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What Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang Should've Learned From Firefox In 2005

Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly watched Jerry Yang blow his top when presented with a browser that put a Yahoo competitor front and center. Seven years later, Yahoo finally got around to launching a browser of its own. READ MORE›

Twitter Launches Ads For Small Businesses, Google, Facebook Track Users On Safari, Amazon Overtakes Samsung As #2 Tablet Seller

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E-Readers Don't Have Anything On These Books

E-readers work dandy for straight stories, but some books demand the traditional treatment: lush photos, glossy pages, and a heft that commands considered travel. God bless the flip-worthy, full-color coffee-table book. We've picked a few of our recent favorites.READ MORE›

Apple Rumor Roundup: New MacBook Airs, The Perilous Future Of MobileMe, And More

Apple fanatics are timing the arrival of the new MacBook Airs, mulling the meaning of the new browser-only boot, and pondering the future prospects of MobileMe and iWeb in the iCloud era. Plus more on new iPhone cameras and this year's somewhat disappointing Back To School promo. READ MORE›

Is Social Sexier Than Sex?

Social.com is for sale, and since opening bids start at $5 million it could easily surpass Sex.com's $13 million price. But here's the catch: URLs themselves may not be long for this virtual world. READ MORE›

iFive: RIM PlayBook Reviews, PC Sales Slump?, Intel Embraces USB 3.0, Spotify Preps For U.S., Safari Gains "Do Not Track"

"Dawn: When men of reason go to bed." Although we'd add a rider to that saying: "But not before reading our summary of the early news."READ MORE›

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 MORE›

Major Flaw in Apple's Safari Browser Gives Hackers Access to Personal Information

Apple may have a reputation as a security leader, but it's not entirely accurate. Its OS can be hacked like any other (at hacking conventions like Def Con, Mac OS has not proven significantly more secure than Windows), and now, ...READ MORE›

Forget iPhone 4, Here's What Steve Jobs Didn't Mention During His WWDC Speech

Today's WWDC speech by Steve Jobs was in some ways, surprising. Despite a veritable armful of rumors, Steve mainly talked about a handful of tech, with emphasis on the new iPhone 4. So what did he leave out, and when may it come true ...READ MORE›

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 MORE›

2009: The Year Mobile Web Use Exploded

Mobile Web usage has been on the upswing ever since the iPhone leaped onto the stage. But new data form Opera suggests it's not just the iPhone that's delivering the Internet to smartphone users. Opera, in its Opera Mini format, is ...READ MORE›

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 MORE›

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 MORE›

Google, Apple May Suffer Anti-Trust Action for Sharing Board Members

Apple and Google may have more in common than the Federal Trade Commission would like. The companies share two members of their board of directors, Eric Schmidt and Arthur Levinson. According to antitrust laws, the presence of ...READ MORE›

iPhone King of Mobile Web with 50% Share

Do people have a pent-up desire to surf the Web from their phones? Yes, if the experience isn't a pale substitute for desktop browsing. Based on some fresh data from mobile advertising marketers AdMob, the one smartphone to deliver ...READ MORE›

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 MORE›

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Internet Explorer 8 Out: Clever and More Secure

Internet Explorer: Whether you like it, loathe it or take legal action against it, it's still a force to be reckoned with in the browser wars. And today, Microsoft let loose the full edition of the software's latest ...READ MORE›

Our 4 Favorite Things About the New Safari 4 Browser

While Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is languishing in the news today, thanks to E.U. antitrust rulings, Apple is riding high with news of the public test of version 4.0 of its Safari browser with 150 new features. Here are ...READ MORE›

Why the EU Shouldn't Force Microsoft to Install Other Browsers

In a move to both punish Microsoft for its anti-competitive actions and to benefit the consumer, the E.U. is requiring the software giant to give Windows users the option to use other browsers instead of Internet Explorer. But this ...READ MORE›

When Will Microsoft Get a Clue?

It's been a tough year for Redmond: bricking Zunes, class-action suits, and the people-hate-Vista debacle. You'd think those three catapstrophes would be enough to make the PC giant shape up. You'd be wrong. Microsoft [MSFT], it ...READ MORE›