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Week in review: 12 November 2011
13 stories you might have missed.
- The BIG browser benchmark! Chrome 15 vs Opera 11 vs IE9 vs Firefox 8 vs Safari 5 Chrome 15 vs Opera 11 vs IE9 vs Firefox 8 vs Safari 5 … which browser will be triumphant?
- BEWARE - Rogue Android apps flood into alternative markets Send premium rate text messages to get free software.
- 'Siri, will you ever come to my iPhone 4?' If you want Siri, you gotta pay for her.
- Microsoft will be happy to hear that Google is to keep Android free Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: ’Android has a patent fee. It’s not like Android’s free. You do have to license patents.’
- Firefox 8 is here Mozilla officially releases another new version of Firefox.
- Lenovo IdeaPad A1 Android tablet for $199 Looking for a tablet and aren’t interested in the Kindle Fire or the Nook? This could be worth a look.
- Why your PC gaming experience is being throttled by aging consoles Doesn’t matter how powerful your PC is, doesn’t matter how many CPU cores you have, doesn’t matter how many GPUs you have.
- Adobe listens to Steve Jobs, pulls plug on Flash for mobile Jobs: ‘Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future.’
- iOS 5.0.1 update now available for download Battery bug fix goes public.
- How to activate iPad 2 multitasking gestures on the iPad 1 Get the multitasking gestures your iPad 2-owning friends have on your old iPad … but you have to switch them on!
- iPhone owners to Apple: iOS 5.0.1 doesn't fix battery drain problem iOS 5.0.1 making the problem worse for some.
- Valve confirms Steam server intrusion Hackers gained access to usernames and password.
- Most free Android anti-malware scanners 'near to useless' Most products achieved 0% detection rate.