Opera Mini, the new browser for the iPhone, is known for its speed, but with an accuracy of your pages are displaying his obvious problems. Browser accurately conveys the structure of the text and tables, which is why many elements of the page are not visible. For example, a screenshot from the site NYTimes.com.

Leaves its mark and run pages through your own server Opera. All fonts are replaced with Helvetica, images lose much as the code page translation of HTML into the internal language Opera OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language). As a result, significantly worse functionality JavaScript, and SSL encryption generally become unusable. These results clearly contrasted with the desktop version of Opera, which reflects the page quite accurately. Yes, downloading is much faster, but do we need a speed of such a price, that is the question.

Opera Mini for iPhone poorly managed and with the test Acid3, check compliance with the browser standards HTTP, HTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Unicode, SVG and SMIL. Of the 100 points Opera Mini scored only 74, which is considered unimportant result. Safari Mobile, which Opera is planning to compete, gaining 100 points out of 100.

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Opera Mini, the new browser for the iPhone, is known for its speed, but with an accuracy of your pages are displaying his obvious problems. Browser accurately conveys the structure of the text and tables, which is why many elements of the page are not visible. For example, a screenshot from the site NYTimes.com.

Leaves its mark and run pages through your own server Opera. All fonts are replaced with Helvetica, images lose much as the code page translation of HTML into the internal language Opera OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language). As a result, significantly worse functionality JavaScript, and SSL encryption generally become unusable. These results clearly contrasted with the desktop version of Opera, which reflects the page quite accurately. Yes, downloading is much faster, but do we need a speed of such a price, that is the question.

Opera Mini for iPhone poorly managed and with the test Acid3, check compliance with the browser standards HTTP, HTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Unicode, SVG and SMIL. Of the 100 points Opera Mini scored only 74, which is considered unimportant result. Safari Mobile, which Opera is planning to compete, gaining 100 points out of 100.

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Opera Mini for iPhone: Only in expediting happiness

Opera has announced that Apple has finally approved the browser Mini for sale in the App Store. It should appear there today. Importantly, the browser will be completely free of charge. It supports iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (in classic mode with twice the pixels).

Opera Mini was filed before March 23. Not everyone believed that Apple would approve it, because it is capable of a serious competitor to Safari, especially given free of charge. It is interesting that Mozilla is so convinced that Apple would not approve of Firefox for the iPhone, which did not even submit it for consideration. Perhaps now in Mozilla reconsider their position.

Opera Mini is interesting in that it does not use the engine WebKit, but the compression scheme used remote: all the requested user page first processed at the server, Opera, and compressed to 90% in size. In Opera, argue that the Mini is six times faster than Safari when working in 3G-networks. In Opera Mini is a search on the page, which is not in Safari.

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Particularly curious comrades who bought iPad last weekend, have already noticed that the file system, there are indications that Apple has prepared for us in the near future. These are: two new models of iPhone (iPhone3, 2 and iPhone3, 3), the new iPod Touch (iPod4, 1) and a iProd2, 1, which can be iPad second generation. Model iPhone3, 2 – is probably the one that appears in June .

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The company nCircle interviewed security professionals, some smart, they are most vulnerable for use in the enterprise. 57% of respondents named the iPhone, 39% – the device on Android, 28% – BlackBerry, 13% – Symbian.

Leadership iPhone in this list is especially strange, given that Apple is constantly working on the corporate appeal of his brainchild. In the iPhone 3GS been added hardware encryption, and various administrative functions, including remote. However, according to COO nCircle Andrew Storms (Andrew Storms), all this is ineffective and insufficient.

"Many agree that Apple is still doing only the bare minimum in matters of corporate security … Hardware encryption is almost immediately was broken. This is not a course of action that security professionals expect from the suppliers.

In the camp Android Not everything is in order. Signing the application is not necessarily, often they can provide access to the file system. As for BlackBerry, these smart phones are quite safe, thanks largely to a robust hardware encryption.

Many companies in the U.S. do not advise their employees bring to the work of iPhone , and some specifically prohibit doing it.

Via Electronista

Flurry Analytics analyst firm has published a new study of the American market of console video games. The volume of this market games in the past year fell from $ 11 to $ 9.9 billion, but Apple, whose devays long compete with portable consoles, yet increased in this area.

So, iPhone OS share in the common market of video games – in relation to consoles incl. – over the past year increased from 1% to 5%.

Apple Earnings from sales of games from the App Store grew by as much as 500%, so that the market is portable gaming Apple gets 19% of revenues from total sales, ahead of Sony PSP.

"Our research has shown that such indicators platform iPhone / iPod touch will cause other players in the market to reckon with it. Obtain your 5% 10-billion industry in just a year and a half – this is serious progress "- wrote in his report Flurry Analytics.

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Soviet singer Edward Gil, who in 1970 performed the comic song without words from one of interjections ("tro-lo-lo") and which recently has gained unprecedented popularity in the English speaking internet thanks to YouTube , has its own application for the iPhone ( link to iTunes) . It is not such a beautiful and professional, but fun. Gil can be arrayed in a triangular hat, you can make dance and even swallow chicken.

According to the author, the application can be downloaded for free "in honor of International Day trololo.

Gil himself in an interview with Life News said that flattered news about their own mobile program.

Via Mashable

Norwegian developer submitted for approval to the App Store browser Opera Mini, known for his speed. At the International Congress of the mobile month ago Opera announced that the browser "six times faster than Safari». In this regard, it will be very interesting to see whether he would endorse Apple or not. Politics Apple in this regard is far from liberal, and especially with regard to browsers and other competing programs.

«Opera has made enormous efforts to create a customized, stylized, functional and highly responsive browser, which will most fully realize the capabilities of the iPhone for web-functional Opera, – says co-founder Jon von Tetzchner (Jon von Tetzchner). – The result of this work is the web browser for iPhone ».

Opera Mini browser is already released for Android and BlackBerry, though, so far only in beta. There is also a version for Windows Mobile.

In the first version of Opera Mini for iPhone will not function approximation pinch, but it is likely to appear in the future.

Via TechRadar

U.S. operator Sprint has published on the YouTube video ad titled "Translate your iPhone to 4G» (Make Your iPhone 4G). It demonstrated a device called Overdrive, which allows iPhone and generally any device with a Wi-Fi to connect to high-speed 4G-network Sprint. In the clip claimed that using Overdrive exchange data with the iPhone is 10 times faster.

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