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HTC Touch Pro 2
Reviews HTC's best smartphone yet features a tilting screen, a good QWERTY keyboard and a responsive touch interface. The high-resolution screen is also superb. Our only real concern is battery life.
Tags: Battery, Screen, Mobile, Device, Web Browser, USB, HTC Touch, HSPA, Microsoft Windows Mobile, hardware keyboard
Microsoft's Gazelle browser takes a radical path
News Helen Wang, researcher behind Microsoft's Gazelle, discusses the effort to make the browser more like an operating system.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Web sites, Web services, Web Browser, operating system, Web Application, computer, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Redmond
Google claims 30 percent Chrome speed boost
News A new version of Google's V8 JavaScript engine should boost Chrome's page-loading speed by almost a third when the browser encounters JavaScript-heavy pages.
Tags: Web browsers, Java, Google Inc., Web Browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, performance, Apple Safari, JavaScript, CNET Networks Inc.
Flash cookies: What's new with online privacy
Techguide If you thought refusing HTTP cookies prevented tracking, think again. Web site developers have found a way.
Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Cookie, Online Privacy, Web Browser, behavioral targeting, Michael Kassner, Mozilla Firefox, researcher, Web Site
Google PowerMeter energy tracker works without smart meter
News Google connects its PowerMeter Web-based energy tool to a monitoring device, which means that consumers don't need to have smart meters for real-time energy tracking.
Tags: Green IT, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Phone, Web 2.0, Green IT, Smart Phone, Web Browser, Tool, monitoring
Opera: Mini leads cross-platform charge
News Browser maker says Opera's reach extended to include devices such as games devices and in-flight entertainment systems, where over 35.6 million people use Opera Mini.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Opera Software ASA, Microsoft Corp., mobile, Web Browser, Europe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, antitrust, Microsoft Windows
Stable version of Chrome 3.0 released
News Google has completed work on a stable version of its Chrome browser, officially adding support for new Web video technologies and tweaking a few key features.
Tags: Web browsers, Sergey Brin, Plug-in, Web Browser, Video, Apple Macintosh, I/O, co-founder, Netbook, Web browsers
Apple patches multiple iPhone, QuickTime flaws
News Ten holes in Apple's smartphone operating system and media player software could leave owners open to hacking and phishing attacks.
Tags: Cellular phones, Applications and tools, Apple Inc., Phishing, Apple QuickTime, Web Browser, Flaw, patch management, Apple iPhone, Web Site
Europe to test Microsoft browser ballot system
News The EC has said it is happy with concessions made by the software giant to provide a choice of browsers, while Microsoft will make technical docs available to developers.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Commission, Microsoft Corp., software, European Commission, Business applications, Web Browser, Europe
Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics
News Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, has languished as a graphics format on the Web, but now the stars are aligned for its success, Google argues.
Tags: Software, Digital media, Google Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Conference, Web Browser, Graphics, SVG, Software
Will the OS not matter in time?
Blogs It was late Wednesday afternoon here when news of Google's plans to unveil a desktop operating system (OS) first broke, ...
Firefox: 1B downloads only part of the story
News Mozilla answered the billionth request for Firefox and launched its latest viral marketing effort.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Cell Phone, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, marketing, Opera Software, Web, Web browsers
Google Chrome: yet another reinvention of the wheel?
Blogs Google has finally released its new strategic weapon: Google Chrome, a Web browser developed on the Webkit project. L...
Edit, share docs on-the-go with Google Docs
Blogs Google Docs offers free, feature-rich Web-based tools for editing and sharing spreadsheets and text documents. Using a W...
Google fixes severe Chrome security hole
News A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google's browser could let an attacker use a different browser to make Chrome do his bidding.
Tags: Web browsers, Spam and phishing, Security, Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, local disk, Microsoft Internet Explorer, program manager, JavaScript
