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Mozilla Puts Native PDF Viewer in Firefox 19

The Portable Document Format is one of the more ubiquitous document types both on the Web and on personal devices, and can be used for distributing manuals, brochures, and most other formatted documents. However, until now Firefox, one of the more popular Web browsers, in part due to its availability on OS X, Windows, and Linux, has not had a built-in PDF reader. Instead, to open PDFs it's been necessary to either install a browser plug-in or download the PDFs and open them in a managing program like Apple's Preview.

February 20, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft Moves Outlook.com Out of Preview

Six months after its initial launch, the preview of Outlook.com, Microsoft’s free webmail service that is meant to replace the aging Hotmail brand and design, now has over 60 million active users according to the company’s own data. Microsoft is officially taking Outlook.com out of preview and will start prompting its 360 million Hotmail users to switch to the new service (while keeping their old email addresses). Microsoft expects to switch all Hotmail users to the new interface and platform by the summer.

February 20, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Opera Embraces WebKit in Browser Brain Transplant

Opera Software, an independent voice in the browser market since the 1990s, will dramatically change its strategy this year by adopting the WebKit browser engine used by Safari and Chrome. The Norwegian company announced the move and said it will show off the first fruits of the work with a WebKit-based version of its Android browser at the Mobile World Congress show in less than two weeks. But the company will move to WebKit for its desktop browser, too.

February 18, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Skype 6.2 Arrives for Windows, Mac

Microsoft's Skype team rolled out two new updates, both labeled as version 6.2, for Windows and Mac. The Windows version includes a redesigned top toolbar that brings together main actions, like calling phones, creating groups, and adding contacts. It also includes eGifting, or the ability to send Skype credits to users on their birthday which the recipients can use anytime.

February 18, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft Delivers Fixes for Windows 8, Windows RT

As previously announced, the February cumulative update includes fixes designed to improve Surface Wi-Fi reliability and connectivity, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed. Microsoft also has provided a fix for the app-store-downloading bug that a number of Surface RT and Windows RT users reported a few weeks back. The problem resulted in Windows RT systems entering Connected Standby while the devices were downloading new Windows Updates via Automatic Update.

February 13, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Adobe

New Patches for Flash Player and Shockwave Player

Adobe released security updates for Flash Player and Shockwave Player on Tuesday in order to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two products. New stand-alone versions of Flash Player 11 were released for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The Flash Player plug-ins bundled with Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 10 will be automatically updated through the update mechanisms of the two browsers.

February 13, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Google

9th Edition Of Google's Summer Of Code Program

As expected, Google will once again run its Summer of Code program for college students around the world this year. Students who make it into the competitive program get to work on open-source projects for mentoring organizations from around the globe. Over the past eight editions, 6,000 students from more than 100 countries participated in the program. Students will able to submit their applications starting April 22.

February 12, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Apple

Apple Releases iOS 6.1.1 to Fix iPhone 4S Issues

Apple has put out a supplemental update to iOS 6.1 for iPhone 4S owners following issues with cellular performance. iOS 6.1.1, which was released to developers last Wednesday, went out to iPhone 4S owners as a free update this afternoon. In the release notes, Apple says the update fixes an issue that could impact cellular performance and reliability for iPhone 4S. The update did not go out to owners on other iOS devices, including newer versions of the iPhone, or cellular-enabled models of the iPad.

February 12, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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LibreOffice Kicks it Up to Version 4.0

Microsoft Office has long been the dominant office suite. Through the years there have been many contenders rise and fall: WordPerfect, Corel, StarOffice, and too many more to count. Sun Microsystem’s StarOffice eventually mutated into OpenOffice, which for a long time was the best alternative to Microsoft’s dominance. But when Oracle bought Sun, legions of developers abandoned OpenOffice, and instead threw in with a forked version called LibreOffice.

February 11, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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BlackBerry Won’t Launch BB10 Devices In Japan

BlackBerry may have been much of the past few months criss-crossing the globe in an effort to drum up developer support for BlackBerry 10, but it turns out that there’s at least one market where the company has essentially given up. According to a recent report from the Nikkei Business Daily, the Waterloo-based company would not bring BlackBerry 10 and the devices that run it to Japan’s shores, and BlackBerry has just confirmed its stance.

February 11, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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