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Internet Explorer's Market Share Slips: The Beginning of the End?

Microsoft may be being all cocky about video codecs in Internet Explorer 9, but the reality is that the browser's share of the market is on the slide. Slowly, since it's just fallen below 60%, but it's still downwards. Net ...READ»

Opera Finishes Its iPhone Browser, Apple Not Likely to Give a Damn

Opera has revealed it's put the finishing touches to its Opera Mini Web browser for the iPhone and has submitted it to Apple. Some folk on the Net are getting excited about it. But they're wrong: Apple's likely to ditch it in the "no" ...READ»

Browser Wars: Microsoft's E.U. Browser Ballot Saps IE's Marketshare

First, the European Union decided that Microsoft was unfairly monopolizing the browser market by bundling Internet Explorer in software packages. As a result E.U. users are now offered a ballot that allow them to select alternatives. ...READ»

Google Translates Multilingual Web Into One Universal Tongue: Chrome

Google's making sure that Chrome's ascendancy is a global phenomenon, using a uniquely Google trick: It's building automatic machine translation into the browser itself. Is Google trying to turn the planet into a happy chattering ...READ»

Browser Wars: Google Chrome Wins a Round, at Everyone Else's Expense

The Net browser wars have just taken an interesting turn: For the month of February, Google's Chrome was the only one to demonstrate a growth in market share. It was a tiny change, but a strangely interesting one. What's Chrome's secret?READ»

E.U.'s Microsoft Browser Antitrust Case Is History

Months ago, European lawmakers deemed that Microsoft was abusing its monopoly position (and engaging in other murky shenanigans) to push its Internet Explorer browser onto the public. Microsoft proposed a compromise. And this ...READ»

Browser Wars: Hey Microsoft, Stop Being Jealous of Firefox and Check the Math

Microsoft is obviously chock-full of nice sweet people, slaving away to make its software products all groovy...but not Amy Barzdukas. She's just been saying some very snarky things about Firefox's Billion Downloads claim. Amy, ...READ»

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European Union Accuses Microsoft of More Anti-Competitive Action

The European Union has just taken a fresh bite at Microsoft's anit-competitive business practices, and accused the company of harming "competition between web browsers" by bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows OSs. It's a ...READ»

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Can Opera Become to Mobile What Firefox has Become to the Computer?

Tuesday, Opera released a preview of Opera Mini 4.2, a mobile Web browser that works on nearly every phone. Yet with 20 million users of the Mini browser worldwide, the technology company has yet to take hold of the U.S. market.READ»

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Just when you thought the war was over...

Now with the release of Google's Chrome browser and Microsoft's IE8 Beta, a new era of browser wars has begun. Firefox, Safari and Opera have made a bit of a dent taking about 20% of the market away from Microsoft but Google's ...READ»