of Pando Daily shared similar sentiments, though hers was related to the Search Plus Your World outcry. In a nutshell, one of the biggest sore points that people are having with Google?s new privacy policy is the fact… [Continue Reading]... Anonymous leaks FBI phone call; reminds of the insecurity of conference lines - Hacktivist group Anonymous has released an audio recording of a January 17 conference call which it claims includes members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the UK's Scotland Yard discussing their latest anti-hacking efforts. We've embedded the 17-minute long clip above. The participants in the conference call talk about Anonymous, LulzSec, Antisec, CSL Security and other black hat security groups, the evidence they have against such groups, and their progress in arresting suspects. The discussion in the call really contains nothing too revealing, and the names of underage hackers are censored. But the nefarious part about this leak is… [Continue Reading]... Apple claims smartphone crown from Nokia, Samsung - iPhone's remarkable fourth-quarter surge -- 37 million units -- lifted the handset ahead of the two previous smartphone leaders, according to Canalys. For full year 2011, Apple shipped 93.1 million smartphones, compared to Samsung's 91.9 million and Nokia's 77.3 million. Nokia, the company that invented the smartphone, has bled share since iPhone launched nearly 5 years ago, but artery versus vein since announcing the switch to Windows Phone from Symbian in February 2011. Apple's climb to the top followed October's iPhone 4S launch and availability of older 3GS and 4 models for free and $99, respectively. Samsung shipped 35.3 million… [Continue Reading]... Android Market is safer than we thought, its 'Bouncer' kicks out bad apps - Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google's Vice President of Engineering for the Android mobile platform, revealed on Thursday that the Android Market has secretly had a system in place named "Bouncer" to scan apps for malicious code. "Bouncer" was running in secret for most of 2011, and Lockheimer says that the period between the first and second halves of 2011 showed a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market. This statement runs contrary to the reports from Juniper Networks last November, who said Android malware had grown some 472 percent in the last six months of 2011. "This drop… [Continue Reading]... Which Firefox is right for you -- 10, 11, 12 or 13? - Following on from the release of Firefox 10 FINAL, Mozilla has updated its developmental branches to versions 11 (Beta), 12 (Aurora/UX) and 13 (Nightly) respectively. As always, the rapid release cycle -- a new version of Firefox ships every six weeks -- means that changes aren?t as radical as you might expect considering the regular version number jumps. However, the latest batch of updates hints that some major updates are heading Firefox?s way over the next few months. Get a head?s up on what?s coming and discover which build is best for your personal needs with our updated guide to what… [Continue Reading]... So much for iPhone catching Android - Just weeks ago the Apple Fanclub of bloggers and journalists giddily posted about how iPhone had reversed Androids' gains. But new data from comScore shows that, in the United States at least, Android is doing just fine, despite iPhone's remarkable fourth-quarter sales surge (more than 37 million units). As measured by smartphone OS among cellular subscribers 13 and older, Android share grew to 47.3 percent at the end of December from 44.8 percent three months earlier. During the same time period, iPhone/iOS rose 2.2 points to 29.6 percent share. More broadly, for all handsets, Apple was the only manufacturer to… [Continue Reading]... Copyright © 2012, FreeMailingListInformation.com. All Rights Reserved. |