Ubuntu, Firefox line up to take on iOS, Android in 2013
Android and iOS may be at the top of the heap in the smartphone world, but that hasn't stopped competitors, new and old, from trying to grab a piece of the pie. Ubuntu-maker Canonical announced...
View ArticleChrome 24 vs. Firefox 18 - head to head
With major new releases of both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox happening within days of each other, it's been a big week for the browser market. Chrome 24 began to be rolled out to stable channel...
View ArticleUltimate Google toolbox: 20 tips, tricks, and hacks
Google's search, mail, maps, and cloud services are practically de facto public utilities. Fire up your browser, and there Google is. But don't take Google for granted--there's much more to its core...
View ArticleFour alternatives to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone
Today Android and iOS dominate the smartphone market, combining to provide the operating systems for more than 95 percent of smartphones. Still, not everyone is a fan of the Apple-Google mobile universe.
View ArticleAvaya willing to share customers with Cisco, Microsoft in three-way...
Avaya unified communications products can get along with Microsoft's Lync Server, and many customers will probably choose to deploy both rather than just one, says Avaya's CEO.
View ArticleMozilla refines Firefox's private browsing, patches 13 browser bugs
Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team.
View ArticleMicrosoft to patch IE10 Pwn2Own bugs next week, says security expert
Microsoft will ship nine security updates next week, two rated "critical," to patch Internet Explorer, Windows, SharePoint Server, Office Web Apps and the company's anti-malware software in Windows 8...
View ArticleMozilla pulls tracking trigger for Firefox 22, ignores ad industry attacks
Mozilla has added automatic third-party cookie-blocking to a preview version of Firefox 22, a move that will put the feature in most users hands by late June and the company on a collision course with...
View ArticleAs browsing goes mobile, Apple wins, Mozilla loses
The trend toward browsing from phones and tablets has helped some browser makers, dramatically in one case, but hurt others in the battle for usage share, data from a metrics firm showed.
View ArticleOpera sues ex-employee for $3.4M over alleged trade secrets violation
Trond Werner Hansen, the designer of some of the Opera Web browser's signature interface features, has been sued by that company in Norway for 20 million kroner ($3.4 million).
View ArticleMicrosoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com
Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox.
View ArticleSued Opera designer fingers Mozilla's 'Search Tabs' as root of $3.4M claim
The former Opera Software designer accused of leaking trade secrets to Mozilla denied the charges yesterday, but confirmed that the lawsuit takes aim at a search revamp he worked on while a consultant...
View ArticleBest case, Mozilla's Firefox for Windows 8 will ship in October
Firefox for Windows 8's "Modern" user interface (UI) will likely wrap up development this fall, Mozilla said on its website in a best case-worst case schedule.
View ArticleMozilla to Firefox: 'Browser, heal thyself'
Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 21, adding more social media connections, tweaking the Do Not Track privacy setting and rolling out a new tool that long term, aims to create a self-healing browser.
View ArticleIt's the end of the road for the Camino browser for Macs
After 10 years, developers of Camino, a Mac-only browser built atop Mozilla's Gecko engine, called it quits yesterday.
View ArticleMicrosoft's ambivalence about Office on the Web gives Apple shot with iWork...
Almost as an afterthought, Apple has announced it was working on browser-based versions of its iWork productivity applications, a move one analyst said challenged Microsoft's Office behemoth.
View ArticleGood riddance Google Reader: Feedly throws switch on alternate RSS service
Feedly today switched on its own RSS API and service, divorcing itself from the soon-to-be-dead Google Reader.
View ArticlePhoning Firefox: Browser now makes Web calls
Mozilla today shipped Firefox 22, enabling the in-browser audio-video calling standard WebRTC and switching on a new JavaScript module that promises to speed up Web apps.
View ArticleFirst Firefox OS smartphone debuts in Spain
The first Web-based Firefox mobile OS smartphones will be released soon in Spain and Poland, with more coming soon to other regions of the world, Mozilla announced Monday.
View ArticleMozilla's Firefox OS smartphones do matter -- to developers and buyers
Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich described keen interest shown by 8 million Web developers in the Firefox OS, and said that 20-plus smartphone makers and wireless carriers plan to sell devices running the OS...
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