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Mozilla offers first glimpse of Firefox 3.6Company takes wraps off new browser betaMozilla has released the first beta of Firefox 3.6, a minor upgrade expected to wrap up later this year.
Techworld.com Monday, November 02, 2009Inside one of the world's largest data centersCNET News gets a tour of Microsoft's 700,000-square-foot Chicago facility--a data center the
company says just might be the biggest on the planet.
CNET Monday, November 02, 2009Nokia exec talks Ovi platformNiklas Savander, Nokia's top services guy, shares his thoughts on everything from lessons learned from Apple to why the Ovi store still isn't available on AT&T's
network.
CNET Monday, November 02, 2009Libraries Give Vista Apps a Windows 7 LookDeveloper tools help assure Vista users enjoy a similar look and feel of Windows 7 apps.
Internetnews Monday, November 02, 2009ICANN Approves International Domain NamesWeb addresses will expand beyond the Roman letters A-Z and digits 0-9.
TechWeb Monday, November 02, 2009Nokia to close N-Gage platform(Telecompaper) Nokia plans to close its N-Gage
mobile gaming
platform, in favour of selling games on its Ovi Store. In a posting on the N-Gage blog, the
company said it will stop selling games on N-Gage at the end of September 2010. While the N-Gage.com site together with the N-Gage Arena and other community features will remain in operation throughout 2010, the Ovi Store will be the new central place for all the mobile games that Nokia and other publishers offer from this point forward. Nokia will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform, and will not ship any more handsets with the N-Gage application pre-installed. The Ovi Store already offers over 1,000 games and is accessible from 100 Nokia handset models in over 180 countries. Ovi offers the possibility of posting reviews of games, and Nokia plans to add more community elements to the site for gamers.
DMeurope.com Monday, November 02, 2009Alfa mulls merger of Megafon, Turkcell assets(Telecompaper) Russian investor Alfa Group is planning to combine its minority stakes in Russian
mobile operator Megafon and Turkey's Turkcell into a single
company, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing Alexei Reznikovich, CEO of Alfa's telecoms unit. Swedish operator TeliaSonera, currently a shareholder in both Megafon and Turkcell, would get a minority stake alongside Alfa and other shareholders, Reznikovich added. According to the Alfa executive, a merger of Megafon and Turkcell assets would create a
company worth
around USD 30 billion, and nearly USD 50 billion when international markets recover. Norwegian telecoms group Telenor and Russia's Alfa Group recently ended a five-year legal dispute with a deal to merge their
telecom holdings in Russia and Ukraine. Alfa and Telenor will merge their holdings in Russia and Ukraine into a Netherlands-headquartered company called Vimpelcom. Neither side will have control over the new company, which will be listed in the US.
DMeurope.com Monday, November 02, 2009TIM Brasil reverses losses in Q3(Telecompaper)
mobile operator TIM Brasil recorded a net profit of BRL 61 million in the third quarter, against a loss of BRL 12 million in the same period in 2008 and BRL 15 million in Q2. Total net revenue was BRL 3.3 billion, an increase of 1 percent over Q2 and down 2 percent compared to Q3 2008. EBITDA totaled BRL 759 million, an increase of 3.1 percent on a quarterly basis. TIM invested BRL 536 million in the quarter, up from BRL 511 million a year ago. Approximately 80 percent of this went for IT and
network. The
company ended the quarter with 39.6 million
customers, up 12.5 percent over the same period last year and up 4.7 percent on Q2. TIM had 6.3 million postpaid subscribers and 33.3 million prepaid users at the end of September. In the third quarter, the company had net additions of 1.8 million lines, representing an increase of 27.5 percent year over year and 2.6 percent over the second quarter of 2008. TIM Brasil said it
expects to close its acquisition of long-distance o
DMeurope.com Monday, November 02, 2009IBM Exec Resigns Following ArrestServer chief Robert Moffat steps down amid charges of insider
trading.
TechWeb Monday, November 02, 2009VirtualBox update fixes Windows 7 bugsThe update to Sun's virtualisation testing tool takes care of compatibility problems with the Microsoft and Apple OSes, among other
performance improvements
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