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Mozilla shows the seriousness working on a mobile browser market by releasing a beta version of Firefox 4 platform mobile to Android and (Nokia) Maemo. The browser is much faster than the claimed default browser to compete with Android 2.1 and WebKit on Android SunSpider 2.2.

“The initial version of Firefox made for Android is very slow compared to the default browser. Performance is important in a mobile browser and our efforts to improve it paid off already. Latest beta version firmer and we have a plan makes it even more quickly,” wrote Matt Brubeck on the Mozilla blog .

Mobile browser, codenamed Fennec 2.0 that uses the same basic layout with the Firefox browser desktop 4 beta. However, Firefox 4 beta use the latest Javascript and the latest extensions, called JagerMonkey. This beta version also is equipped with Sync to sync Firefox bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, and data entry in the Firefox browser on different platforms.

According to Brubeck, the presence of Firefox 4 beta is the answer to that carried Apple’s WebKit technology and Google. According to him, Webkit that make a web site can be optimized on the mobile platform is very good, but forcing a new web built web-only with Webkit. It is considered dangerous, such as ten years ago when Internet Explorer controls much of the market and most sites use a specific mark-ups only for IE.

“We think people should be able to choose the best browser for mobile such as on his computer. More and more options to encourage all browsers continue to innovate and learn from each other so that everything continues to improve his speed,” he said.

The first version of Firefox Mobile available for Nokia Maemo on the Nokia N900 since January. Alpha version for Android catch up since April. Now, Firefox 4 beta can be downloaded to your Nokia N900 and Android on top of version 2.0 in www.mozilla.com/en-us/mobile/downloads

Google search suggestion was not forever we must follow.
For according to a study, suggestions Suggestion Google through the Google features, often shifting meaning of words that is sought from the true meaning.

“Google is probably intended to help people in search, but from the perspective of public discourse, this is worrisome,” said Professor Dominique Brossard, communication experts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is involved in this research, the university web site.

According to Brossard, suggestions Google suggestion divert its users from getting real results, to the search results that are popular.
For example when a user searches for the word ‘tiger’ then Google even offers a search for ‘tiger woods’. We want to find the word ‘animal’ and was just typing the letter ‘f’, Google even suggest ‘facebook‘.

“Sergey Brin and Larry Page created Google to filter the search results, partly based on the most popular sites. It means Internet users will be offered in the search results to that of the most popular search results than the proffered representative for information science,” says Brossard.

In research conducted since October 2008 until September 2009 that, Brossard and four colleagues from Wisconsin-Madison studied Google’s data about articles related to nanotechnology.

They found that the discussion of nanotechnology also experience blurring. Because when you type the word ‘nanotechnology’ suggestion suggest Google search for ‘nanotechnology and health’ in the top position. Therefore, most people fail to get the big picture of nanotechnology.
“By clicking on Google’s advice, you will reinforce the suggestion ‘nanotechnology and health’ to remain above. But health is only a small part of this nanotechnology,” says Brossard.
Dietram Scheufele, co-researcher Brossard, say, Google is the most popular search engine with a market share of about 64 percent, followed by Yahoo (16.3 percent).
“In addition to indexing and providing search results, Google should also have an active role to guide and direct the search through the relevant direction.”

Nanotechnology itself, generally is the research and development associated with engineering materials that have nanometer-scale molecular size (10 ^ -9).

Nano materials dealing with properties not seen in ordinary matter. Economic experts predict, in 2030 the market volume of nano materials, ranging from electronics to cosmetics, is approximately U.S. $ 3 trillion or about USD 27 thousand trillion.

The Nexus One is a smartphone that uses Google’s open source Android mobile operating system. The Google Nexus One is the most anticipated Android phone ever, for both good and completely irrational reasons.  The Google Nexus one feels like a solid phone because the surface on the back does not feel slippery and very soft, warm and not prone to fingerprints at all. After all, the design is very nice and quite minimalist, and perhaps most people will find it pleasing to look at and to hold.

The Nexus One was originally codenamed the HTC Passion. A European phone with the same hardware has been documented, called the HTC Bravo (now HTC Desire), which corresponds to the specifications of Nexus One. However, the Bravo features HTC Sense and an optical trackpad rather than a trackball, physical buttons rather than the touch sensitive buttons, FM radio and lacks the noise canceling dual microphones in the Nexus One.

The Phone comes with a very fast processor that hits the magical 1Ghz clock speed and with an AMOLED high-resolution display. It is also equipped with the latest Android operating system from Google that packs things like voice-to-text and the best GMail client out there. The irrational part is that the hype is totally exaggerated. The Nexus One is clearly superior to the iPhone 3GS some technical points, namely, as the processor and screen.

Unfortunately for Android fans, we can not say that Nexus one buries the iPhone 3GS because the 3GS still has an advantage in terms of applications, reactivity and the overall experience – while the Nexus One has a technological edge and is an unlocked phone that works on any GSM carrier.