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British Red Cross charity gets into gaming with Traces of Hope ARG
Games: normally we think of giant space marines punching aliens, military strategists fuelling their megalomania or Italian plumbers munching on ‘shrooms. They aren’t normally used to deliver a serious message.
However, the British Red Cross reckons it can give players a good time as well as raising social and political awareness. It has hooked up with Enable Interactive to launch the first ever charity online Alternative Reality Game (ARG), called Traces of Hope.
Firefox Mobile launching in weeks!
We’ve speculated about Firefox Mobile for a while, and even had some hints from Mozilla that it’s coming sooner than expected. Now there’s word that it could be launching in just a few weeks.
Firefox Mobile confirmed for early launch
Mozilla’s chairman just spilled the beans on plans for the Firefox web browser on mobile phones, explaining that it’ll launch “well before” the company’s stated goal of 2010, so it’s bedded in, has a large user base, and is an “effective product” by the end of the decade, in line with their aims.
Firefox Mobile coming sooner than expected?
Demos of the mobile version of Firefox have been online for a while, but until now it seemed it would take an age to make it to handsets. Now we hear we could be using it as early as next year.
Google Chrome for Mac available now*
Google may have omitted to launch a Mac version of its IE killer/not IE killer Chrome browser and instead concentrated on the other 95 percent of the market, but some canny coders have whipped up a homebrewed Mac version in the interim.
iPhone web browsing hits new record
Apple’s huge success with the iPhone 3G has pushed the device’s share of all web activity to a record level, cementing its position as the fourth most popular browsing platform in the world.
Google launches open-source Chrome web browser
UPDATE: After a bit of a delay, Google Chrome is now available to download. Get it for Windows here.
Internet Explorer just got a new challenger in the battle to become the world’s favourite browser: Google’s ultra-advanced Chrome browser, launching to the public today.
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