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No more Safari for Windows based PCs

No more Safari for Windows based PCs Windows users who are big Safari fans may be disappointed with the recent development made by the browser’s developer Apple, as the latter has decided to pull Safari for Windows out, just in time for the release of Apple’s Safari 6. However, Windows users can still download Safari version 5.1.7 after tediously scouring for the [...] Read more →

Chrome for iOS now Apple App Store’s baby

Chrome for iOS now Apple App Store's baby Google Chrome for iOS became an instant sensation, barely a day after Google released the app to Apple fanatics. Chrome became the app store’s most downloaded free app on the iPad and the iPhone, and it doesn’t look like that trend might change for days. Google Chrome is considered as one of the popular Internet [...] Read more →

Twitter upgrades users privacy control

Social networking site Twitter said that they are now going to honor Do Not Track requests so as for users to better improve their privacy control. Director of growth and international at Twitter Othman Laraki said, “These tailored suggestions are based on accounts followed by other Twitter users and visits to websites in the Twitter [...] Read more →

Google’s Android browser tops mobile web browsing

google's android browser tops mobile web browsing Internet Explorer’s popularity has been constantly declining over the years. Yet, it still is among the top web browsers for personal computers. Mobile devices on the other hand have their own king. IE has really not mattered at all and Opera has been lording it over the browser competition for mobile phones. Unfortunately, Opera’s hold [...] Read more →

Google, Facebook bypasses IE privacy settings

PRIVACY GOOGLE FB The question is not who are those companies trying to bypass Microsoft Internet Explorer’s privacy settings. The question that needs to be raised is which companies are not trying to bypass IE’s privacy settings. As news broke that search engine giant Google was able to circumvent Apple’s Safari browser, Microsoft also revealed that the company [...] Read more →

Internet Explorer browser share continue to slide

Microsoft’s in-house browser, Internet Explorer, seems to have difficulty in finding ways to stop the continuing fall of their market share. The Internet Explorer has lost eight-tenths of a percentage point last month to finish with a share of 51.9%. These figures are based on metrics company Net Applications. They also added that IE dropped [...] Read more →

Google Chrome now on Sony Vaio

Yup, if you’re gonna buy a Sony VAIO today, it’ll probably come with Google Chrome pre-installed in your unit. The FT reports that Google has announced Monday about their new alliance with Sony’s PC division to help promote their one-year-old browser. “Awareness is shockingly low. It’s absolutely a problem that people don’t know what a [...] Read more →

Microsoft slow in fixing IE bug?

Rumors have been going on that Microsoft was already aware of a bug behind their browser, Internet Exporer (IE) since last year and yesterday, the company has confirmed it. Mick Reavey, director of Microsoft’s Security Response Center, said that the company was already aware of the critical flaw in an ActiveX control since early spring [...] Read more →