Research in Motion have put together a video that compares the web browsing experience on their BlackBerry PlayBook and the Apple iPad. The video shows the PlayBook loading standard web pages more quickly than the iPad, as well as displaying Flash video while the iPad simply shows an error message.
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RSS Live Links unleashes feed reader powers to Google Chrome. It can always show you a list of a website's most recent headlines with a nice extra feature: instant notifications. Live Links can be registered as an RSS reader with the "RSS Subscriptions" and "RSS Subscriptions Plus" extensions, or use the built-in feed detection facility to subscribe to feeds found in current tabs.
Microsoft Lync is the new family brand for the products formerly known as Microsoft Communications Server, Microsoft Office Communications Online and Microsoft Office Communicator, and now also includes Microsoft Lync Web App and Microsoft Lync Online.
Google announced the availability of the official app, nearly a year and a half after it first submitted Google Voice to Apple. Apple's reluctance to approve Google Voice-Google claimed that Apple actually rejected the app while Apple said it was evaluating it-led to an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission into Apple's App Store approval policies, and a deepening of the rift between the two formerly close partners.
Google plans to support Android phones with near-field communications chips in the next version of Android, which CEO Eric Schmidt said would arrive in the next few weeks. Schmidt, kicking off the Web 2.0 Summit at the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco, held up an "unannounced product" that appeared to be the Nexus S, which leaked out on Best Buy's Web site last week.
Adobe AIR Launchpad beta is a new desktop tool that helps Adobe Flex developers get started building desktop and mobile applications deployed on Adobe AIR.
The Launchpad will create a ready-to-import Flex project with your selected features implemented in a way that can be easily modified and extended.
Google’s introduced their newest search tool - Google Preview. While Google Instant gives you the most accurate search results as soon as you type your search query, Google Preview on the other hand offers a new kind of visual search result to make it even faster for you to choose the right search result.