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Net pioneer GeoCities finally laid to rest
News With Yahoo's closure of GeoCities, Internet community bids farewell to one of earliest Web startups, but several efforts underway to save its content.
Tags: Web sites, GeoCities, Yahoo! Inc., Web sites, Portal, dot-com, Hollywood, Internet, Web Site, WWW
Google plug-in builds Chrome browser into IE
News Google Chrome Frame lets Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6, and above, display pages with features and performance of Chrome browser.
Tags: Web browsers, Browser, Plug-in, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer plug-in, Microsoft Internet Explorer, performance, Web Site, Web Developer
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's SPDY protocol could ramp up Web speeds
News Researchers at Google are playing with a new Web protocol that could theoretically decrease the time it takes to load a Web page by a significant amount.
Tags: Programming languages, Protocols and platforms, Google Inc., SPDY, Web Page, Web Browser, Web Server, Google Chrome, Server, TechCrunch
Yahoo stopping mobile 'Go' app in 2010
News Yahoo to pull the plug on a mobile app it cannibalized with the introduction of Yahoo Mobile, its optimized site and mobile app.
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Phone, cell phone, mobile, Web Browser, product marketing, Apple iPhone, strategy, Web
With IE 9, Microsoft fights back in browser wars
News By showing first glimpses of technology in Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft also showing it's serious about building competitive browser.
Tags: Web browsers, Acceleration Feature, Direct2D, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Graphics, Microsoft Internet Explorer, performance, Hardware, JavaScript
Microsoft fires up free tools for developers
News New WebsiteSpark program gives small Web design companies access to Microsoft tools and marketing support.
Tags: Business applications, Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft SQL Server, Tool, Developer, Microsoft Windows, marketing, Web Site, Web
Mozilla not interested in building Firefox OS
News Does Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Google Inc., Mitchell Baker, Operating System, revenue, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Microsoft Internet Explorer
O'Reilly: Web is at war, and it's making me sad
News In his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly sets off the "punditocracy" by insisting that the "war of the Web" is heating up again.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Checkout, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Web sites, Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly
New Firefox 3.6 beta aims to cut crashes
News Third beta imposes new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it. And feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7.
Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Web Page, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., Beta, release candidate, Mozilla Firefox, performance
Web-based malware infections rise rapidly, stats show
News Nearly 6 million Web pages are infected with malware, double previous estimates earlier in the year, according to Dasient.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Google Inc., Malware, Twitter Inc., Dasient, SQL, Infection, Web Application
The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
Google gadget translates sites into 51 languages
News Gadget, which is powered by Google Translate, allows any website to be automatically translated into the language of the viewer's choice.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Gadget, Google Inc., Language, automated translation, authentication system, Web Browser, Tool, product manager
Zero-day flaw found in Web encryption
News Security issue with underlying web encryption protocols TLS and SSL has left many authentication mechanisms open to attack, according to security researchers.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Business security, Authentication, Security, Business security, SSL, Authentication and encryption, Web Browser, Zero-day Bug, Encryption
WebGL slips into Chrome, too, for 3D Web
News Google's browser is the latest to get support for a nascent standard for building accelerated 3D graphics into Web pages and Web applications.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Web browsers, Khronos Group, Web sites, Web 2.0, WebGL, Web-based Application, Web Browser
