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Google ends Internet Explorer 8 support on Google Apps

Publié: septembre 15, 2012, 6:37pm CEST par Martin Brinkmann

Last year Venkat Panchapakesan, Google Vice President of Engineering announced the company's plan to limit support to modern browsers across Google Apps. To support modern web apps, support for browsers not supporting technologies like HTML5 had to be discontinued. Examples given at that time included desktop notifications or drag-and-drop file uploading, which both require browsers supporting HTML5.

For that reason, Google made the decision to support only the current and previous major version of a web browser. When a new major version of a browser gets released, support for the third oldest version gets discontinued automatically.

The policy change started on August 1, 2011 and moved several previously supported browsers to the no longer supported heap. Back then this included Internet Explorer 7, Safari 3 and Firefox 3.5.

Soon, Internet Explorer 8 will be added to that list as Microsoft prepares to release IE10 with its Windows 8 operating system on October 26, 2012. Google will discontinue support for IE8 on that day, as the company notes in a new blog post on the official Google Apps team blog"

Internet Explorer 10 launches on 10/26/2012, and as a result, we will discontinue support for Internet Explorer 8 shortly afterwards, on 11/15/2012. After this date users accessing Google Apps services using Internet Explorer 8 will see a message recommending that they upgrade their browser.

The change leaves Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users in a predicament. Since there is no version of Internet Explorer that they can upgrade to from version 8, they are left with an unsupported web browser. This does not mean that there are not options to resolve the issue, but depending on the workplace, they may or may not be available to users.

The most obvious option is to use a supported web browser instead. Installing the latest version of Chrome or Firefox on the system should do the trick. Depending on company regulations however, this may not be an option at all. If you are not permitted to install third-party browsers on the system, or if IT won't install them for you, you are left with an unsupported web browser when accessing Google Apps.

There is, however, another option that some Internet Explorer 8 users may want to explore. Google Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer 6 to 9 that makes available the Google Chrome browser in Internet Explorer. The technology is available as a beta version right now, which may prevent installations on many systems. Once installed it will automatically kick in when it detects tags on a website that indicate that Google Chrome Frame is supported.

Discontinued support on the other hand does not necessarily mean that you can't use the browser at all when you access Google Apps. You will receive a notification when you do, but access is not prevented automatically. Some features, on the other hand, may not work properly or at all in the browser.

Gmail's new look for instance is not working at all in unsupported web browsers. Google detects the browser version and redirects all unsupported browsers to the basic HTML interface of Gmail. Features that may not work fully include desktop notifications, Offline access (only available in Chrome) or Calendars in Internet Explorer 7 and previous versions.

The majority of features and apps should work just fine in Internet Explorer 8 for some time to come.

Are you affected by the change? If so, are you planning to do something about it?

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Motorola Droid Razr HD Developer Edition is coming

Publié: septembre 15, 2012, 6:22pm CEST par Mihaita Bamburic

Motorola recently introduced the new Droid Razr HD family of smartphones, and to top off the recent announcement the Droid Razr HD Developer Edition looks ready to join the group.

What you will get is exactly the same device as the more "common" Droid Razr HD with an unlocked bootloader thrown into the mix. The result? A modding-friendly Motorola smartphone, and if the older Motorola Droid Razr Developer Edition is of any indication there will be no warranty and a hefty price tag.

The Developer Edition is currently limited to the Droid Razr HD, leaving the Maxx again out of the picture. Even though the lack of a warranty has not been clearly mentioned, it should come as no surprise since Motorola clearly mentions the following when unlocking the bootloader: "Once you get the unlock code, your device is no longer covered by the Motorola warranty".

Interesting proposition? From a modder's point of view, yes.
HP's next attempt at a smartphone could target the developing world

Publié: septembre 15, 2012, 12:23am CEST par Tim Conneally

After acquiring Palm, releasing a scant few smartphones, then terminating the business and open sourcing webOS, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman now says the company isn't done with the smartphone business yet. In a television interview this week, Whitman said her company "took a detour into smartphones" and that it has no other option but to release a smartphone because in many developing markets, that is the primary computing device.

This is something we've heard from all kinds of technology companies and international development groups for the last few years, following more than a decade of attempts at bringing better computing capabilities to emerging markets. In many of these places, the notebook computer simply did not exhibit the same impact that mobile communications devices did.

This has proven to be especially true for many African markets, and HP has had a long interest in establishing itself as a leader in Africa by actively collaborating with both governments and NGOs on issues of education, economic development, healthcare, and communications. The company first began developing its African presence back in 1994, and set up offices in Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia, countries which have among the highest GDPs in Africa.

Then, one year ago, HP announced it had opened offices in Angola, Botswana, Congo, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda, and said it expected more in Ethiopia, Mauritius and Mozambique by the end of last year.

At the time, these were the ten fastest growing economies on the continent, and erstwhile CEO Leo Apotheker said, "Fast growing economies represent a significant long-term business opportunity for HP and an important component of our growth strategy."

The mobile market in Africa would be a good start for HP, since rapidly declining device makers BlackBerry and Nokia still command the greatest consumer interest in the strong South African, Zambian, and Nigerian markets. In Nigeria, approximately 60 percent of Web searches come from mobile devices.

Chinese company Huawei could be a competitor for HP in the low-cost smartphone market, as its IDEOS became the best-selling smartphone in Kenya thanks to the manufacturer's partnership with Safaricom.

Though Whitman did not single out Africa specifically as the target for a new HP smartphone, the conditions of the various African markets, and HP's current presence in them would make it a good time.

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