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Chinese Paper Accuses Google of Hampering Searches

biggooglebksGoogle Inc. faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party’s main newspaper accused the U.S. search giant of trying to keep Internet users away following its reports on a copyright dispute.

The online People’s Daily book section said the three-day disruption began last Wednesday after it reported on a Chinese group’s complaint that Google’s plan for an online library of digitized books might violate Chinese authors’ copyrights.

Google searches returned a warning that the site might contain software that could harm computers, said Pan Jian, the section’s manager.  Read more...

Intel and Nokia Announce Broad Mobile Partnership

Intel and Nokia Announce Broad Mobile Partnership

Chipmaking giant Intel and Finland’s Nokia—still the world’s largest mobile handset maker—have announced a broad new strategic partnership aimed at developing Intel-based mobile computing devices and platforms, all built around always-available mobile broadband connectivity and Internet access. The effort will see the companies collaborate on the open source Moblin and Maemo platforms, as well as open source efforts like Mozilla, X.Org, BlueZ, PulseAudio, and oFono. Intel will also license Nokia’s HSPA/3G modem technologies so their capabilities can be integrated right into future mobile device chipsets.

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Mozilla Fennec Gets Pre-Alpha Release

Mozilla Fennec Gets Pre-Alpha Release

Opera isn’t the only open-source browser elbowing out room for itself in the mobile realm. On Tuesday, Mozilla released the first pre-alpha of its Fennec mobile browser for Windows Mobile 6.1.

According to developers, this early release is only intended for the HTC Touch Pro, which made an ideal development platform due to its high-resolution VGA screen and dedicated QWERTY keyboard for input. Mozilla cut both its automatic update feature and support for plug-ins in this early release to get the browser more stable for its public outing.

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Mozilla Stops Firefox 2 Support

Wave goodbye to support for that Firefox 2 browser. As of the middle of December the Mozilla Foundation will end support for it to let its developers focus on the more recent Firefox 3.

On its site, Mozilla wrote:

"Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3."

Firefox 2 received its most recent update just last week, at the same time Firefox 3.0.4 was released, which addresses several security flaws. There will only be one more Firefox 2 update.  Read more...

Mozilla Tests Private Browsing Feature

Mozilla Tests Private Browsing Feature

Mozilla has been planning a private browsing feature for its Firefox browser for a long time, but only now is that beginning to become reality, according to CNET. Although users can already use an extension to achieve the effect, it’s expected that it will be among the advances making its way into Firefox 3.1.

The application is currently being tested in Minefield, where Mozilla tests applications.

When the feature is enabled, all the history, cookies and passwords – everything – vanishes when the window is closed, as if the session had never happened. Users can even start a browsing session in the privacy mode.

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Mozilla Releases Fennec

Mozilla Releases Fennec

Mozilla is moving fast with the mobile version of its Firefox browser. The beta version, dubbed Fennec, has been released, but according to Vnunet, it’s currently only available for the Nokia N810 and N800 Internet tablets.

It’s still very much a work in progress, currently with Flash disabled, but with a PC emulator that lets developers try out capabilities on other platforms.

According to Mozilla Mark Finkle:

“Fennec is being tested pretty hard now, and by people who love to find bugs. We are finding and fixing lots of issues now. It’s not entirely landed yet and will likely get some tweaks as we iterate on the design.”

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Mozilla To Offer Mobile Browser

Most people would agree that Mozilla’s done a pretty good job with the Firefox browser. Now they’re setting out plans for the next couple of years, and those include a mobile browser and making their existing products more effective, Vnunet reports.

“There are also other broader goals that Mozilla might take on – proposals to date include education, open source evangelism in general, open everything, assisting online communities with participatory tools,” chairperson Mitchell Baker wrote in a blog.

“These discussions will pick up steam as Mark Surman joins us. Having a set of goals for our product and technology development will also provide valuable input into that discussion.”  Read more...

Mozilla Issues Firefox Updates

Mozilla has issued updates, all rated as “critical” for both the Firefox 2 and 3 browsers.

Firefox 3 receives three patches, the first for Mac OSX, to stop a potential attack by a malformed .gif file. The second fixes a flaw in the uniform resource identifier (URI) that could let external apps access the computer. The final Firefox fix addresses the way the browser handles CSS code. Without the fix, it’s possible for a crafted CSS object to crash the application then allow remote code execution.

Two pair of updates for Firefox 2 address the URI and CSS issues.  Read more...

Firefox 3 World Record Official

It’s official. Mozilla can now claim the world record for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period, after Guinness World Records put the stamp on the figure of 8,002,530 for the Firefox 3 browser.

Of course, as the first to hold that, they haven’t smashed any previous record, but it’s still a great achievement to make the record books. They’ll receive the certificate as proof in London next week.

Mozilla Marketing head Paul Kim told the BBC:  Read more...

Firefox 3 Up To 19 Million Downloads

One week out of the box, and the people at Mozilla are smiling about their new baby. And well they might, since Firefox 3 has been downloaded 19.6 million times during that period.

The first day, of course, saw a record-setting eight million downloads (although its official world record status has yet to be confirmed).

Now that the dust has cleared a little, Mozilla have been able to look more closely at who downloaded the browser. The majority, 5.4 million of the downloads, came from the US, followed by Germany with 1.7 million, Japan with a million, and the UK with a little over 800,000 downloads.  Read more...

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