Installing a bunch of new stuff for a less tech-savvy person just leads to future "Where's My ... Fill In The Blank?" calls. Here's how to set someone up to solve their own dilemmas.READ»
Feel like your attention span operates at an inverse rate to your broadband speed? Here's how you can give the good stuff on the web the attention it deserves.READ»
Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer has been known as Internet Exploder for some time, due to its sluggishness and out-of-date feature set. But the new IE9 beta is netting millions of downloads. Is the curse finally broken?READ»
Think about your iPhone's New York Times or Facebook app. They don't feel like an installed program--they're much less clunky--nor a website, which is anything but native. Apps are some lighter in-between. Now Microsoft is trying to bring that same concept to Windows 7.READ»
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 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»
Firefox Home isn't the introduction of Mobile Firefox (aka Fennec) we've been waiting for, but it is a pretty great tool for iPhone users who use Firefox on their PCs. READ»
Chrome is snatching Web browser marketshare left and right, and the newly released beta version should keep users migrating from Internet Explorer and Firefox. It's the fastest version yet in a browser already known for speed.READ»
Is Apple loosening its despotic grip on the App Store? Opera Mini, a very successful competitor to Apple's own Mobile Safari, has just been approved and is available now in the App Store.READ»
It's taken longer than it did (probably) to train up Jack Black in the dark arts of tubby-chub kung fu, but DreamWorks Animations' first virtual world for kids, is to launch today in the U.S.. Kung Fu Panda World is $10 ...READ»
Today at Microsoft's Mix conference in Las Vegas, the company showed off the next generation of their venerable (and oft-maligned) Web browser, Internet Explorer 9. It's a huge step in the right direction, but it will literally ...READ»
Word's just leaked, before a formal announcement, of a new super-light, text-only version of Facebook designed for simple cell phone interactions. It looks like it's designed to further Facebook's penetration into daily life. And it ...READ»
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»
Microsoft's just previewed the Office 2010 productivity suite. It seems MS is responding to the challenge of Google Docs with a full browser-based system that expands on Office 2007.READ»
In the wake of various antitrust cases brought against it in Europe, Microsoft won't be shipping the Internet Explorer browser in the European release of Windows 7. Minor change that this is, does it indicate that IE is really on ...READ»
The European Union's taking a strict line on anti-competitive behavior by two giants of the computing industry: Intel and Microsoft. This week, Microsoft is wriggling to try and fend off an E.U. ruling against it, while the chip maker ...READ»
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»
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»
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