Technology

Norway has released Opera 9.5 web browser last week for Linux, Mac, and Microsoft computers. The new browser includes new Opera Link features that allow you to bring your favorite bookmarks with you everywhere you go. It allows you to work with the Opera desktop browser and the Opera Mini browser for cell phones.

The new browser also adds a note-taking ability. By logging in, you can jot down shopping lists or copy directions for access on another computer or handset.

MySpace has become the hottest social-networking site on the internet even beating out Facebook. Members are going to have to deal with a makeover that is being called MySpace 2.0. They are using the new face of MySpace will take six months and will be used to widen their appeal and bring in even more people.

If successful, the digital makeover could signal the next stage of growth at what is already one of the world’s most popular websites. MySpace anticipates an influx of social-networking neophytes and businesses to its new-and-improved site.

A brand new version of the Firefox browser is ready to be released Tuesday with upgrades on speed, design, and security. Several of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve the bookmarks.

The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new “Places” feature lets users quickly access sites they recently bookmarked or tagged and pages they visit frequently but haven’t bookmarked. There’s also a new star button for easily adding sites to your bookmark list — similar to what’s already available on Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 7 browser.

U.S. officials will be facing a problem in the program that has been designed and set up to help television users to switch from analog to digital next year. An official from the Commerce Department told House lawmakers that they need to contribute more money to mail out all of the $40 government coupons. The coupons will be used to subsidize converter boxes that users will need to make the switch.

Nintendo will be releasing several USB devices for their Wii console. They have released advertisements on their websites asking for a hardware/software tester that can will work out of the company’s Redmond offices in Washington State.

Among the successful applicants duties will be: “creating and executing a test plan for Wii’s USB devices.” Our first thoughts were a USB hard drive, but Nintendo has repeatedly denied claims it was even considering one. Earlier today, we reported that Nintendo of Europe’s managing director had dismissed the hard drive space as an issue only “geeks” were interested in.

CEO Steve Jobs will be releasing the brand new 3G iPhone and will be officially announcing a new software platform for the upgraded phone at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday.

According to reports the new iPhone will have new features one of the most anticipated being GPS. It will also be given a thinner casing and an “improved virtual keyboard with haptics,” similar to multi-touch technology. Many consumers are hoping the the new 3G iPhone will be priced $50 - $100 cheaper than the first iPhone – which currently sells at $399 for the 8Gbyte and $499 for the 16Gbyte.

AOL said that it will start to provide access for European customers to its web ad-selling unit Platform-A. They hope that this will give them more resources and time to create a shop for buying online ads all in one easy step.

The platform, which was created last year and has stumbled in the U.S., allows advertisers to make purchases across its ad network. In Europe, it will align AOL’s existing advertising operations there, which include Advertising.com, German Web-ad firm Adtech and British affiliate network buy.at.

A team of Japanese scientists were able to give a paralyzed man the feeling of how it would be if he could walk again. The man – who has not walked over 30 years – volunteered for an experiment at the Keio University in Japan.

In the experiment the man put on headgear that had the ability to sense brainwaves that were connected to his legs and arms. He was able to ‘walk’ again by imagining it as a character in Second Life – a very popular virtual world.

Google launched their new Google Site Search today. The new program is a re-branded version of the Google Custom Search Business Edition. Site Search helps to provide businesses with a way to offer Google search on their own personal web sites.

“Search continues to be the way people find information,” said Google enterprise product director Matt Glotzbach. “It has really taken over as the navigation paradigm for the Web. We’re really set on addressing that and creating a hosted search offering that’s accessible to everyone.”

Microsoft told clients that they need to be careful when using the Apple Safari web browser because they are sure to face certain dangerous and unwanted system intrusions. The flaw being called the Safari Bug will allow attackers to run their unauthorized software on a victim’s computer and will fill the computer with dangerous files that will be executed at will. These files will appear be normal to everyday users.