Opera Releases Beta 3 Version of Opera 10

Opera has announced the release of its Beta 3 release of the Opera 10 browser. The company says this version is ready for "heavy work" on the web. Opera has run over 10 million tests on the beta and has received plenty of feedback. They say performance and stability were prioritized in this version.

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Google Does Some AdWords Experimenting

Google has been messing around with AdWords ads on search results a bit this week. Earlier this week, you may have started noticing that the ads have been pushed into the left, making for results pages feeling a bit more compact. Presumably, the move was to inspire more clicks. The sponsored results are now closer to the organic results, and may be noticed by searchers…

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New Features Added for Seesmic Web

One of the more popular Twitter web apps, Seesmic Web, allows you to process your Twitter messages in an "email-like interface"... essentially it's a desktop app for your browser, minus a few bells and whistles. Recently though, they've added a few extra bells, they are as follows:

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On2 Shareholders File Lawsuits To Stop Google Deal

On2's shareholders - or at least a vocal subgroup of them - are not at all happy about the planned Google acquisition.  Two lawsuits have been filed to stop the deal, with both complaints alleging that On2 more or less served itself on a silver platter. Google offered to acquire On2 for 60 cents per share (or $106.5 million in all), which represented a 57…

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Smartphone Sales Up 27%

Global mobile phone sales reached 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, a 6.1 percent decrease from the second quarter of 2008, according to a new report from Gartner. Smartphone sales were a bright spot for the industry, surpassing 40 million units, a 27 percent increase from the same period last year, representing the fastest growing segment of the mobile devices market.

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