Firefox earns popularity; bags 20% shares world wide November 5, 2008
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Mozilla’s browser Firefox is getting popularity fever worldwide as the days pass by and for the first time in history the browser has gained over 20% international market share, according to a report. The chart below shows international market shares for four weeks in a row of October.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
Opera gets upgraded November 5, 2008
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Norwegian browser Opera has upgraded to the version 9.62. The new patch has fixed the two potential security breaches. The new version is valid for operating systems including Windows, Mac and Linux.
[via CNET download]
China bans 10 online video sites; gives warning to 17 more October 31, 2008
Posted by Masroor Khan in Technology.Tags: ban, Cina, Internet, Piracy, shutdown, video sites
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The Chinese government has banned 10 online video sites and has warned 17 others. The sites banned were accused of violating the regulations. An interesting thing about these sites is that none of them were banned due to piracy. The charges on the sites include the display of horrific, inappropriate and violent content, running a service without permission, etc. The sites warned includes 12 video sites and a game service provider. Among the warned sites is VeryCD, which is the country’s largest eDonkey indexing site.
[via TorrentFreak]
