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How to Access DB2 for z/OS Data From the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal

whitepaper Either the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client or the Internet Explorer web browser can access the TEPS to display and/or act upon various aspects of the operational environment, with workspaces and views showing information from operating systems...

Tags: mainframes

[15 May 2008]

Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

Conduct Research Safely on the Web

whitepaper One conducts the research by using a Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, but one might not understand some of the seemingly confusing technology issues surrounding the Web. To understand these Web technology issues, it's important...

Tags: web browsers

[11 May 2008]

Photos: HTC unveils its Diamond touch

Photo The device runs a version of the Opera browser instead of Internet Explorer. Peter Chou (pictured above), president and CEO of mobile maker HTC, has announced the latest smart phone in its Touch touchscreen series at a launch event in London.

Tags: touchscreen, iphone, htc

[07 May 2008]

Malicious software overtakes friendly apps

News Web browser Mozilla Firefox was also found to have contained more vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer in the report. For the first time, the amount of malicious software being released has outstripped that of legitimate software, according to...

Tags: software, malware

[09 Apr 2008]

Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace

News Adoption of Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has also been sluggish with just 30 per cent of enterprise users on it 15 months after its launch. Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is taking a while to catch on, with just...

Tags: microsoft, xp, firefox, ie7

[02 Apr 2008]

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

News Firefox, which has been slowly chipping away at the lead held by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, recently announced that it had passed the 500 million download milestone. The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes...

Tags: mozilla, internet explorer, beta, firefox

[11 Mar 2008]

Microsoft unveils web tool betas

News With Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari out there, we really don't need another web browser these days," said Keith Smith, director of product management for Microsoft's developer tools division.What we need to do is to focus on the 'scenario...

Tags: microsoft, beta, silverlight, ie

[09 Mar 2008]

Financial Services Firm Upgrades Browser to Enhance Security and User Productivity

whitepaper The company has been a longtime user of the Microsoft Internet Explorer Internet browser and wanted to improve network security, reduce support calls, and simplify the way its 5,500 employees worked with more than 140 browser-based applications.

Tags: network security

[29 Feb 2008]

Cannot Send a Web Site Address Link From Internet Explorer

whitepaper Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a command to send a URL link to an e-mail message recipient. One must manually copy and paste the Web page URL from the Web browser into the body of an Outlook e-mail message.

Tags: web browsers

[28 Feb 2008]

Internet Explorer 8: Beta to be launched

News According to the Internet Explorer blog, the next version of Microsoft's web browser is set for release in the first half of the year. Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in...

Tags: microsoft, beta, internet explorer, browser

[26 Feb 2008]

AOL pulls plug on Netscape browser

News But Microsoft fought back with Internet Explorer, winning Netscape's dominant market share. He said: "While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not...

Tags: aol, netscape, windows, firefox

[02 Jan 2008]

Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta

News Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer remains the dominant web browser, the open source rival has achieved a critical mass of users - Firefox has been downloaded more than 400 million times - and it's now common for designers to make sure their...

Tags: firefox, beta, microsoft, mozilla

[21 Nov 2007]

Mac OS X Panther Hacks: Browse Different

whitepaper Chances are, the user is well and truly settled in to Apple's Safari web browser, having jumped ship from the now-stalled Internet Explorer (IE) for Mac the user found so impressive back in OS 9. IE was good for its time - in many ways, even better...

Tags: web browsers, firefox, browser, apple

[25 Oct 2007]

Security and Usability: Privacy Analysis for the Casual User With Bugnosis

whitepaper It uses some of the same Internet Explorer facilities as Privacy Bird, and presents results with a similar balance of approachability and charm as opposed to technical detail. Like Privacy Bird , Bugnosis is a benevolent snoop: it taps into the...

Tags: privacy issues, privacy, bird, tool

[17 Oct 2007]

Skype Hacks: Make Calls From Your Web Browser

whitepaper The third method uses the Skype Toolbar, which is an add-on application for Internet Explorer. There are three ways in which the user can make calls directly from within a web browser. The first method uses the URL prefix skype: (note the missing...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, method, browser, skype

[17 Oct 2007]

Dynamic HTML: Style Sheet Property Reference

whitepaper This table tells at a glance the version of Internet Explorer (IE), pre-Mozilla Netscape Navigator (NN), Mozilla (Moz), Apple Safari (Saf), Opera (starting from version 7), and W3C CSS specification in which the term was first introduced.

Tags: html, style, term, css

[10 Oct 2007]

Firefox Hacks: Fix Web Servers to Support Firefox Content

whitepaper It also explains what to do about broken versions of Internet Explorer. In addition to the big world of XUL-based applications, there are a number of configuration and security content types that can be delivered to the browser.

Tags: web browsers, pages, configuration, browser

[10 Oct 2007]

Ajax Hacks: Detect Browser Compatibility With the Request Object

whitepaper However, continuing with the tradition established by IE 5.0, recent vintages of Internet Explorer implement the software as an ActiveX object named Microsoft.XMLHTTP or Msxml2. Browser compatibility is an important consideration.

Tags: web browsers, named, object, ajax

[10 Oct 2007]

Microsoft unchains IE 7 for XP users

News Microsoft is to allow users of Windows XP to download Internet Explorer 7 without having to gain Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Previously, to download Internet Explorer 7, users had to authenticate to WGA.

Tags: ie 7, firefox, wga, microsoft

[09 Oct 2007]

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