VLC Media Player 1.1 release candidate 1 available

The VideoLAN organization has released a new build of VLC Media Player for OS X. The version 1.1.0-rc of the player has been updated with numerous changes and fixes, including a major reworking of the VLCKit framework, CoreText-based text renderer for subtitles, and support for new codecs and enhanced features of current codecs.

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VLC Media Player 1.1 release candidate 1 available

Firefox Mobile for Android? Meet the prealpha (we did)

Mozilla’s first stab at Firefox for Android is rough and unstable, but it’s a start. (Credit: Mozilla) Android users who relish being on the cutting bleeding edge of mobile software are going to love getting their peepers and fingers on Mozilla’s latest foray into Firefox for mobile phones. Late Tuesday, the open-source browsermaker released a prealpha version of Firefox for Android .

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Adobe scraps work to bring Flash apps to iPhone

What a difference two weeks and a few words of legalese can make to the future of a widely used programming technology. In that span of time, Adobe Systems has gone from touting its technology for building Flash applications that run on the iPhone to canceling future development of that technology.

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Apple retooling WebKit for multicore chips

Google’s Chrome browser draws heavily on the WebKit browser engine project led chiefly by Apple, but now WebKit is adopting one Chrome idea: separation between some computing processes. Apple programmer Anders Carlsson announced the move, an interface called WebKit2, in a WebKit mailing list posting Thursday.

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Apple retooling WebKit for multicore chips

Chrome bug kills offline Gmail

A bug in Thursday’s update to the development build of Google Chrome renders it incompatible with Gmail offline. Users who’ve had Gmail and Chrome configured for offline use will find that Chrome crashes as soon as you log in to Gmail.

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Chrome dev gets rudimentary HTML5 geolocation

In an update to the development build of Chrome, Google on Thursday introduced a rough version of the native HTML5 geolocation API.

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