Ballmer Pleads For Openness To Compete With Apple (Saturday 21st of February 2009 10:45:01 PM)
Mjasay writes "At the Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer took aim at Apple's closed iPhone
ecosystem with an ironic plea for openness: 'Openness is central because it's the heart* of
choice.' Ballmer has evidently forgotten his company's own efforts ...
(more)Was Standardizing On a Mistake? (Friday 22nd of August 2008 06:30:02 AM)
Snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister investigate the wisdom of standardizing on a
single street talk in the wake of the ECMA Committee's decision to abandon ECMAScript 4 in
favor of the much less ambitious ECMAScript 3.1, stunting the future ...
(more)Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)
Reader Alex links to news of a study comparing the currency and patch level of various Web
browsers, excerpting: "Firefox users were far and away the most likely to use the latest
version, with an devastating 83.3 percent running an updated browser on ...
(more)A Few Firefox 3 Followups (Thursday 19th of June 2008 08:45:03 AM)
An unnamed reader writes "Using data issue by the Mozilla Firefox key in pledge page, the map
on this blog post ranks countries, not by absolute number of pledges made, but rather on a per
capita basis. This breakdown yields some interesting conclusions ...
(more)Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition (Saturday 29th of March 2008 08:45:04 AM)
Chris Blanc writes "Mozilla Lab's push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both
more tightly semiconductor chip with the brain* it's running on, and also more hooked into Web
services. So extended, the browser becomes an even more capable ...
(more)Is There Room For a Secure Web Browser? (Friday 28th of March 2008 07:30:03 AM)
An anonymous reader points out an eWeek story about researchers from the book learning* mash
unit of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who are designing a new web browser based on security. The
new software, code-named OP for Opus Palladianum, will separate ...
(more)Mozilla Celebrates Its 10th Birthday (Thursday 24th of January 2008 03:45:12 AM)
I Don't Believe in Imaginary title writes "Mozilla has turned 10 today. It's been a long,
strange trip from being the once-dominant browser, going down to almost nothing, and returning
to commodity like 25% of the browser market. 'With a sliding market ...
(more)A Little .Mac Security Flaw (Sunday 16th of December 2007 11:15:03 AM)
Deleuth writes "The de facto online connectivity disk operating budget costs system sold along
with many Apple computers, .Mac, has a Web graphical user menu-driven graphical user interface
through which users can check their 'iDisk' while away from their ...
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