Google is very careful with the design of its search page--though the look and feel may not be to your taste, Google usually only adjusts it incrementally. Now there's news it's trying something actually big--pop-over full page result previews.READ»
I'm excited to announce that i'm going to be participating in the first Mozilla Drumbeat Festival on the Future of Learning, Freedom and the Web, in Barcelona, Spain this November 3-5.Mozilla, the creators of the open-source ...READ»
Emptying your email inbox isn't nearly as fun as playing a game of "Tetris," but it's the same activity: you delete or reply to messages faster than new ones arrive. New browser extension 0Boxer adds that element of gameplay to email drudgery for Gmail users.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»
The Redmond-based search engine launched its user rewards scheme today, cunningly titled Bing Rewards. But Microsoft takes loyalty seriously -- shunning users of Google, Firefox, and Apple.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 Instant promises to save you up to 5 seconds every time you search the Web, but you'll only see those savings if you know how to take advantage of its new real-time mind-reading. Here are the must-know keyboard shortcuts for ...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»
The current debate about online privacy is passionate, complex, and dynamic. But do you know who you should probably blame for much of the root cause? Microsoft. 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»
While you were sleeping, innovation was not crying in court after being informed it was to spend time in chokey. Instead it was poring over data received courtesy of an FOIA request, picking the right smiley face, and then facing ...READ»
Cisco today announced the Cius, a 7-inch Android tablet with some pretty advanced teleconferencing capabilities. It could well become indispensable to business users.READ»
Today at the I/O conference, Google introduced WebM, a new open-source web media format that's backed by many of the industry's web giants--though not Apple.READ»
Google's annual developer conference Google I/O kicks off today in San Francisco, we're on site with live coverage of the opening keynote as it happens. Watch the live video stream on YouTube in one window, and join me, Kevin ...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»
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»
At long last, Oprah fanatics (Foprahtics? Needs work.) can spend two bucks on an iPhone app that will provide Oprah-related entertainment even while away from a television or computer. The weirdest part: it's kind of...impressive.READ»
BlackBerry is still the number one smartphone OS in the States, so a new version of the OS is a big deal--and the recently leaked 6.0 looks to bring some big changes as well.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»
Imran Sheikh the Lead Developer for Project E, just managed to stop using Adobe services and starts developing new platform for the Project E.Although no one knows that what is Project E but platform of the technology explains us that ...READ»
Elizabeth Stark is cofounder of Open Video Alliance, visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University. FastCompany.com spoke to her about the need to keep online videos from becoming just like television.READ»
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»
