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Users iPad, a tablet pioneer Apple, now can cheer. The weakness of these devices will be reduced somewhat with the latest operating system upgrade to IOS 4.2 was announced on Monday (22/11/2010).

It could even be said that the IOS 4.2 is a “life” has for the iPad. With the software, IPAD can now support multi-tasking function, can adjust to a variety of file folders, inbox integrated, and features a print over the wireless network.

Apple also provides a free service Find My iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Part of this MobileMe service helps users track the hers if at any time lost. This service is free for iPhone 4, iPad, and fourth-generation iPod Touch running IOS 4.2.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs also said the software upgrade is made iPad really become like a new product. To get the latest software, users can download it directly through iTunes.

In addition to iPad, IOS 4.2 is also available for iPhone and iPod Touch. No fewer than 100 new features offered in this latest version of the software. For iPad, these features really new. But for iPhone and iPod Touch, most of the features already available in previous versions.

Success with online gaming Farmville, Zynga launch CityVille. Game will be available to Internet users around the world in the near future.

If Farmville takes place in rural agricultural areas, as its name CityVille using urban background. “CityVille is a mix of Monopoly and Main Street,” said Sean Kelly, General Manager of Zynga, as reported by AFP on Thursday (11/18/2010).

In the game, each player is challenged to build a dream city from scratch and working with surrounding towns. He must manage to avoid overpopulation, create jobs, and run a franchise business for the continuance. Farmville and presents a model similar to the successful FrontierVille first.

Zynga becoming known since Farmville popular on Facebook. Another game, Mafia Wars, also popular on Facebook. Now there are many artificial Zynga games, such as FishVille, Petville, and ZyngaPoker. Zynga claims-made games have been used 320 million people around the world since 2007.

Android-based smartphone users can use an alternative browser which promises faster Internet access and comfortable. Today Opera Software announced that Opera Mobile 1.10 Beta has been available free on Android Market from 9 November 2010.

Opera Mobile is claimed to be able to load pages faster than the original browser with panning, scrolling and zooming is smooth when browsing the Android operating system. In addition, users will get a better roaming experience on the network is slow or busy with Opera Turbo, which provides data compression by 80 percent.

This product supports the function of pinch-to-zoom which gives full control to the user for the level of magnification. At 01.10 Opera Mobile for Android is the text can easily be larger at all zoom levels, so it always looks sharp and readable without sacrificing any speed or data compression on Opera Mobile.

Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta version of Android features as native Android applications, a full rendering of the Opera Presto engine, default browser settings, support Geolocation, and SVG support. Download Opera Mobile directly from Android phone for free.
Market, or in m.opera.com.

In the near future, Microsoft will enable online game store to serve the needs of game lovers in the Windows-based PC. Through this service, consumers can get the game easier way to download it.

“We built a digital store for those interested in PC gaming as a whole,” said Kevin Unangst, senior global director of Microsoft’s PC as reported by AFP on Friday (22/10/2010). Service-named Games for the Windows Marketplace will be available at the web address www.gamesforwindows.com from 15 November 2010.

When launched, the 100 game titles will be available by special quotation. Among other games like Fable and Grand Theft Auto. A number of game producers have expressed support for these services, such as Rockstar, Capcom, Square Enix, and Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment.

In addition to providing services download games, online stores will also be integrated with Xbox Live services and Windows Live online gaming community which is run by Microsoft.

Tablet BlackBerry Playbook announced Research In Motion (RIM) on Monday (9/27/2010), immediately greeted by Amazon. E-commerce giant were immediately announced that the application of e-Reader Kindle will be available in a tablet device will be released early next year.

With the application, BlackBerry users will Playbook to buy digital books from Amazon’s online stores and read it directly on the device. Currently about 700,000 titles of books available on Amazon that can be selected.

Amazon provides a special e-Reader to access the book collection through e-Reader homemade device called Kindle. But lately, with increasing competition, Amazon Kindle also provides applications for other devices, such as the iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, and Android-based devices.

Kindle Applications can be obtained through Amazon sites in http://www.amazon.com/kindle. The e-Reader from Amazon adds digital book access option on the BlackBerry Playbook. Because, in the demo which aired RIM, tablet device that is equipped with e-Reader application made by Kobo.

