People are making an increased reliability for the mobile phones to deliver the maps and directions on the go. Data released by the company ComScore on Friday discovered that about 14% of the mobile phone users in US or about 33.5 million people made the access over maps on the devices, about once in a month over three months and it ended in April. This is about 44% rise in 2009.
The mobile users retrieved maps to 1-3 times in a month and it rose to 47% to 17.1 million and the accessing of maps in one week rose to 60% to a number of 11.6 million. People who accessed maps on the mobile devices did 87.2% from car or vehicle, 17.2% while biking or walking and about 17% for public transportation.
The common kinds of maps had the graphical ones with turn by turn directions, which used about 60% for mobile map users. The graphical maps without directions were used by 50% of people and turn by turn directions without map were retrieved by 47% people. People get the turn out of the mobile phones for map and directions on the go.
People are turning to their mobile phones for getting directions and maps. The travel season is up and the mobile company officials say that they expect a lot of users for accessing maps and location based local searches for getting navigation and searching the relevant information globally.
There is a growth in mobile maps and navigation is driven by the smartphone users for opposing the features to phone users. Smartphone is a mobile device, with operating systems like: Apple�s iOS, Microsoft�s Windows Mobile, RIM�s Blackbetty, Palm�s WebOS, Symbian and Google�s Android. Smartphone users make the access to maps through an app and 19% did so by using mobile users.
The mobile phone users appreciate the convenience of accessing maps and the directions. About 87% of the mobile navigation users access maps and directions while driving and this indicates the rise in sophistication of smartphones, which poses challenge to dedicated GPS systems.
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Firefox browser gets nine bug fixes and crash protection
6/24/2010 4:17:54 AM
Mozilla has made the patching of eight flaws, inclusive of the critical susceptibilities of version 3.5 and 3.6 of Firefox browser. The rating by Mozilla gives indication that the attackers can not make exploitation of the errors to run code and install the software, which needs no user interaction apart from the usual browsing.
These flaws had a moderate rating, which means that the quoted critical vulnerabilities work out in uncommon configurations or need the user for performing complicated steps. Mozilla has made announcement on the newest addition of crash protection to Firefox 3.6.4, which aim at making the browser running when a plug-in application fails.
The results from beta testing illustrate Firefox 3.6.4 for significantly lessening the number of Firefox crashes, which are experienced by users watching online videos or playing games. When there is a crashing of plug-ins or freezing while using Firefox, the users can enjoy uninterrupted browsing by refreshing the page.
Firefox offers the crash protection for Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and Apple Quicktime on Windows and Linux computers. The support for the plug-ins and operating systems will become available in future Firefox release.
Firefox users are encouraged for upgrade of the free by making use of the �Check for Updates� function in the Help menu or by visiting the Firefox website.
Mozilla has made the patching of eight flaws, inclusive of the critical susceptibilities of version 3.5 and 3.6 of Firefox browser. The rating by Mozilla gives indication that the attackers can not make exploitation of the errors to run code and install the software, which needs no user interaction apart from the usual browsing.
These flaws had a moderate rating, which means that the quoted critical vulnerabilities work out in uncommon configurations or need the user for performing complicated steps. Mozilla has made announcement on the newest addition of crash protection to Firefox 3.6.4, which aim at making the browser running when a plug-in application fails.
The results from beta testing illustrate Firefox 3.6.4 for significantly lessening the number of Firefox crashes, which are experienced by users watching online videos or playing games. When there is a crashing of plug-ins or freezing while using Firefox, the users can enjoy uninterrupted browsing by refreshing the page.
Firefox offers the crash protection for Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and Apple Quicktime on Windows and Linux computers. The support for the plug-ins and operating systems will become available in future Firefox release.
Firefox users are encouraged for upgrade of the free by making use of the �Check for Updates� function in the Help menu or by visiting the Firefox website.
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