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Comment By adding telephone functionality to HTML pages, innovative software developers are about to give your browser a voice. The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival of the internet.
[01 May 2008]
Comment A prime example of this is Google's support for the development of the Firefox browser. The existence of Firefox has been a significant factor in encouraging browser conformance to web standards. The reality is sadly very different, says Martin...
[03 Apr 2008]
Round-Up Until now, developers have had to be satisfied producing web apps that operate in the devices' Safari web browser to peddle their wares. It's difficult to know what to make of AOL these days. The 1990s internet fireball responsible for millions of...
[14 Mar 2008]
Comment Microsoft is trying to define a new category with software plus services that says sure, on-demand is a good thing and a big part of the future, but you will always need something more than a web browser on the premises to have fully functional...
[23 Jan 2008]
Comment Mike Smart, European product manager at Secure Computing, said: "The browser has become like another operating system. Because it can allow attackers to run code in the user's browser, the possibilities are limitless - attackers can hijack a web...
[26 Nov 2007]
AS Profile Ross is one of the people behind the Mozilla Firefox browser. At the tender age of 22, Blake Ross makes his debut in the rankings because of his potential to become one of the heavyweight Agenda Setters of the future.
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Analysis Both Stallman and Torvalds are long-term open source innovators but it isn't just an old boy's game this year, with 22-year-old Blake Ross - one of the people behind the Mozilla Firefox browser - making the list at number 49.
[12 Oct 2007]
Round-Up It's Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, which garnered a remarkable two-thirds of the vote. IE won definitively and by the time version 5 was released four years later it had become the world's most popular browser.
[03 Aug 2007]
Round-Up Exhibit A: The Weekly Round-Up - a child of the internet, veteran of the dot-com bubble, refugee of the browser wars and part of the generation which dreads the annual Christmas question from elderly relatives, 'So, what is the internet?
[27 Jul 2007]
Leader Likewise, if you're Google then it makes sense you would go for a hosted, managed security service provider (MSSP) in line with your own philosophy of an on-demand, browser-based future. Google, not content with owning the search market or with its...
[10 Jul 2007]
Comment Snooks says he sees no reason why, for example, the browser-based tills at the leisure outlets couldn't run on SuSe Linux with a Firefox browser or whether Apple Macs may be a better alternative to Windows PCs.
[09 Jul 2007]
Comment The most interesting announcement of the day was the release of a public beta of Apple's Safari browser for Windows XP and Vista. Thirdly, Apple, like Mozilla, generates significant revenues from Google by having the search giant's search box...
[15 Jun 2007]
Round-Up Pre-installed Linux (currently over 128,000 votes), Open Office pre-installed (over 92,000), FireFox installed as the default browser (over 68,000) and no operating system pre-loaded at all (over 61,000) are currently topping the wish list.
[27 Apr 2007]
Leader VeriSign heartily praised the anti-phishing technologies included in the revamped browser and for a minute Microsoft was able to bask in a light that put other concerns dogging its launch, such as some compatibility issues, into the shade.
[27 Oct 2006]
Leader For years Benioff has championed the fact you could fire up your browser, log in and you're a Salesforce.com customer, ready to go. This past week saw a lot of people talking about on-demand software as a service (SaaS).
[13 Oct 2006]
AS Profile His web aggregation tool, called my.userland.com, enables users to view multiple blogs via one browser window, known as Really Simply Syndication, or RSS. Why? Shaking up syndication Software developer Dave Winer charges onto the top half of the...
[25 Sep 2006]
AS Profile Mozilla's web browser and email software offer an open source alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Outlook, and have soared in popularity not just at home but also within offices. Why? Adding might to Mozilla
[25 Sep 2006]
Comment Even more curious, my porn spam continued and I actually had one site pop-up, unwanted, on my browser. Written on BA038 flying Beijing to London. Edited on the London to Ipswich train a week later and despatched to silicon.com via free wi-fi in...
[07 Aug 2006]
Comment It's not going to supply any desktops or laptops or anything like that, it's more of an application we will make available to our users through web technology or through a web browser. When Zalmai Azmi took the job of the FBI's chief information...
[17 Jul 2006]
Comment Added to that, the fact it is hosted online (like all AppExchange apps) means it is accessible from anywhere, from any desktop with a browser and enables users to truly collaborate. Can't fight the future, Can't fight what I see.
[31 May 2006]
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