Orange is collaborating with Wikimedia Foundation to offer access to Wikipedia without any charge in Middle East and Africa.
This feature would be applicable on mobile devices. Accessing internet on the mobile phone is a popular mode of communication for users in African markets.
Orange said that this is the first such initiative across the world. It is not clear how many mobile internet users Orange has in these markets.
Wikipedia spoke about this initiative: “Wikipedia is an important service, a public good, and so we want people to be able to access it for free, regardless of what device they’re using. This partnership with Orange will enable millions of people to read Wikipedia, who previously couldn’t.”
One thing worth considering is that this service goes against the principles of network neutrality. Just that in this particular case it is being done for a good cause.
Opera Software has updated their Opera browser for desktops.
The latest stable release is Opera 11.61.
Opera 11.61 comes with a bunch of bug fixes and an update to the default Speed Dials, allowing better local content.
Google is not really known for keeping consistency across their product and we can now see it with the Gmail mobile app for the Android ICS platform.
Google already uses the labs branding for experimental features on their web and mobile apps.
And they are offering similar features on the Gmail app on Android ICS devices. But they are calling them Experiments.
Two experiments have been added:
Enable full text search: This would get the phone to index all the content in your mails to make them accessible from the Google search feature.
Enable drag and drop contact chip: You can drag and drop contacts between to/cc/bcc fields which composing emails.
Bajaj Auto has launched a new bike from their subsidiary KTM in the Indian market.
Duke 200 is priced at around Rs. 1.2 lakhs.
The company said: “The launch of ‘Duke’ is one of the many steps in our association with KTM over the last five years. Between Bajaj Pulsar and KTM ‘Duke’ we intend to further strengthen our position in sports motorcycle segment in India.”
Bajaj aims to regularly launch products from KTM stable in the Indian market. Though for now, we can only expect one launch per year.
Bajaj is selling KTM bikes through their pro-biking showrooms which are now catering to this brand.
The New York Times has released code on GitHub that adds collaborative features on WordPress editor.
This code is also compatible with TinyMCE text editor which is used in several other CMS platforms.
They call this code ICE (Integrated Content Editor) and it is designed to provide functionality similar to a word processor when it comes to multi-author documents.
NYT spoke about this code:
When you’re working in a collaborative environment as we and a lot of journalistic organizations are, you really need that ability for multiple people to touch a piece of copy, and for those changes that everyone has made to be catalogued and archived and shown, so that there’s a record of who’s done what to who, when. No one on the Web had such a thing, because most bloggers, when you think about that, are smaller operations than most newsrooms.
A demo is available here.