Even though not a single phone equipped with the OS is available commercially as of yet, Opera said Thursday it had ported a version of its browser to Android.
Interested parties can download the technical preview from the company's website, and are being asked to submit feedback before Opera launches the product in beta.
Under government orders on Tuesday, Indonesian ISPs blocked sites that shared Dutch anti-Islamist Geert Wilders' 16-minute film Fitna. The ban on these sites has reportedly now been lifted.
The Jakarta Post reported that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had banned Dutch politician Geert Wilders' film Fitna for disturbing social harmony in Indonesia. Subsequently, 146 ISPs and 30 network access providers were asked to block Web sites that hosted the controversial film. The list of blocked sites included YouTube, MySpace, and Rapidshare.
In a letter to AOL employees yesterday, AOL CEO Randy Falco appeared to almost blatantly court some sort of merger or acquisition for his company. But Falco left AOL staff hanging in the breeze as to what kind of deal, he might strike, and with whom.
"I'm sure you've read some of the recent news speculating about potential AOL partnerships. While the company can't comment on any discussions at this time, I'd like to provide some perspective on the industry and AOL's position in the market," Falco wrote, in a letter sent out on the eve of a strategy meeting slated to take place today among Yahoo's directors.
The Federal Communications Commission has exacted fines on retailers found to not be fully advising customers about the DTV transition, including Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Circuit City, and Target; as well as a number of CE manufacturers.
Wal-Mart/Sam's West, Circuit City, Fry's, Target, Sears, K-Mart, and CompUSA were all found to have violated a federal rule on labeling analog TV-related merchandise sold either in-store or on their Web sites, resulting in a total of $3,928,000 in forfeitures.
The video game "Bully" has been ordered to be taken off the shelves in South America's largest nation following a Thursday ruling.
Produced by Rockstar Games, it is distributed by JPF Magazine in Brazil. A local youth support center requested a ban, which Judge Flavio Rabello granted. Retailers in the country have been given 30 days to comply.
Those who purchased an HD DVD set-top player through Amazon will be eligible for a $50 credit towards a future purchase..
Customers can choose to spend the money in any way they see fit, including putting it toward Blu-ray player. It is not the first time a retailer has attempted to appease those who may have bought into HD DVD: Best Buy and Wal-Mart have done the same.
A simple recommendation that the European Commission consider not passing laws that help ISPs throttle Internet traffic, is being heralded as a stick in the eye of French President Sarkozy, who has aims to require ISPs to do just that.
What passed the European Parliament yesterday was not a bill or a new law. But a single paragraph of text added to a simple parliamentary report, at no less than the last minute, is being treated as a huge symbolic victory for users who don't want their ISPs throttling or cutting off their Internet access.
Yesterday, Symantec announced its acquisition of application streaming specialist AppStream, one full year after buying AppStream's long-time partner, application virtualization vendor Altiris. So what kept AppStream waiting?
"I'm just surprised that Symantec didn't acquire AppStream earlier -- or that Altiris didn't do so even before that," said Brian Madden, president and technical analyst at The Brian Madden Company, during an interview Thursday with BetaNews.
In response to unconfirmed reports that Sling Media's SlingCatcher would be delayed until late this year, the company told BetaNews SlingCatcher will ship when it's good and ready.
Slingbox is a piece of hardware that saw a lot of hype last year that connects to a user's television and the Internet, allowing TV programs to be viewed in the SlingPlayer from anywhere the user signs on.
On Thursday, NVidia introduced its newest graphics processing units and media and communications processors, and it's hard not to notice that the company is adopting a platform-based focus for its graphics product line...perhaps to counter ATI.
The Santa Clara-based company today re-announced GeForce 9800 GX2, joining forces with the GeForce 9800 GTX and GeForce 9600 GT GPUs; along with the nForce 790i Ultra SLI MCP chipset.
It will now be up to a new working group, yet to be given an official name, to manage the process of making OXML play nice with ODF. It's out of Microsoft's hands.
We can't call it "Office Open XML" anymore, because it no longer belongs to Microsoft Office exclusively. As of yesterday, International Organization for Standardization committee SC 34 passed a resolution that effectively assumes stewardship of Open XML, the document format standard originally produced by Microsoft, and which is now officially under new management.
Virtualization company Parallels has released a new beta of its server virtualization software for Intel-based Macs.
Parallel's application allows an enterprise IT department to virtualize server environments, thus saving money on hardware needs. By definition, the platform is a "bare-metal hypervisor."
Intel today sold off more of its optical platform to Emcore, continuing on with a strategy of dumping unprofitable assets and activities that detract from its core business.
Today's sale includes the enterprise and storage assets of Intel's optical storage unit, as well as its Connects cables business, to Emcore, a fiber optics networking supplier in Alburquerque, New Mexico. Last December, Intel sold Emcore the telecom portion of its optical platform.
A team of experts headed by security guru Ira Winkler was hired by an anonymous power company to test the security of a power grid's network. The door was practically held open for them.
In a matter of hours, the team infiltrated the grid's supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks using simple phishing tools: social engineering and browser exploits.
IBM today filled a hole in its storage product line-up by buying FilesX, a rising star in the category of continuous data protection (CDP) and data recovery software for Windows.
The Armonk company plans to use the enterprise-oriented FilesX technology as a complement to an existing product called IBM Tivoli Continous Data Protection for Files, IBM officials said in a statement. CDP for Files is geared to individual PC users and small and mid-sized business (SMBs).