The biggest day ever for mergers of stock exchanges provoked demonstrations in the actions of the operators of New York to Sydney and Sao Paulo as those arising from transactions in shares advance as the engines of growth.
Deutsche Boerse AG’s announcement that it’s in talks to buy NYSE
The biggest day ever for mergers of stock exchanges provoked demonstrations in the actions of the operators of New York to Sydney and Sao Paulo as those arising from transactions in shares advance as the engines of growth.
Translate Google Hits iPhone App
Globe-trotting iPhone users rejoice – the official Google Translate for iPhone is now available in the App Store.
[iTunes link] seems a bit like the existing application Android (launched January 2010) in functionality – allowing users to speak to translate into 15 languages and translate words and phrases in more than 50 languages. You can also listen to your translations aloud in 23 different languages. One can also zoom in on text easier to read, and – a feature that Android is missing.
This formal application essentially echoes the web application functionality, allowing you to view the results in the Dictionary of simple words, and check the translations favorites and history (although not online) .
The iPhone, however, lacks some features as the Android has: namely the translation and the experimental SMS Chat mode, which is supposed to allow you to speak with someone nearby in another language.
Firefox 4 Beta Adds “Do not follow” Feature
Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 11, the latest version of the popular web browser. It not only adds several performance improvements and stability, but it implements a “Do not track” list to enhance user privacy.
Earlier this month, Mozilla has announced its intention to implement “Do not forward” in Firefox 4. Resurrected by the FTC in August 2010, “Do not follow” list essentially allows users to opt-out of monitoring the behavior of advertisers using cookies and other browser-based methods.
“When the function is enabled and users turn it on, the websites will be notified by Firefox the user wants to withdraw from the OBA,” Mozilla’s privacy lead Alex Fowler said in a recent post. “We believe that the approach based header has the potential to be the best for the web in the long run because it is clearer and more universal opt-out mechanism as cookies or blacklists.”
Mozilla supports the approach HTTP header sends more universal opt-out signal to websites. You can check the technical details if you want, but the goal is the same: to give users the ability to tell advertisers that they do not want to be tracked for targeted advertising.
The development of Firefox 4 approaches the finish line. Firefox 4 Beta 10 has been notified two weeks ago, and it should not be long until a release candidate debuts.
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