mobile browsers
Editor's Blog: All communications in one place
Comment Will a Sky - after the success of things such as Sky Digital and, we can only guess, Tivo- or Slingbox-style services accessible from browsers (think mobile browsers too, ultimately) -... [09 Feb 2007]
Gizmo offers VoIP calls in a flash
News Gizmo Call works with Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Safari browsers and requires Adobe Flash 9 to be installed on the computer. The plug-in, which can be downloaded at gizmocall.com, lets people call most... [31 Jan 2007]
Why does phishing work?
News Presented with a genuine Etrade email that directed recipients to a legitimate secure site with a simple, graphic-free design optimised for mobile browsers, 77 per cent of participants guessed it to be a... [03 Apr 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Google goes head-to-head with Microsoft
Comment This trend has been one of the key factors in the growth of Firefox, seen to be the most standards compliant of the major web browsers. It is doubtful whether more than gradual technical innovation in... [20 Dec 2005]
UK likes O2 shops best
News A report by research firm JD Power and Associates looked into customer satisfaction among the top mobile operators' retail stores and found O2 to be the best rated among mobile buyers and... [06 Dec 2005]
Mobility for the masses
News And he'd like to see browsers improved. It's not a question of if the mobile worker is coming but when, according to executives from Intel, Microsoft and Nokia speaking at the CTIA trade show in San... [28 Sep 2005]
Mobile browsing: Opera offers mini-me for the mid-range
News With Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser dominating desktop market share - and Mozilla's Firefox making significant inroads - Opera has eked out some success in the market for browsers that work on... [11 Aug 2005]
Ambulances turn to GPRS for better organ tracking
News Ambulances used by the Royal Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset NHS Ambulance Trusts will be fitted with GPRS tracking units, which will enable ambulance controllers to pinpoint the location of the vehicles using an application on their... [25 Apr 2005]
Windows and Linux exposed by Java flaw
News A flaw in Sun's plug-in for running Java on a variety of browsers and operating systems could allow a virus to spread through Microsoft Windows and Linux PCs. The same exploit could also be used against various operating... [24 Nov 2004]
Google dampens browser speculation
News Browsers are going to come back.We'll see a lot of innovation," said Doerr, speaking to a roomful of attendees at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. He added that as new browsers come onto the... [06 Oct 2004]
AT&T launches 'must buy music NOW' service
News Browsers can listen to 30-second samples on their phones before buying, as long as the phones support either Windows Media or RealNetworks' audio format. AT&T Wireless in the US is launching a mobile... [05 Oct 2004]
IE market share drops - a bit
News Microsoft has long held the title of undisputed champion of Web browsers but recent research shows the software giant's Internet Explorer slipping in popularity for the first time in recent memory. An analyst at... [14 Jul 2004]
Mozilla gets mobile with money from Nokia
News Even though Mozilla browsers make up only a small fraction of the market, Firefox has earned rave reviews on web logs, in newsgroups, in the computer press, and even scored a pair of prizes - all before reaching its 1.0... [21 Jun 2004]
WAP's really taken off (...at last)
News Some mobile phones can also browse conventional HTML web pages, but WAP browsers are built into even the least expensive handsets. Mobile phone users are finding new reasons to go... [09 Mar 2004]
Mobile guidelines to bar kids from adult content
News Mobile operators 3, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Virgin Mobile have responded to concerns that mobile devices with enhanced features such as colour screens,... [19 Jan 2004]