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LiMo targets the business mobile

News LiMo announced a raft of new members, the most significant being the Mozilla Foundation, which is currently developing a mobile version of its popular Firefox browser. He said: "For Mozilla, joining LiMo represents an opportunity to establish a...

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

Google lays out mobile future

News One of the winning formulas is really a phone with a full web browser. The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for some time and unveiled its own mobile operating system, Android, last year.

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News Maliouta said this was to dissuade users from finding themselves locked into a beta form of the browser, because the "remove" option would be unavailable after upgrading to XP SP3. Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service...

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News According to the company, Connected Life powers RIAs across the "multiple screens of your life" by delivering an application across a web browser, social network, desktop operating system and mobile phone.

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Microsoft claims can go it alone online

News Hall emphasised the strategic importance of Windows Live to the company, although it is a component of Microsoft's online business, one of its main purposes is to try to keep the operating system relevant in a world that has become very browser...

Tags: aol, google, yahoo, microsoft

[07 May 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

News More than a third (36 per cent) said its best feature is its integration of phone, iPod and web browser. Meanwhile, the Safari web browser was top dog for five per cent of users surveyed, and visual voicemail did it for four per cent.

Tags: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

Harrods makes a tech-savvy exhibition of itself

News This message directs people to register for text alerts about the Design Icons exhibition or to a Harrods website, via the phone's web browser, where further information can be found. Harrods is using cutting-edge mobile technology to promote a new...

Tags: barcode, camera, qr, mobile

[25 Apr 2008]

Apple patches up Safari

News Apple has released another round of security patches for its web browser this week, targeting a vulnerability which allowed a MacBook Air to be hacked and two flaws in the Windows-only version of Safari.

Tags: safari, apple, security, macbook air

[18 Apr 2008]

Security experts criticise Phorm

News These request bounce-backs would magnify any denial-of-service attack, according to Clayton, and could also create incompatibilities with browser-security measures. A browser request is first sent via a switch to a machine on the ISP network, which...

Tags: threat, ads, phorm

[18 Apr 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]

Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit

News Website attacks, which plant browser exploits to compromise users, are also becoming more a problem as they are able to target well known, high-traffic sites. A major threat is browser scripting attacks, which use web browsers to get through...

Tags: browser, rsa, phishing, botnet

[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]

Adobe gives Linux breath of fresh AIR

News It has open source development tools, including its Flex development framework, and contributed a scripting engine to the Mozilla Foundation for inclusion in the Firefox web browser. Adobe has released an alpha version of AIR on Linux and announced...

Tags: adobe, air, mac, linux

[01 Apr 2008]

In demand: Tech needs web services skills

News The growing number of browser-based and software as a service applications, along with the increased interest in service-oriented architecture to link these all up is driving the demand. Businesses need to recruit more tech professionals who can...

Tags: web services, saas, infrastructure, recruitment

[25 Mar 2008]

Mozilla chief slams Apple's Safari-iTunes move

News Mozilla CEO John Lilly has hit out at Apple, accusing the company of doing a disservice to Windows users everywhere by including its Safari browser as a default add-on installation in the latest iTunes update.

Tags: itunes, safari, apple, install

[25 Mar 2008]

Google crystal ball predicts mobile web boom

News The software shortcuts the time it takes for people to perform web searches on Google by eliminating initial search steps of finding a web browser on the phone, opening the browser, waiting for network access, and getting to the Google website.

Tags: mobile, microsoft, blackberry, google

[19 Mar 2008]

Google Sky gets <strong>browser</strong> app

Google Sky gets browser app

News Google has unveiled a browser version of its Google Sky application for people who don't want to download the Google Earth software. The browser version allows users to zoom in and out and pan around the celestial bodies, search for planets and...

Tags: google, photos, earth, sky

[14 Mar 2008]

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

News The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes more than 900 enhancements over the previous beta, Mozilla announced. The creator of the open source browser said the new beta includes improvements to performance and...

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]

BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone

News He added that making iPlayer compatible with devices without web browsers requires a lot of time and expense, so the BBC is initially focusing on browser-enabled devices, with more becoming compatible in the coming months.

Tags: apple, edge, iplayer, bbc

[07 Mar 2008]

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