Firefox 4 Adoption Tops XP-Skipping Internet Explorer 9 (NewsFactor)
Mozilla has reported a sharp rise in Firefox 4 downloads since offering an update to all users of older versions. As a result, Firefox 4's global market share rose more than 3.5 percentage points,...
View ArticleGoogle’s Android moving into homes (AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google wants Android to move into people's homes with the open-source software powering everything from smart light bulbs to sound systems. More than 5,000 software savants at...
View ArticleOpen-Xchange’s New Mobile Client Has Offline Access (PC World)
Open-source collaboration platform provider Open-Xchange has a released Mobile Web App, which gives smartphone users online and offline access to appointments, e-mails and contacts while on the road,...
View ArticleMozilla spars with Microsoft over WebGL security (Digital Trends)
Last week, Microsoft raised some hackles in the Web development community by claiming that there was no way to implement the WebGL open 3D graphics standard in Internet Explorer without exposing users...
View ArticleExEn engine brings Microsoft’s XNA games to Android, other platforms...
A new open-source engine could be adding quite a few new games to the Android Market. It’s called ExEn , and it works with Microsoft’s XNA software development kit, according to a story from Pocket...
View ArticlePasswords are made obsolete with Mozilla’s BrowserID (Digital Trends)
Mozilla released information today about a project designed to put an end to the password. BrowserID requires a user to verify that they are the owner of an email address a single time. Once the email...
View ArticleOpenOffice Gets IBM Boost (PC Magazine)
It's curious how the recent OpenOffice saga has been downplayed by much of the media covering technology, but it seems pretty important to me. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are the two primary office...
View ArticleMozilla Will Build Open OS for Smartphones and Tablets (NewsFactor)
Mozilla has begun work on a mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets based on the free open-source Gecko engine for HTML layout used in many applications created by the organization's...
View ArticleGoogle’s Chrome overtakes Firefox in UK (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) – Google's Chrome overtook Mozilla Firefox in July to become Britain's second-most popular Web browser after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Web analytics firm StatCounter said on...
View ArticleFirefox 8 kills malicious add-ons installed without user permission (Digital...
Even though the most up to date users are currently on version 5 of Firefox , Mozilla announced plans for a feature in Firefox 8 that will automatically block any add-ons have have been bundled into...
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