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Google Chrome Completes One Year. Gets Sony PCs as Birthday Gift!
It is now exactly one year since Google introduced their new browser Chrome. All along, they had patronized one of the best open source browsers in the world, Firefox and helped it become the second most popular browser after the mighty Internet Explorer. When Chrome was introduced, people wondered if Firefox was going to suffer.
Retrospectively, [...]
Microsoft Sending Windows 7 To Europe Without Internet Explorer – A Sign Of Things To Come?
Ever mindful of the watchful eyes of the European Union, Microsoft has confirmed the rumours that it will not be including Internet Explorer in the latest version of its operating system Windows 7, that it ships in Europe. In fact, no browser will included in the operating system by default. This comes as a precautionary [...]
Microsoft puts OneRiot real time search in Internet Explorer 8
On May 29th Microsoft launched Bing its new decision engine with much fanfare (they are pumping in more than 80M $ for adverts on Bing!), and there have been some pretty good reviews about it. But one more important update from Microsoft that got buried in all the hoopla was the fact that it has [...]
IE 8 Goes out of Beta – Microsoft Releases the Latest Public Version of Its Famed Browser
It’s been nearly a year since we first heard of Microsoft and its IE 8 browser. And finally after all these months of Beta testing the browser is now live for public use. Internet Explorer 8 is available as a free download on Microsoft’s Web site to licensed Microsoft operating system users. IE8 will run on computers with Windows Vista as well as Windows XP.
Google Chrome: Everything You Want To Know About The Google Browser
Here it comes, the much awaited Google Browser. They call it Chrome. Google announced it in its official blog.
Interestingly, they have described the entire technology behind Chrome in a comic. Here it is.
Google Chrome, from what I have seen till now, is not just another regular browser, built on top of an existing base. The [...]
Ushering in the Era of Command-Line Applications with Mozilla Ubiquity!
Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension, from Mozilla Labs, that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web.
This public prototype aims to empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. Existing web APIs have been utilized to create on-demand and user-created mashups.
Microsoft Internet Explorer For Mobile Coming Soon
After the success of Opera Mini and iPhone’s Safari, Microsoft plans to bring Internet Explorer to the mobile phones. The phone will be available in the third quarter of 2008. Now, knowing Microsoft’s past, and what they did to win the first browser war, they sure gonna put up a worthy competent. Ohh, I know what you are thinking.
637 Million Insecure Web Surfers – Microsoft Forced to Launch SmartScreen Filter
A group of researchers from IBM’s Internet Security systems, Google and ETH Zurich have released a study which says that 40 percent of the total internet users are using outdated versions of web browsers which makes them vulnerable to attack, thus posing a security risk to any vital information stored on the user’s computer. The researchers were able to determine that out of the 1.4 billion internet users worldwide, 637 million used outdated versions of browsers.
Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer ..Which one would you like?
This is another Guest Post – this time Darshit Mehta from BITS Pilani writes.
Mozilla Firefox is a free or an open source software, a mainstream of alternative web browsers to put it is gaining popularity due to its unique plug- ins and add-ons& also the stability its gives to the user. The usage of [...]