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Opera has released a beta version of its Mini 5 Web browser for Android-based smartphones, the company said on Thursday.

Just like the versions of the beta for other phones, Opera Mini 5 for Android beta compresses data by up to 90 percent before sending content to the phone to speed up browsing over low-bandwidth data connections, according to the Norwegian browser company.

Other features of the beta version include tabbed browsing and speed dial, a feature that provides direct access to favorites via thumbnail images on the start page. There is also a password manager that can be used to ...

The expected batch of patches wasn't the only thing Windows users got with Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update. The set of fixes was accompanied by a warning about an unpatched zero-day exploit for Internet Explorer. IE 8, however, is not vulnerable to attack -- perhaps one more reason not to fall behind in major browser updates.

This month's Patch Tuesday arrived with a rather unwelcome security surprise.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) had expected things to be somewhat sedate; however, instead of two vulnerabilities that it expected needed patching, it got hit with four, including a new zero-...

The jury is still out on Ubuntu's new color scheme, but there seems to a consensus on the one it just replaced: awful. If Ubuntu wanted companies to take it seriously, it should never have made its "prime product offering look like the artwork from a pumpkin pie box," said Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. "It's not just ugly -- it's fugly-ugly. Even in Soviet Russia.

Color is not typically a topic of much discussion on the Linux blogs, but in recent weeks, it's been drawing a lot of attention.

Why, you ask? Simple: Ubuntu recently announced a major change to its longstanding "Human" earthton...

I've happily used RSS readers for years, but I'm not only an information junkie, I'm a professional information junkie. But I'm one of those people who sees the technology as appealing to techno-savvy folks rather than the mainstream. It's much easier to type a Web address than to understand and manage Managing Really Simple Syndication and Atom subscriptions.


So I was intrigued to see a Google Labs effort called Google Reader Play that in my opinion succeeds, at least partially, in making this technology more approachable. It wraps the reader experience in a full-screen view with a filmstri...

A Colorado man was indicted on charges of attempting to corrupt a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) database, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Douglas James Duchak, age 46, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, knowingly transmitted code into the Colorado Springs Operations Center (CSOC) server, which loads data received from the federal government's Terrorist Screening Database, and the United States Marshal's Service Warrant Information Network.

Duchak worked at CSOC between the years 2004 and 2009 as a data analyst, responsible for updating information that was received from the government...

Earlier this week, BoomTown visited MySpace headquarters in Beverly Hills, Calif., to interview its new co-presidents, Michael Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, and get a look-see at its evolving revival plans to stop the social-networking ship from sinking further.

Thus, I got a tour of a storyboard-like room at MySpace, where the team is trying to formulate the "discover and be discovered" motto it is now using, which is pretty much its old motto restated.

Can the old become new again?

In fact, a lot of the plan does sound a lot like shades of the past at MySpace, focusing on a younger, arti...

SAN FRANCISCO--For game developers whose industry experience predates not just Facebook but even Mark Zuckerberg, you might expect that abandoning making big, complex games for simple titles like Farmville and similar social projects would be anathema.

But to hear a panel of respected industry veterans who spoke before a packed house in a huge room at the Game Developers Conference here Tuesday, the truth is exactly the opposite. In fact, to these four speakers at least, this may be the opporunity of a lifetime--making a transition from working on $25 million console-level games that take ye...