Google and Mozilla team up to pinpoint your location
There’s been an explosion of iPhone applications that take advantage of a user’s location (for example, Urbanspoon, the restaurant recommendation app that was just acquired by IAC). But websites and web apps have been slower to incorporate location awareness, because it would mean having users… Continue Reading
Roundup: iPhone tethering works, AT&T prepping no-contract iPhones, IE8 arrives early and more
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iPhone tethering and no commitment price — Just a day after Apple’s iPhone 3.0 software event, developers have found out that tethering is in fact an option in the new OS. They were able to get it working when connected over… Continue Reading
Roundup: The White House and YouTube test an open relationship, the Dow plunges below 7,000, an iPod and iPhone-less Gates household and more
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The White House and YouTube need to video message one another — A report this morning by CNET claimed the White House was ditching YouTube as a platform for President Obama’s weekly addresses and going with a different Flash-based solution from… Continue Reading
DEMO: Always Innovating’s Touch Book sounds amazing. Can it deliver?
I haven’t gotten a chance to try a Touch Book yet, but I want to. Who wouldn’t? The netbook produced by Always Innovating, making its debut at the DEMO conference today, claims to offer 10 to 15 hours of battery life, weighs under 2 pounds… Continue Reading
Chrome who? Safari 4 makes the browser hunt more interesting
I’ve had a bit of a dilemma in recent months. You see, my browser of choice, Google Chrome, is not available on my operating system of choice, Apple’s OS X. So I’ve been waiting patiently as Google makes slow progress on the Mac version. But… Continue Reading
Early pictures: Google Chrome on the Mac
“It’s alive!” Google’s Mike Pinkerton wrote yesterday on his blog. What was he talking about? Google Chrome… for the Mac.
Before you get all excited, it’s not yet “alive” for you, the public — but the team has finally made enough progress that the software… Continue Reading
Skyfire integrates an activity stream with Twitter, Facebook and feed support
Skyfire, the mobile browser that touts itself as translating the desktop web browsing experience to mobile phones, has added a useful new feature today: Activity streams. The browser now has a default area that lets you pipe in articles from your favorite sites as well… Continue Reading
Mozilla to fund open-source web video tech development
Firefox browser-maker Mozilla is pushing a new set of video technologies that won’t require users to install software plugins, while offering developers lower costs and greater flexibility. The nonprofit is pledging $100,000 in grant money for third-parties who are building for an open-source video encoding… Continue Reading
IE’s market share: Down, down, down as the rivals go higher
This past November, Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer (IE), saw its market share fall below 70 percent for the first time, according to data from Market Share. And the numbers look worse for the limited data from December so far, with IE now accounting for… Continue Reading
Mozilla launches a slick first beta of Camino 2.0
I’ve been using Camino, Mozilla’s open-source web browser built for the Mac, for quite some time now. I simply love its speed, simplicity and look – especially with its sibling browser Firefox getting overrun with bloated plugins. And today Camino gets even better with the first beta release… Continue Reading
Roundup: Yahoo flushes its “poison pill,” Crain’s goes out of print, WordPress goes 2.7 and more
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Yahoo flushes its “poison pill” — One of the reasons Microsoft decided not to go hostile in its bid to buy Yahoo was that the company had a so-called “poison pill” plan in place in which hundreds of millions of dollars… Continue Reading
Roundup: Job report hurts stocks, BlackBerry reviews surface and more
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Increase in joblessness spurs stock decline — After the Labor Department reported that applications for jobless benefits exceeded expectations, the Dow fell more than 80 points.
Reviews surface on BlackBerry Storm — CNET’s verdict: The touchscreen is nice, but corporate users… Continue Reading
Mozilla wants to bring add-ons to a mainstream audience
With the launch of a new site called Fashion Your Firefox, Mozilla is pushing to make normal users more aware of the add-ons available for its Firefox web browser.
There are already plenty of ways to find new add-ons (software you install to add features… Continue Reading
Firefox hits 20 percent market share as Internet Explorer continues to sink
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser surpassed 20 percent worldwide market share for the first time last month, according to new data from Net Applications. That’s a huge milestone for the open source web browser, which was first released (the 1.0 version) by Mozilla almost exactly four… Continue Reading
Geolocation makes its home in Firefox with 3.1 beta 1. Companies start taking advantage of it
Well it didn’t take long for Mozilla to build support for geolocation directly in to the Firefox web browser. Just a week after it officially launched the Geode plug-in for Firefox 3.0, Mozilla today launched Firefox 3.1 beta 1, which eliminates the need for the… Continue Reading
Location comes to the web browser with Mozilla’s Geode
Location is a hot field in mobile computing. It makes sense — you’re on the move, and newer phones such as the Apple iPhone and T-Mobile’s Android-based G1 have global positioning systems (GPS) built in. So mobile applications are being built in droves to use… Continue Reading
Joost’s desktop client is toast
Since early on in its testing phase, I found Joost to be a compelling take on Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). Let me rephrase: I found the idea of Joost to be compelling. It offered free video content on the web in a way that was… Continue Reading
Good news: Mozilla’s Camino Project lead is hard at work on Google Chrome for Mac
Google’s new browser Chrome is amazing. How amazing? So much so that I’ve booted Microsoft Windows on my iMac two days in a row now after not using it for months. (Chrome isn’t yet available for Mac OS X, more on that below.) Does Chrome… Continue Reading
Mozilla Labs’ Aza Raskin talks about the big picture for Ubiquity
Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser, just announced a very cool project that’s in the early stages of development — Ubiquity, a tool that allows users to access services like mapping, translation and search on any website. Earlier today, I had a chance… Continue Reading
Google Gears quietly launches beta test for Safari
Gears is an open source project run by Google which allows users to take online data offline via a web browser plug-in. It can, for example, allow you to read Google Reader feed items even when your computer is not connected to the Internet, and… Continue Reading