The controversial winner of last year’s Esat BT Young Scientist competition (in Ireland), Adnan Osmani, says his ‘mega-browser’ will be ready for commercialization soon. The Xwebs mega browser (some screenshots here) gives direct access to 120 search engines and incorporates five different media players for sound and video, as well as DVD functions and a talking guide named Phoebe. Osmani said he has since added 30 more audio and video features to the software, which is based on Microsoft’s IE.
When it was unveiled last year, Osmani claimed that Xwebs could increase the speed at which a browser functions by a factor of two to five times on a normal telephone line.
17 Year Old’s Browser To Be Commercialized
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The controversial winner of last year’s Esat BT Young Scientist competition (in Ireland), Adnan Osmani, says his ‘mega-browser’ will be read…
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