Google updates Chrome

Google released a new version of its Chrome Web browser yesterday, as the search giant continues its efforts to get a foothold in a market dominated by Microsoft, reports Reuters.

The new Chrome represents the first major update of the software aimed at the general public since Google entered the browser business six months ago.

It offers Web surfers faster performance and a handful of new features, such as auto-filling of personal information on online forms and a new way for users to drag around tabs of different Web pages within the browser window.

Public health concerns and scientific evidence for risks from cellphones and other wireless devices have been published in the journal Pathophysiology, says MSNBC.

Research professor and editor Martin Blank, PhD (associate professor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons), says: "This special issue of Pathophysiology is about the human body's sensitivity to EMF signals in the environment, for example, EMF effects on DNA, effects on the brain from cellphone radiation, and how EMFs in the environment may lead to Alzheimer's disease, dementia and breast cancer.

“The scientific evidence tells us that our safety standards are inadequate, and that we must protect ourselves from exposure to EMF due to power lines, cellphones and the like."

Media company Marvel Entertainment signed a worldwide agreement with Gazillion Entertainment to allow the video game publisher to make multiplayer online games, based on Marvel's characters, reports Reuters.

Privately-held Gazillion expects to launch its first Marvel-themed game, Super Hero Squad, in 2010. The game is targeted at a young audience.

Gazillion will also develop and publish Marvel Universe, a multiplayer game for personal computers and consoles.

HTC (High Tech Computer) regards 2009 as crucial to the promotion of its 3G handsets in the China market, and the company expects its handset sales in China to double this year compared to a year earlier, according to company president and CEO Peter Chou, states DigiTimes.

China's issuance of the 3G licences earlier this year opened a great deal of business opportunities for HTC due to its ability to produce mobile devices supporting TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and CDMA 2000 technologies, Chou highlighted.

Sales of HTC's TD-SCDMA handsets in China, which are being carried out by its subsidiary Dopod, in cooperation with China Mobile Communications, have so far been satisfactory, said Chou, noting China revenues accounted for 4%-5% of HTC total revenue in 2008.