Nokia's XpressMusic series adds another device to its portfolio, Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, a smartphone that combines business and multimedia features. While the phone may look like an ordinary bar handset, the surprise comes from the fact that it comes with a full QWERTY keyboard. More goodies included are two game-dedicated keys placed above the display. Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is a mid-budget device stuffed with lots of features that will surely meet any user's demands. Either it's music that you w...
[read more >>] Computer maker Acer has announced today the launch of its new smartphone “Liquid” series, a Qalcomm Snapdragon-based handset that runs under Google's Android operating system. The new device comes to the market with a WVGA touchscreen display, includes the powerful 1GHz processor from Qualcomm and sports the Donut flavor of Android (1.6). Unfortunately, no details on the handset's availability emerged. According to the company, the new device is the “world’s first Android 1.6 hi...
[read more >>] Just as Lavasoft has already accustomed its users by taking eight months to bake a new version of its flagship product, Ad-Aware, it could not disappoint this year either, especially with the fierce competition and every security product struggling to adapt to the new trend in malware attacks. In the past years viruses have lost their touch and spyware and spam took the number one spot as the most vicious cyber disease. So this should be Ad-Aware’s lucky ticket as spyware is its specialty and this is the fi...
[read more >>] Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just released a new version of its Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0, this time one that goes out of Beta. Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0.0.10 release has been made available for download both on Nokia's website and on Ovi, the company added. Since the software solution has been pulled out of the Nokia Beta Labs, it seems that it will also start to appear in product CD/DVDs in device sales boxes in the near future. According to the company, the new software solution is meant to replace some of ...
[read more >>] Apple’s Support forums have become filled with users' complaints of a Snow Leopard bug eating away their data when they would log into the 'guest' account, then log back out of the account and back into their normal one to find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped. Many are reporting that not only are their settings reset, but, in most cases, all data is gone. Still, the home directory still exists under "/Users/username," but it is completely empty. Users claim their ...
[read more >>] Welcome to the 66th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux distributions were announced last week: SystemRescueCd 1.3.1, Gentoo 10, Tiny Core 2.4.1 and Mandriva Linux 2010.0 RC2. In other news: The KDE Community announced the second maintenance release of the KDE 4.3 desktop environment. An in-depth review of the MP3 Diags 0.99.06.041 application is also present in this edition. The weekly ends with the video clip of the week, the latest Linux distributions released/updated last week and the develo...
[read more >>] Reports have revealed that a hacker has been able to produce a jailbreak tool for iPhone OS 3.1.2, the latest software update for iPhone and iPod touch users from Apple. The tool – blackra1n – can effectively jailbreak any iPhone or iPod touch device, but does not unlock iPhones for use with non-supported carriers. Softpedia doesn’t encourage jailbreaking. An update on the iPhone Dev Team’s blog revealed last week that users enjoying the benefits of a jailbroken / unlocked iPhone should n...
[read more >>] The final version of a Windows 7 feature that allows users of select editions to run a free copy of Windows XP inside a virtual machine has been leaked and made available for download from various illegal third-party sources, including BitTorrent trackers and warez websites. Microsoft released Windows XP Mode to manufacturing on October 1st, 2009, and indicated that end users would be able to get their hands on a copy of the feature concomitantly with the general availability deadline of Windows 7, namely October...
[read more >>] Delayed two days, the second release candidate of the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2010.0 Linux distribution, due for launch in early November this year, is now available on mirrors worldwide. The features of this release include the newly launched KDE 4.3.2 and GNOME 2.28.0 desktop environments, as well as the Linux kernel 2.6.31.2 and X.Org Server 1.6.3. Moreover, a Guest account was added in this release, and we believe that everyone knows how this works, from the Ubuntu operating system. Support for Poulsbo driver...
[read more >>] One of the nicest mobile phones that will come to the market this year running under Microsoft's recently launched Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system is the HTC HD2, which has been previously known as the HTC Leo. Sporting a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocked in at 1GHz and a large 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen display, the new handset should soon become one of the most wanted Windows phones on the market. If it’s not already. The HTC HD2 (Leo) emerged into the wild quite a while ago, yet it was...
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