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July 17, 2007
Firefox gains market share in Europe
Link: Firefox gains market share in Europe
Filed under: Firefox News, Browsers, Internet News
New research from French Web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor, shows that the Mozilla Foundations's Web browser, Firefox, gained on average an extra 3.1 per cent of the market in 32 European countries in the four months to July.
In the first week of ...
June 20, 2007
Safari supports enhanced browser colours
Link: Safari supports enhanced browser colours
Filed under: Apple News, Browsers, Internet News
Apple could lead the way to making the web a more colourful place with its new Safari browser.
Safari, which is now available in beta on Windows, supports different ways of encoding images to those provided by browsers such as Microsoft's Internet ...
May 8, 2007
IE8 to work with CSS2
Link: IE8 to work with CSS2
Filed under: Browsers, Microsoft News, Internet News
Microsoft gave away a few hints about its forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser at the Mix 07 conference in Las Vegas.
IE platform architect Chris Wilson said that the company will continue to prioritise security and ease-of-use in IE 8 and also ...
April 10, 2007
Mozilla preparing Firefox for social-networking
Link: Mozilla preparing Firefox for social-networking
Filed under: Browsers, Internet News
The Mozilla Foundation is developing social-networking features for its Firefox browser.
In a project called The Coop, developers are building a browser add-on which will let people share and receive links, or content such as photos, over the Web.
The project is developing ...
February 5, 2007
Microsoft pushes IE7 browser safety
Link: Microsoft pushes IE7 browser safety
Filed under: Phishing News, Companies News, Browsers, Microsoft News, Security News, Internet News
Microsoft has upgraded its computer systems, allowing Web sites fitted with a new type of security certificate to display a green-filled address bar in IE7. The green bar is meant to indicate that the site can be trusted.
Microsoft plans to promote the ...
January 26, 2007
Concerns over Google & Mozilla anti-phishing
Link: Concerns over Google & Mozilla anti-phishing
Filed under: Web Development News, Browsers, Phishing News, Webhosting News, Google News, Security News, Webmaster News, Internet News
Concerns have been raised about the Google & Firefox anti-phishing drive, after it was revealed that the publishing of raw data online contained usernames and passwords of phishing victims.
Reports that personal data was being published was raised as far back as September ...
January 9, 2007
Official: Apple iPhone launched
Link: Official: Apple iPhone launched
Filed under: Apple News, Hardware News, Wireless News, Mobile News, Browsers, Google News, Yahoo! News, Technology News
It's official - the long-rumoured Apple iPhone will be launched this year.
And it's not simply a phone, but a widescreen iPod, mobile phone and mobile internet device all in one.
Steve Jobs provided the first tour of the "internet multimedia device" at MacWorld Expo, hailing ...
October 26, 2006
Firefox 2 releases privacy storm
Link: Firefox 2 releases privacy storm
Filed under: Firefox News, Companies News, Browsers, Google News, Security News, Webmaster News, Internet News
The much anticipated Firefox 2.0 was launched by the Mozilla Foundation yesterday - and immediately generated a storm of protests over privacy issues.
Key to privacy concerns is that Mozilla have set up their long-awaited phishing protection feature on Firefox 2.0 - but ...
October 2, 2006
Firefox faces serious security threat
Link: Firefox faces serious security threat
Filed under: Firefox News, Browsers, Security News
IMPORTANT: Turned out this story was a fraud. There are no security flaws, and Six Apart - who sponsored the defamation - are trying to play the whole embarrassing mess down as a "prank".
The increasingly popular Mozilla Firefox browser has been found ...
Security warnings over Windows Vista
Link: Security warnings over Windows Vista
Filed under: Software News, Companies News, Browsers, Microsoft News, Security News
SPECIAL REPORT
Microsoft is coming under increasing fire over the security of its Windows software.
While criticims of Windows security vulnerabilities are nothing new, Microsoft plans to take control of security on Windows Vista, their next release.
This means that third-party software vendors could be prevented from ...
September 26, 2006
Net delivers mobile domains
Link: Net delivers mobile domains
Filed under: Mobile News, Browsers, Web Development News, Webhosting News, Internet News
Public registrations of .mobi - the newly accredited domain name extension - has opened up today.
The aim of .mobi domain names is to cater specifically for mobile device users.
The domain registration body overseeing the project - Mobile Top Level Domain (MTLD) - insists ...
September 20, 2006
Torpark browser released to protect privacy
Link: Torpark browser released to protect privacy
Filed under: Software News, Firefox News, Browsers
A new browser named Torpark has been released, which claims to offer greater privacy protections online.
Torpark is a modified version of the increasingly popular Mozilla Firefox browser, and connects to the internet via an extensive network of servers and routers set up ...
September 1, 2006
New Browzar offers private surfing
Link: New Browzar offers private surfing
Filed under: Firefox News, Browsers, Microsoft News
UPDATE: Browzar stands accused of being AdWare, and Techcrunch accuses it as being nothing more than a simple shell to IE which forces Overture ads on its own users.
A new internet browser named Browzer has been released, which is built to ...
July 27, 2006
IE6 to auto update to IE7 on XP
Link: IE6 to auto update to IE7 on XP
Filed under: Software News, Browsers, Microsoft News, Internet News
Microsoft have announced that the new version of Internet Explorer - IE7 - will automatically download and install to Windows XP users at the end of this year.
It will be distributed as part of Microsoft's Windows Update feature, which allows Microsoft to ...
June 2, 2006
Privacy fears over Mozilla Firefox
Link: Privacy fears over Mozilla Firefox
Filed under: Browsers, Google News, Webmaster News, Internet News
Privacy fears have been raised over the possibility of Firefox data being supplied to Google.
The Mozilla Firefox browser has become an increasingly popular alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
Google have been working more and more closely with the Mozilla Foundation, who ...
March 27, 2006
More serious bugs bite Internet Explorer
Link: More serious bugs bite Internet Explorer
Filed under: Browsers, Microsoft News, Security News
Microsoft was today warning that three new Internet Explorer vulnerabilities put users at risk.
One simply causes IE to crash, but the other two are more malicious, and allow a third-party to take control of a users PC.
The warning comes as the security record ...
March 20, 2006
Online banking struggles with IE7
Link: Online banking struggles with IE7
Filed under: Browsers, Ecommerce News, Microsoft News, Internet News
The Royal Bank of Scotland is warning users that it's online banking facility will not work with Internet Explorer 7.
The warning comes as Microsoft prepares to launch Internet Explorer 7 this summer.
Some banks use somewhat antiquated online banking systems, and the Royal ...
February 7, 2006
New Internet Explorer could pose risks to users
Link: New Internet Explorer could pose risks to users
Filed under: Phishing News, Browsers, Webmaster News, Microsoft News
There are concerns that the coming release of Internet Explorer 7 later this year, could bring a new wave of phishing scams and confusion about the identity of websites.
While only beta versions of Internet Explorer 7 are currently available, a feature ...
September 30, 2005
IE market share holds steady against Firefox
Link: IE market share holds steady against Firefox
Filed under: Firefox News, Browsers
According to web analytics company WebSideStory, Firefox's success in gaining market share from Internet Explorer is beginning to falter. The company says that Firefox, an open source browser, has increased its market by just one percentage point over the last five months - from ...
September 20, 2005
Opera browser now free without ads
Link: Opera browser now free without ads
Filed under: Browsers
Opera Software has withdrawn advertising banners from the free version of its Opera browser software. The ad-free, full-featured version is available for download at www.opera.com
The free-browser was previously only available with an advertising banner. Users could have this removed for the ...
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