Sony Ericsson Xperia smartphone users X10 Android plaform be prepared to upgrade to 2.1 or Eclair. Sony Ericsson ensure it will provide a software update for the device from the end of October 2010 as reported in its official blog.

“The program to upgrade to version higher Android OS will commence in the 4th quarter of this year as part of a long-term program of our consumer services,” Sony Ericsson said in a statement on Friday (22/10/2010).

In a statement, Sony Ericsson remains committed to providing upgrades for Android phones that have been marketed in the world. Upgrades will also be done on a smartphone X10 Mini, Mini Pro X10, and X8 although not yet announced when it will be done.

However, about Android roadmap to upgrade to 2.2 or Froyo, until now there is no any official statement from Sony Ericsson.

“Sony Ericsson does not make a statement about the upgrade program to cancel or ignore a particular version of the Android OS,” according to Sony Ericsson’s response.

Mobile security system seems to become more robust and use the personal side as the medium. This indicates that the era of passwords and PINs is getting less safe. It is the scientists at Manchester University to develop software that will be used in mobile phones by using the user’s face. Actually, this device has been adopted in notebooks, webcams, and Xbox.

The workings of this software is to utilize the phone camera (especially the front camera) that will capture the face of the phone owners. Then there are 22 points in the key face for the next phone verification was active as usual. In this way, it is suspected to be more accurate and certainly a lot safer because basically everyone has the face of significant differences, although the twins.
So what’s the difference with face detection that had been used?
“Mobile face tracker (common name of an existing software, Red) only determine the point on the face are estimates only to later be made scale,” said Dr. Phil Tresadern, this software development team leader.

Beneficiaries can even be used not only to open the menu, but also access to e-mail, social networks, and most important online banking.
“The process is very fast and I do not see anything else that would be a rival, especially in the use of cell phones,” said Tresadern again.

The pilot project will be the first time on the Nokia N900 and will be part of the project Mobile Biometrics (MoBio).

Mozilla shows the seriousness working on a mobile browser market by releasing a beta version of Firefox 4 platform mobile to Android and (Nokia) Maemo. The browser is much faster than the claimed default browser to compete with Android 2.1 and WebKit on Android SunSpider 2.2.

“The initial version of Firefox made for Android is very slow compared to the default browser. Performance is important in a mobile browser and our efforts to improve it paid off already. Latest beta version firmer and we have a plan makes it even more quickly,” wrote Matt Brubeck on the Mozilla blog , on Thursday (08/10/2010).

Mobile browser, codenamed Fennec 2.0 that uses the same basic layout with the Firefox browser desktop 4 beta. However, Firefox 4 beta use the latest Javascript and the latest extensions, called JagerMonkey. This beta version of Firefox Sync is also fully equipped, to synchronize bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, and data entry in the Firefox browser on different platforms.

According to Brubeck, the presence of Firefox 4 beta is the answer to that carried Apple’s WebKit technology and Google. According to him, Webkit that make a web site can be optimized on the mobile platform is very good, but forcing a new web built web-only with Webkit. It is considered dangerous, such as ten years ago when Internet Explorer controls much of the market and most sites use a specific mark-ups only for IE.

Again, Microsoft offered a new mobile operating system. Which is targeted at users in business and enterprise.

Windows Embedded Handheld OS will be split into two versions:
• resilient device (ruggedized devices) – Windows Mobile 6.5-based technology, scheduled for late 2010.
• Handheld enterprise – based Phone 7, scheduled in the second half of 2011.

“If you see an offer Windows Phone (now), really redirected to a smart phone,” said Microsoft spokesman David Kelly. “But this must be in tune with what is needed on the device or handheld enterprise where you have needs such as different input methods .. . Also, if you see the support of-life, it does not really fit with the business side of consumers. ”

Currently, noted Mary-Jo Foley of ZDNet, Microsoft is offering at least six different operating systems (and confusing) for mobile phones and mobile devices. Microsoft has two different mobile phone operating system – Windows Mobile Phone OS 6.x and 7.0. If Kin phone OS, which is a modified version of OS 7.0, counted, their number to three. That’s new for Windows Embedded Handheld OS.

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