This week's mobile industry news podcast from The Fonecast takes a gloomy look at HP's job losses, the end of the Cisco Cius tablet and the growth in Android malware - before cheering up with encouraging news from Orange, Yahoo! and Sidecar.
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Yahoo! has launched a new web browser called Yahoo! Axis. It’s currently available for Apple iOS devices and as a plug-in for HTML5-enabled desktop browsers such as Firefox 7, Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome.
Features include visual previews of results, a custom homepage and a ‘connected experience’ that lets consumers start their search on one device and finish it on another.
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Device detection and web optimisation business 51Degrees.mobi has expanded its portfolio of solutions to include PHP support.
This means developers and owners of PHP-based web sites can now discover whether the visiting device is a tablet, whether it’s a smart phone and what the screen size is before automatically adjusting the online content.
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Openwave Systems, well-known for its mobile browser technology, has agreed to sell its mediation and messaging product businesses to Marlin Equity Partners.
The businesses will then be renamed as Openwave Mobility and Openwave Messaging, while Openwave’s remaining business unit will be renamed Unwired Planet.
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Good Technology has introduced a secure web browser for Android devices.
It’s called Good Mobile Access and forms part of the company’s Good for Enterprise secure mobile access solution for businesses.
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