Opera 9.50 Kestrel Adds BitTorrent Peer Exchange

OPERA the popular multi-platform browser has supported BitTorrent for some time now. After more than a year of development, the release of v9.50 Alpha sees the introduction of a uTorrent compatible Peer Exchange feature which will hopefully help to speed up transfers and reduce tracker load.

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Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in

ADBLOCK PLUS, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app … or it could be if it became really popular.The widespread adoption of ad-blocking software could totally atomize online advertising. But, the numbers still aren’t high enough YET to spur a counterattack by the big guns, like Google.

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Mozilla’s plan for improving Firefox user retention rates

ONLY HALF of the people who install Firefox become long-term user. Mozilla is putting together a strategy that aims to improve Firefox user retention rates.

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Chinese pirates busted with $500 million of software

Chinese police and the FBI worked together to take down two Chinese piracy groups recently, which they credit with being in possession of counterfeit software valued at half a billion dollars.

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