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Facebook is about to release a new feature that tells you where you’re logged in from, where that location is, and at what time you (or someone else) were logged in at.
This is part of Facebook’s new privacy features, and the Palo Alto company says that this feature will help increase your account security. The new feature is slowly rolling out, and when it’s here, you can access it under the Account Security tab.
Source: Neowin
At long last, Microsoft has put the finishing touches to their next implementation of Windows Phone, dubbed “Windows Phone 7” in conjunction with the Windows 7 branding.
As we’ve discussed before, Windows Phone 7 is a new approach to Smartphone computing, and not just simply another rip of iOS, which has done so well for the past 4 years. Unlike iOS, WP7 is different in many ways; first of all, the OS is based on “experiences” and “hubs” or what can also be known as gateways to different features on your Smartphone. Instead of having a single 4×4 grid of icons, you have dynamic “tiles” that present information in real time.
As Microsoft has stated before, the launch is expected to be on September 16th, which is about 2 weeks away as of the time of this writing, and we’re expected to see devices during the 2010 Holiday Season. There certainly a lot of excitement going on, and we can’t wait to give it a run by.
Today Apple unveiled a revamped line of iPods as well as a new Apple TV. The event highlighted a lot of widely anticipated features and additions the blogosphere have been buzzing about for as long as we can remember.
So what did they announce?
New iPod Shuffle – A lot of people wanted the buttons on the Shuffle, so what did Apple do? They added the buttons back, and made it smaller.
New iPod Nano – Now without a wheel, the new iPod Nano is compleately multi-touch based, with a simplistic UI, similar to that of iOS devices.
New iPod Touch – The new iPod Touch comes with an A4 Processor, front and rear facing cameras, a thinner framework, and iOS 4.1. You can edit HD movies with iMovie as well!
New Apple TV – Even though rumors suggested that the Apple TV would be renamed, Apple did what they always do and keep the existing brand. The new Apple TV is smaller, and storageless with Streaming Video, Music and Photo capabilities including the ability to stream TV Shows and Movies from the iTunes Store.
iTunes 10 – With a enhanced feature set including a hybrid list view, social integration with their very own Ping, and support for iOS 4.1, it brings a whole new way of looking at Movies, TV Shows, and other content.
AirPlay – Formally known as AirTunes, AirPlay allows you to stream content to your Apple TV from your iOS Based device.
So what didn’t make the cut? Apple didn’t announce a new iPod Classic, which seems to suggest that they have moved onto a more portable venture with the Nano, Shuffle and Touch models.
So there you have it folks, stay tuned for the press video!
Well, look what we got here. Long Zheng over at istartedsomething snapped this (although blurry) photo from a WP7 promo booth over at TechEd Australia 2010. Looks like we got a bit of MyPhone action going on here, huh?
It looks like you’ll be able to sort your contacts, events, photos, and so on (just like MyPhone for Windows Mobile 6.5), and presented in the familiar-to-most Metro UI.
The program looks really interesting, so we’ll have to wait and see what Microsoft delivers when WP7 is finally released!
[via istartedsomething]
Internet Explorer 9, a topic many have talked about since we began hearing it at MIX. According to Mary Jo Foley, the UI has apparently surfaced from a Microsoft Business Press page, what lies below, is more interesting.
Since MIX there has been a Platform Preview for developers which was used to show the progress of Microsoft’s Trident engine, and their compliance with not only the Acid3 test, but HTML5 as well. According to Neowin, in 20 days, Microsoft plans to let loose a public beta for users to try out, and see for themselves.
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It was only a matter of time when Mozilla would decide to drop the ever aging PowerPC architecture, according to Cnet Mozilla, after collecting usage data has noted that they will most likely not support it in the future, which leaves a small crowd of people without the latest version of Firefox.
Not that this is a big surprise to anyone, especially since Apple dropped the gun in 2005 with their new Intel Macs, and have dropped support for the architecture in later versions of Mac OS.
Director of the Firefox, Mike Beltzner, states:
"I am gathering data on the number of PPC users we have, but the likely outcome is that we will not be supporting PPC [PowerPC] for Firefox 4,"
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Hard to believe that just 15 years ago Microsoft changed the PC industry, just yesterday, Windows 95 turned 15 years old. While I’m certain most of our readers won’t remember the day that it happened, it was a remarkable day in Technology history, not to mention one of Microsoft’s biggest successes of the time. Even moreso, the fact that Microsoft was running two different segments of the Windows business, one for enterprise customers and one for customers, when before that was not necessarily the case.
In a time where computers were a novelty to have, and only so many had them, now we’re in an age where everyone has a computer, on every desk, every lap, or anywhere they go, just like good ol’ Bill said.
Happy Birthday Windows 95, this one is for you.
Video after the break
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If you’ve been following the trends of what Google is doing you would know that Google is working on a way to optimize search so that it shows the results as you type, something that many modern Operating Systems have, and the more innovative small companies have already come up with.
Stricker told TechCrunch, noting;
“At any given time we are running between 50-200 search experiments. You can learn more on our blog,"
More after the break…
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Wzor.net has just released their latest leak, some nice Office 2014 (build 15) screenshots and details.
The first thing to notice when looking at the two screenshots is the “Microsoft Limestone Test Application”. This has appeared in previous Office beta builds, and was removed. A source close to JCXP says that this app is for internal testing of the UI and primary functions of Office, and is nothing too important to pay much attention to.
Wzor noted that Office 15 will be released in 2014, which matches up with the release date of WIndows “8”, the next Microsoft operating system.
We have another screenshot after the break!
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Here comes the latest round of patent and copyright trolling, according to Cnet, Oracle [not Sun] has sued Google over copyright and patent infringement, noting that Google used “key technologies” in their Android Smartphone Operating System.
Back, before Oracle acquired Sun, a lot of Java developers didn’t like the idea that Google pulled over key developers to work on their [then] new mobile OS. It didn’t sit well with a lot of people, and it wasn’t ‘like’ Sun to go through with all the trouble of a patent suit.
Is this a good or bad move for Oracle, and will it go anywhere, only time will tell. We’ll keep tabs on it.
via Cnet
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