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Shortly thereafter, Firefox’s new channel system will be implemented. Firefox 5a2 will be introduced as the first Aurora build, and we should also see a Firefox 6 Nightly build. While we we’re not sure where they came from, one Sören Hentzschel seems to have unearthed the new Nightly and Aurora logos (see above), along with new About Firefox dialogs (after the break).
In other news, if you want to take a sneak peek at the new ‘channel changing’ technology that will be introduced in upcoming Firefox builds, head to about:config and create a new string called app.update.desiredChannel — the value doesn’t matter. Then open Help > About Firefox and you’ll be able to switch channel, but it doesn’t do anything just yet (image after the break). Here’s hoping that Firefox channel switching is smoother than Chrome.
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The Europeans appear to be interested in working on their own home-grown mobile OS, and apparently are thinking of using Symbian for that. Symbeose, a consortium of major technology and research organizations, has been created to propose development projects to enhance the Symbian platform. Symbeose stands for “Symbian — the Embedded Operating System for Europe.”
Europe is becoming increasingly nervous as Android and Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iOS continue to dominate the smartphone market worldwide.
“There’s a concerted effort on three different fronts where European carriers and manufacturers, mainly carriers, are sounding alarms about not wanting an Apple-Google duopoly,” Marc Beccue, a senior analyst at ABI Research, told TechNewsWorld.
“France Telecom’s CEO has said he believes Apple and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) are Trojan horses to capture loyal customers,” Beccue added.
One of the three areas the Europeans are working on is Symbian, the operating system from Nokia (NYSE: NOK). They set up the Symbeose consortium to develop the OS further.
The other two European efforts are the WebinOS and Mosquito projects.
Android and iOS dominate in the United States and Western Europe, while Symbian and BlackBerry lead in other regions, Strategy Analytics reported.
Could the Europeans be shaping up for a war with the United States in the mobile device sector?
Many thought Nokia had turned its back on the Symbian operating system when it struck a deal with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) in February to use Windows Phone 7.
The company shut down the Symbian Foundation and killed the foundation’s public relations budget, Andrea Heuer of Consort Partners, the foundation’s public relations agency, told TechNewsWorld.
However, Nokia seems to want to keep Symbian alive. In fact, it released two new Symbian smartphones — the E6 and the X7 — on Tuesday.
“Nokia has internalized Symbian and plans to use it for their lower-end smartphones,” Mark Beccue, a senior analyst at ABI Research, suggested prior to the Tuesday releases.
That could mean a big change in the role of Symbian.
“The Symbian that existed the past few years — an open operating system available to other handset manufacturers — now ceases to exist,” Beccue told TechNewsWorld.
Nokia did not respond to TechNewsWorld’s requests to comment for this story.
The Europeans appear to be interested in working on their own home-grown mobile OS, and apparently are thinking of using Symbian for that.
Symbeose, a consortium of major technology and research organizations, has been created to propose development projects to enhance the Symbian platform.
Symbeose stands for “Symbian — the Embedded Operating System for Europe.” The consortium consists of 24 organizations from seven different countries.
Symbian was identified by the Artemis Joint Technology Initiative as a vital focus for European-centric mobile software development under an initiative sponsored by the European Commission.
The EU kicked in 11 million Euros, or just over US$15 million, to fund development projects proposed by the Symbeose consortium. Another 11 million Euros came from consortium members.
The consortium will target future technologies for inclusion in Symbian. It will also work on making Symbian a platform for multiple types of mobile Internet-connected devices.
The Symbian Foundation did not respond to TechNewsWorld’s request to comment for this story.
Nokia’s revitalization of Symbian may change the situation.
“I think it would be ludicrous for Symbeose to move forward, as it would simply be the EU’s funding research and development for Nokia now,” ABI Research’s Beccue opined. “If that’s now the case, they should call it funding for Nokia.”
Artemis Joint Technology Initiatives are long-term public-private partnerships implemented under Article 171 of the EC Treaty.
There’s a lot more waffle, which boils down to this: Europe conducts various joint public-private sector research programs on technologies it deems to be strategic. These include mobile communications in general and Symbian in particular.
