http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News.htm Mediar's RSS news: read the news at every time en-us Mediar 2008 - 2010 Mediar http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://mediar.hybridfire.net/Mini_logos/Mediar.gif http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News.htm 88 31 http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Compatibility.htm There is a lot of excitement for the launch of Windows 7 and Microsoft knows many of you are looking for information as you think about upgrading. To help you, they are announcing the availability of two great tools today – the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and the Windows 7 Compatibility Center. 22 Oct 2009 16:53:34 +0200 Windows 7 http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Compatibility.htm http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Opera10.htm Oslo, Norway – September 8, 2009 – Opera Software’s newest browser, Opera 10 with Turbo, was downloaded 10 million times during the first week of release. With record download rates, Opera 10 is already in use by millions of users around the world. 10 Sep 2009 07:17:00 +0200 Internet Browsers http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Opera10.htm http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Firefox35.htm Firefox 3.5 is the best performing browser Mozilla has ever released and delivers radically improved JavaScript performance, a new Private Browsing mode, native support for open video and audio, and Location Aware Browsing. The newest version of Firefox is more than two times faster than Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2 on complex websites. With extensive under-the-hood work to support new technologies, Firefox 3.5 is the most powerful and complete modern browser and helps upgrade the Web experience. 30 Jun 2009 19:53:12 +0200 Internet Browsers http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Firefox35.htm http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Win7RC.htm Just a quick hands up for our readers that Microsoft has finally published the Windows 7 Release Candidate publicly. Users from all over the world can download both the 32-bit and the 64-bit edition of the Windows 7 Release Candidate to their computer systems. The very same announce page that was published accidentally weeks ago is now showing once again containing the instructions on how to download the release candidate. 6 May 2009 07:32:00 +0200 Windows 7 http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Win7RC.htm http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/OfficeSP2.htm Microsoft today ( 28.04 ) released Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007, which the company says boosts performance to programs such as Outlook by as much as 35 percent and adds support for a broader range of file formats including Portable Document Format (PDF) files. 29 Apr 2009 08:50:36 +0200 Microsoft Office http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/OfficeSP2.htm http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/ThemeCreator.htm It is now easier than ever to create professional-looking themes for any Sony Ericsson phone. A major new release of Sony Ericsson's popular Themes Creator tool is now available delivering a simplified three-step workflow, three editing modes and a clean new UI. In addition, the tool supports importing color palette files from Adobe® Kuler, Adobe's web-hosted application for exploring, creating and sharing color combinations. 21 Apr 2009 10:45:17 +0200 Mobile http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/ThemeCreator.htm http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/IE8-Released.htm Internet Explorer 8 was finally released on 19 Mart 2009! It's free for download for Windows XP and Vista. Do not download it if you're using Windows 7 Beta. The official site ( and the place for download ) is this site. It's much faster than IE7. 19 Mar 2009 19:55:26 +0200 Internet Browsers http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/IE8-Released.htm http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Panels.htm That’s right. Today Sony Ericsson announced the mid-March availability of 4 new original panels. So, we’ve got a CNN panel for news, sports and weather reports, a Skype panel, the function of which should be obvious; a rather gambling-oriented Mytopia panel and a “On the Road” panel, which gives you access to the music player, easy call handling and navi tools via conveniently-sized shortcuts. 16 Feb 2009 20:00:00 +0200 Mobile http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Panels.htm http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Google.htm If you often work with Google Docs, you probably want more ways to access your docs quickly. A recent example is the handy Docs gadget in Gmail that shows a list of your recently accessed Google Docs right from within Gmail. Today, we'd like to introduce a desktop-based, better looking cousin. 26 Dec 2008 08:12:10 +0200 Google http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Google.htm http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Android.htm Following in the footsteps of the iPhone, Google's Android seeks to do Apple one better by completely opening up its mobile platform, and by making it available for free to all handset makers and mobile network operators. The first Android phone, the cunningly named T-Mobile G1, arrives this month. And while it may be a while before we fully understand the impact that an open platform will have on the mobile market, make no mistake: Android is now a first-class player in this crucial industry, taking its place alongside Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and iPhone. 14 Oct 2008 08:20:07 +0200 Mobile http://mediar.hybridfire.net/News/Android.htm