Topic: Internet Browsers

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»

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»

Viral Blanketing

Talk about interoffice advocacy... and then some! When Rob Davis, a relatively new hire at Minneapolis-based PR firm Haberman & Assoc., was hit by a virus on his home PC, he didn't just clean up his hard drive, he started using a new ...READ»

Firefox in the Fire

Firefox, the red-hot alternative web browser, is approaching its first big test as a mainstream product. One of Firefox's best features has been its built-in pop-up blocker. Heck, sometimes it worked too well, preventing 2nd windows ...READ»

How Do You Create a Technology Revolution? By Telle Whitney, CEO, Anita Borg Institute

Learn from Mitchell Baker of the Mozilla Foundation.   In my last two blogs I talked about the winners of the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award winners, and today I wrap up this series talking about ...READ»

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»

Windows 7 Europe to Lack Internet Explorer--Is IE on the Way Out?

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»

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»

• A Week Inside T-Mobile's G1

Safari Is Junk, But Still Users Grow

According to Ars Technica, Apple's Safari Web browser--both the iPhone mobile version and the desktop version for Mac and Windows--has been slowly gaining marketshare in the browser wars. Ars takes this as a tribute to the slow ...READ»

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»

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»

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»

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»

Web Development Tips for Beginners

This article contains very useful and information for the newbies in web development industry.READ»

Web: Facebook Makes Its Move

Facebook is about to send IPO speculation into overdrive again with its latest business move. This time they are not turning away suitors. Instead, they've made their first acquisition - the company announced ten minutes ago that ...READ»

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»

• Internet Explorer 8 Out: Clever and More Secure
• The Fast Company 50 - #34 Microsoft

Nothing but Netscape

Before you strap on that mouse, let's dispense with two issues quickly: What browser should you use? And what is Java really all about?READ»

The First Google Wave Add-on Comes to Firefox - If You Only Had an Invite

An enterprising coder has already written a Google Wave add-on for the Firefox browser. (Now if only you had your Wave invite.)READ»

Xtravo Explorer 3 makes it to Browser Wars.

According to PCworld:"This somewhat different entry in the browser wars is uneven, but very interesting." Web browser XTravo Explorer surprised me. Although I can't say this free browser is going to kick Firefox off my system ...READ»

Umm... Ever Heard of Compatibility?

I just discovered the most asinine thing (and yes, I decided to share, for that is the true prerogative of a blogger, no?). Working on a Mac, I can't access AOL Instant Messenger's "Express" Web-based service or Netscape's Web email ...READ»

Jawoco.Com 2010.

Jawoco.Com is going to do much more next year as this Year ends. Few days back, Xtravo Explorer 3 OS announced as update free for One Year is a Big/Major News in the Web browser industry and not to forget the Xtravo Explorer3 OS is ...READ»

Jawoco.Com 2010.

Jawoco.Com is going to do much more next year as this Year ends. Few days back, Xtravo Explorer 3 OS announced as update free for One Year is a Big/Major News in the Web browser industry and not to forget the Xtravo Explorer3 OS is ...READ»

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»

Microsoft and Intel Fight E.U. Lawsuits Just as Antitrust Policies in the U.S. Get Tougher

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»

Google Bombing and the IRS

It's tax time, and many of us will heed the IRS' suggestion to download forms and file electronically. But as I learned, malicious black hat hackers have hijacked Google's IRS search results to deliver nasty malware. Here’s how. READ»