Alun Foster, program manager at the Artemis Joint Undertaking, declined to respond to queries from TechNewsWorld.
WebinOS consists of 22 partners from academic institutions, industry research firms, software companies, handset manufacturers and auto manufacturers throughout Europe.
The project, launched in September 2009, has a war chest of more than 14 million euros, or almost US$20 million. It is scheduled to end October 2013.
The WebinOS project aims to define and deliver an open source platform and components for the future Internet, which will enable Web apps and services to be used and shared securely over devices ranging from PCs to TVs to mobile devices to in-car units.
It’s aiming at a one-size-fits-all future Web platform, in other words.
Stephan Fraunhofer, the project coordinator for WebinOS, did not respond to TechNewsWorld’s requests to comment for this story.
The Mosquito project is funded by the EU.
It will identify and document fragmentation issues that could prevent the full development of mobile applications and services. It will support the standardization of mobile Internet services and promote collaboration in the industry.
Mosquito will support the cross-sector convergence of IT, telecoms and media in mobile Internet applications and services.
Launched in September 2010, the project has a budget of 700,000 euros or more than US$970,000. It is scheduled to end August 2012.
The Mosquito project’s aim is to “strategically win the race for the Future Internet Service,” its website says.
While the other two EU projects don’t say anything about challenging American supremacy in the mobile market, it’s likely they share the same goal.
Still, how much of a threat will they be?
“At best, these moves will just keep Symbian around a bit longer than otherwise,” Allen Nogee, a principal analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. “Europe hasn’t been a leader in the smartphone space.”
With the pace of change in the mobile market being so rapid, nothing is set in stone.
“I’m not even sure that Android or iOS will be the market leader five or 10 years from now,” said Nogee. “Also, no one OS will ever succeed around the world.” 
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So at Microsoft’s MIX developer conference today in Las Vegas, Microsoft VP of Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore did a little HTML test showing IE9 on a future version of Windows Phone. And it appears to blow the Nexus S and iPhone 4 out of the water.
What’s odd is that I can’t even get the Nexus One I have here to run it that well. Want to try it yourself? What sort of magical sorcery has Microsoft unleashed? Dunno. But you can give it a shot at this link if you want.
Oh, and our other question is this: How many major updates will Android see before Microsoft gets its “Mango” update out the door? Zing! [Geekwire via WPCentral]
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Rather surprisingly, it turns out that Mozilla’s numbers could be significantly wrong — and if they’re not wrong, the factors that Mozilla uses to tabulate an add-ons final score should definitely be made more transparent.
In the first set of tests, Palant shows that FlashGot’s position in the top 10 is probably due to a fault in Mozilla’s testing setup, and that add-ons can perform very differently depending on which operating system they’re being tested on. In the second analysis, Palant uncovers an irregularity that doesn’t seem to have an obvious cause — but it could be due to an I/O bottleneck on Mozilla’s test machines. Basically, even though performance testing of Read It Later is disabled because of a bug, it still (somehow!) manages to record a 14% slow-down on Windows 7.
Palant concludes both analyses by scolding Mozilla for going public with the performance data before its testing methods had been confirmed accurate. It definitely looks like Mozilla has been more than a little reckless, considering the importance of Firefox’s add-on ecosystem.
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Creative Suite 5.5 lets designers and developers deliver mobile apps on Android, iOS, the BlackBerry Tablet OS, and other platforms. It also lets them create browser-based content across screens using HTML5, and deliver premium video content, casual games and rich Internet applications through Adobe Flash Player. Adobe’s approach with CS5.5 means devs can now write browser apps that don’t require Flash.
Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) on Monday announced Creative Suite 5.5, a mid-point update between major releases of the suite.
In a tip of its hat to the realities of browser display, Adobe has included HTML5 support in CS 5.5.
With CS 5.5, Adobe is also targeting the mobile platform. Further, it has unveiled a subscription model and is changing the timing of rollouts of Creative Suite versions.
“In the past, we have had 18-month CS release schedules between our milestone releases,” Adobe spokesperson Vanessa Rios told TechNewsWorld. “Now, we’re moving to a schedule of milestone releases every two years, but with mid-cycle releases in between that are focused on keeping customers ahead in the areas where technology is shifting.”
The Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection consists of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
These products can be purchased separately or as components of one or more of the five Creative Suite editions.
CS5.5 Premium Suite lets designers use Adobe InDesign together with the integrated Folio Producer toolset to add interactivity to page layouts for publication on tablet PCs. They’ll be able to add video, audio, panoramic views, 360-degree object rotation, and integration of HTML and HTML5 content, among other things.
Creative Suite 5.5 lets designers and developers deliver mobile apps on Android, iOS, the BlackBerry Tablet OS, and other platforms. It also lets them create browser-based content across screens using HTML5, and deliver premium video content, casual games and rich Internet applications through Adobe Flash Player.
Adobe’s approach with CS5.5 means devs can now write browser apps that don’t require Flash, Al Hilwa, a program director at IDC, told TechNewsWorld.
Adobe’s support for HTML5 in CS 5.5 is the latest in a series of steps the company has taken since it clashed with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs over an open letter he wrote criticizing Flash and expressing support for HTML5 back in April of 2010.
However, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) then threw their weight behind HTML5, and Adobe bowed to the inevitable. In August, it shipped the Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack as part of the Dreamweaver CS5 11.0.3 updater; then in October, it released its own HTML5 video player. Last month, Adobe launched an experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool, Wallaby.
Still, devs won’t be able to write once in CS 5.5 and publish in both Flash and HTML5.
“Dreamweaver has enhanced HTML5, but there is no way to double-publish,” Adobe’s Rios said. “Wallaby, which is on Adobe Labs, is an option to create in Flash Professional and then publish out to HTML5.”
Although Apple banned Flash from its operating systems following Jobs’ outburst, Adobe appears to remain hopeful of getting back onto devices from Cupertino.
Adobe is offering a new Photoshop Touch SDK that lets devs build tablet apps that interact with Photoshop from Android, BlackBerry PlayBook and iOS devices. Further, Adobe has announced three new iPad apps for Photoshop: Adobe Color Lava; Adobe Eazel; and Adobe Nav.
The iPad apps were developed with the SDK “as examples of what can be done with this new interaction between Photoshop CS5 and mobile and tablet devices,” Cari Gushiken, spokesperson for Adobe Photoshop, told TechNewsWorld.
Adobe is speaking with developers, artists, hardware and software providers, and other partners about using the SDK to create their own apps, and “they are excited about the possibilities and the potential,” Gushiken added.
Apps written for iOS can now run on that platform because the Adobe AIR runtime environment is allowed on iOS, IDC’s Hilwa noted.
This will “let apple give developers what they need or are demanding without having to retreat from Jobs’ inflammatory comments,” Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld.
In future, perhaps Apple might seek to kiss and make up with Adobe, he speculated.
“If Apple is thinking rationally, it will likely allow Flash at some point soon,” Hilwa remarked. “But I get a sense that this [Apple ban on Flash] is political and philosophical more than rational.”
With CS5.5, Adobe has launched a subscription-based pricing plan. Subscribers can use Adobe Photoshop for US$35 a month, Adobe Design Premium CS5.5 for $95 a month, and the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection for $130 a month.
That beats Adobe’s purchase prices. The CS5.5 Master Collection, for example, will be priced at about $2,600, and CS5.5 Design Premium at about $1,900.
The subscription plans “make the latest Creative Suite features available to a much wider range of customers,” Adobe’s Rios said, adding that Adobe doesn’t expect the subscription plans will cannibalize sales.
The subscription plan is “a natural entry point for developers or companies new to Creative Suite or who want to stick a toe into Adobe’s waters without making a significant initial investment,” Pund-IT’s King remarked.
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And yes, you can already make Windows 7 behave this way if you like. Over at CodePlex, there’s a little program called Aura that parks itself in your system tray and automatically adjusts your window borders to compliment your wallpaper images. The effect is quite nice, and you can try it out by minimizing your windows and cycling through your theme’s wallpapers (right click on your desktop and choose next desktop background).
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