XWEBS
DATELINE Ireland, January 11th 2003
A super-fast new web browser has won a Mullingar student the top prize at this year's Young Scientist competition. The browser invented by 16 year old Adnan Osmani runs up to five times as fast as normal browsers.
It took him nearly two years and 1.5m lines of code to write it.
The browser - known as XWEBS - allows users to browse while simultaneously watching a DVD movie. It can talk to the user and will also translate a web page into the language of your choice.
Adnan's parents come from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. He is a sixth form student at St Finian's College. Adnan says he has already had interest from half a dozen companies which have stopped by to see the browser at his exhibition stand.
Among those showing an interest is Media Lab Europe, the Dublin computer research operation linked to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Unfortunately at this point that is all that is known about the new browser and as of this posting there was no information as to availability and platform compatability.
But it is exciting none the less.
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