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LiMo targets the business mobile

News The market for full web browsers on mobile is set to grow substantially over the next three years and this provides Mozilla with a chance to catch-up with WebKit-based browsers such as those used within Safari on the iPhone and by Nokia on S60...

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

LOB Application Compatibility: Using Microsoft IT's LOB Application Compatibility Testing Processes

whitepaper Microsoft IT shares this challenge by being responsible for deploying and maintaining more than 1,500 internal LOB applications in an environment of mixed and changing operating systems, productivity applications, Web browsers, and development tools.

Tags: collaboration tools

[14 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security

Comment This difficulty has meant they have started to target broader content security issues, such as content accessed and uploaded via web browsers and email archiving. The choice can seem mind-boggling if you take all these vendors and review them...

Tags: filtering, spam, content

[02 May 2008]

Tech Futures: The talkification of the web

Comment The internet is set to get louder with the talkification of the web. It's going to change the ways we interact on the web and will create some new rules for telecoms. Now a fleet of new tech companies have joined the fray in bringing voice-web...

Tags: internet, comms, voice

[01 May 2008]

Load Testing 2.0 for Web 2.0: Simplifying performance validation for Rich Internet Applications

whitepaper But while these rich next-generation applications promise a radically different customer experience, they also have the potential to overwhelm the servers and networks that deliver the content to client browsers.

Tags: thin clients

[01 May 2008]

Improving Web Browsing on Wireless PDAs Using Thin-Client Computing

whitepaper This paper presents the first experimental study to quantitatively compare the web browsing performance of thin-client systems versus traditional fat clients running native web browsers on wireless PDAs.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, client, pdas, browsing

[10 Apr 2008]

Considering the Color Blind

whitepaper Now include cross-browser support, older browsers, style sheets, and JavaScript in the mix. For some Web sites that could translate to 1 in 12 visitors. That's a larger proportion of visitors than some other groups I consider when designing Web sites.

Tags: web development and design, sites, visitors, color

[10 Apr 2008]

Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit

News A major threat is browser scripting attacks, which use web browsers to get through corporate firewalls, allowing access to confidential information. He said: "We've web-ified all applications. 'Pass the hash' and metasploit are two of a new breed...

Tags: browser, rsa, phishing, botnet

[09 Apr 2008]

Program With XML for DB2, Part 3: Program With XML in the Client

whitepaper The increased popularity of Web 2.0 is due largely to the flexibility of the current generation of web browsers. These browsers use Ajax to communicate with the server to interchange XML data and then employ DHTML to navigate the XML and present it...

Tags: web browsers

[09 Apr 2008]

How to Boost Consumer Confidence in Your e-Commerce Web Site

whitepaper With Extended Validation SSL (EV SSL) technology, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and other high security browsers turn green when displaying the URL of a protected Web site. Web-based businesses are facing a confidence crisis.

Tags: web browsers

[09 Apr 2008]

Flash Lite 3 Web Browsability Support Guidelines for Web Developers

whitepaper As a result, the vast majority of websites online today focus on the viewing experience delivered on personal computer-based browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Firefox. Traditionally, the web has been designed for, optimized, and consumed by...

Tags: web development and design

[03 Apr 2008]

Google crystal ball predicts mobile web boom

News The growing availability of flat-rate data plans from phone carriers instead of per-minute charges that previously discouraged internet use, along with improved web browsers on mobile phones and better-designed services from companies such as...

Tags: mobile, microsoft, blackberry, google

[19 Mar 2008]

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

News Firefox accounted for more than 17 per cent of all browsers used last month, while IE accounted for nearly 75 per cent, according to research conducted by Net Applications, a web measurement company. The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was...

Tags: mozilla, internet explorer, beta, firefox

[11 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]

Leading Higher Education Association Deploys Dynamic, Content-Rich Web Sites With Content Management Server

whitepaper The solution enables nontechnical content providers to create and publish rich, personalized content directly to the Web sites from their browsers or Microsoft Word. When the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) decided to update its Web...

Tags: application servers

[05 Mar 2008]

Ads popping up on US mobiles

News In December, Microsoft launched mini banner ads optimised for mobile phone browsers and screen size when people visit mobile MSN portal. According to the report, almost a third of people who use data services such as text messaging or web surfing...

Tags: ads, google, us, mobile

[05 Mar 2008]

Load Testing SOAs Which Utilize Web Services

whitepaper Internet is dominated by the use of web browsers; therefore the logical path for SOA on the web is to adopt the technologies used by browsers. What is new is the migration of SOA onto the web. The web services implementation that is almost...

Tags: xml

[24 Feb 2008]

Mobile Messaging With Exchange ActiveSync

whitepaper For convenience, SCOoffice integrates with Microsoft Outlook and industry-standard e-mail readers and Web browsers. SCOoffice Server 4.1 delivers a reliable, full-featured Internet e-mail and collaboration solution for small and medium businesses.

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

AOL pulls plug on Netscape browser

News Given AOL's current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it's the right time to end development of Netscape-branded browsers, hand the reigns fully to Mozilla and...

Tags: aol, netscape, windows, firefox

[02 Jan 2008]

Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple

Comment The lack of buttons and reliance on soft interface and gestures are revolutionary, but perhaps more impressive than that is the way the link between core functions - phone, iPod, web browsers - are seamless.

Tags: apple, mac, jobs, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

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