Opera Turbo 10 used by 3 million users

The months that followed its publication, the Opera browser Opera Turbo 10 was used by 3 million users to view some 688 million pages when compressed.

With Release 1 September 10 Opera, the Norwegian publisher Opera Software has played the card of innovation with a rather exciting service called Opera Tubo. With Opera Turbo, a proxy server is asked to perform a compression of Web pages that can go up to 80%. This service can be activated or not according to the wish of the user, and it should be noted that in exchanges with a secure site, the server's response does not occur.

Opera Turbo is for users connected to the Internet in mobility situations or do not have much bandwidth. This service is completely free and only return to a faster browsing finally a slight deterioration in rendering certain images, which can still cover their most attractive aspect via the context menu. Similarly some content like Flash videos do not load after clicking. Otherwise, the presentation of the original site is preserved.

According to Opera Software, a month after the release of Opera 10.0, almost 3 million users have used Opera Turbo to inspect approximately 668 million web pages and compressed. The editor sees the sign of a real response to a need and the savings in bandwidth that can become really palpable in cases of pre-paid connections.

Shattered Horizon compatible with DirectX 9

Following their announcement earlier this week, the Finnish Futuremark return to the configurations required to run their first title, Shattered Horizon. This action game scheduled for later this year on PC is distinguished by being one of the few that does not work on machines DirectX 9. To take advantage of his fights are not serious, it is imperative to have Windows Vista / 7 and therefore DirectX 10 and 11.

Jaakko Haapasalo, producer of the game, seems aware of the restrictive aspects of the thing, but says that today "many solutions very affordable to move to DirectX 10 and DirectX 11. He considers that the release today of Windows 7 is for many players the opportunity to abandon Windows XP ... We'll see if he will be proved right!


Minimum System Requirements

• Windows Vista / Windows 7
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 / AMD Athlon64 X2 5600 +
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1.5GB hard disk space
• Graphics Card 256MB GeForce 8800GT Type / Radeon HD 3870

Recommended Configuration

•  Windows Vista / Windows 7
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 / AMD Phenom X4 940 II
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1.5GB hard disk space
• Graphics Card 512MB GeForce GTX 260 type / Radeon HD 4870

Windows Mobile 6.5.1 as the prototype 7

It's no secret that Microsoft is preparing the operating system Windows Mobile 7, which probably will be released no earlier than the second half of 2010. With the rapid development platform Android and iPhone OS platform company, Bill Gates can continue to lose market share (down almost 30% last year). So Motorola has already announced that it stopped installing the operating system from Microsoft on their machines before the release of Windows Mobile 7.

Most recently, Microsoft has released a new version of its operating system for mobile phones - Windows Mobile 6.5, however, version 6.5 was adopted without much enthusiasm - key changes are not a lot. The inconvenience of administration with the fingers spodviglo several companies released their own desktop environments to optimize the user interface of the current version of the OS.

In an effort to make the system appeal, Microsoft released an updated Windows Mobile 6.5.

Sony Ericsson Susan with Android OS

According to unofficial information, Sony Ericsson Susan  mobile phone has a durable waterproof shell and 5 megapixel camera . Judging by the picture, Susan is working on what is a platform, not the standard A2 phones Sony Ericsson. The device has the key "Home", which led to the hypothesis of Android OS on this device.