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iFive: Apple's Record Finances, India's Own OS, EU Versus MS, China Censors Nobel Online, Google's Car

Tell you why you might like Mondays: Our brief summary of the early news might distract you before work....READ»

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Google Chrome Updates to Version 6, Slims Down Even More

Google Chrome is two years old, and with the new sixth stable release, it's got new features like form autofill and extension syncing, plus a new, sleeker look.READ»

Apple Brings In-Browser Apps as "Extensions" to Safari

Apple's newest incarnation of its Web browser, Safari 5.0.1, has a new extensions feature along with it, bringing a whole new level of in-browser widget power, including HTML5 goodness. READ»

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»

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Microsoft Gets Steve Jobs' Back, Decrees H.264 as Its Video Web Standard

What? Microsoft and Apple seeing almost eye-to-eye on something? Yes...it's true and concerns a bit of a hot topic on the Web at the mo: Video standards. After Jobs' Adobe take-down, MS has said it'll only support H.264 video in ...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»

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»

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Google's Play-Dumb Browser Campaign for Chrome

Google has been pushing its Chrome browser hard, even buying those ubiquitous TV ads. Now the search giant has launched a Web site called What Browser? to accompany the campaign. The first step to getting Chrome converts, Google ...READ»

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Browser Wars: Firefox to Hit One Billion Downloads Today

Firefox has been nipping at Microsoft Internet Explorer's heels since 2004, and today the browser is passing a milestone: One billion copies will have been downloaded. That's in total, across all the versions made. Now, Mozilla isn't ...READ»

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Internet Explorer 8: Microsoft's Biggest Loser

At a security conference yesterday in Vancouver, a hacker exploited a security hole in Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 8 in under two hours, taking control of a Sony laptop running an internal build of Windows 7. IE8 was launched ...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»