Gadget And High End Technology

Nokia does renewal at the virtual mall, Ovi Store. Updates done on the user interface become more friendly. This virtual mall also enrich the collections and add some new features.

Various popular applications and games can be downloaded, among others foursquare, Angry Birds, Need for Speed Shift and Real Golf 2011. Ovi Store plans to offer a variety of exclusive applications, including Audiotube, Tesco and others along with favorite applications like fring, Shazam, and Asphalt 5.

Ovi Nokia Maps has also released the latest beta version that is available for download. Ovi Maps beta adds visibility to the train lines, trams and subways in 85 cities around the world, real-time traffic, good safety warnings during active navigation or not, the visibility of parking areas and gas stations, as well as speed limit warnings.

Moreover, users can also use the search facility location has been enhanced and updated each other with information on how to divide their location immediately via SMS or email to another mobile phone that has a browser

In the near future, Microsoft will launch the beta version of Internet Explorer browser 9 (IE9). The launch will be held at an event in San Francisco in response to competition from Chrome, Firefox and Safari. IE9 will be improved from the previous version, especially on graphics issues. If this can be realized, later IE9 will have a sophisticated graphics than many competitors.

In previous March, Microsoft has released the first platform with HTML5 IE9 images that enable GPU-powered and enabled hardware acceleration that supports browsers such as text, images, background, video and audio. Microsoft official explained on their blog: hardware acceleration is needed on this browser if you want to get IE9 with high graphics.

IE9 presence in the realm of competition makes the other competitor start to make their new browsers. Some time ago, Firefox is planning to create a browser-based game. After this, IE9 want to wait for a surprise from the Safari and Opera.

Twitter users originating from mobile phones increased by 60 percent since last April. This coincided when Twitter introducing Twitter application for iPhone. According to one of the founder and CEO of Twitter, Ec Williams, until now his mikroblogging service has been registered and nearly 145 million users have increased by 40 percent since four months ago.

Of the 145 million Twitter users, Williams said that 16 percent of all new users to start using these services through mobile devices. Nearly half of all users are accessing the service via mobile devices regularly.

“The decision to develop and or purchase an official Twitter client plays a large role in this growth,” he explained in a blog post, which quoted by Gigaom, Friday (3/9/2010). What is interesting is that based on statistics provided by the founders of Twitter in his post, visitors to the site Twitter.com almost equal to the mobile users like the iPhone or BlackBerry when put together.