Mobile maker Nokia’s Symbian operating system is on the ropes, its lead being stripped away blow by Android, but if its new boss can make it, they can enjoy some relief.
Stephen Elop, appointed Nokia’s chief executive three months ago, is due to present his plans to arrest the market leader’s decline early next year, and there are siren voices that would have him turn his back on mobile software and focus on handsets.
Mozilla has launched a new marketing campaign to promote Firefox: adopting red pandas and putting them on live webcams. The company wants to underline the fact that the red panda is the mascot for its open source browser via a new section on its site called Firefox Live.
On Wednesday night AVG pushed an update for its popular anti-virus product, however instead of enhancing and correcting bugs for the program, it left 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Vista inoperable.
Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, has called out Microsoft, Apple, and Google for installing browser plug-ins in Firefox. The Mozilla executive is annoyed with the practice and calls it evil, since the user is not asked to give the companies permission to install the plug-ins in question.
Google has released version 8 of its browser. The update brings hundreds of bug fixes as well as many features that have been available on the Chrome beta and dev channels to users interested in using Chrome’s latest builds.