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  • Amazon Kindle Unveils New Models: $189 3G Model, $139 WiFi-Only Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:22PMWell, sure enough, it turns out that something did come from the Amazon Kindle selling out, with no sign of any restocking happening. Because Amazon has just pulled the curtain off their brand new Kindle, and sure enough, it’s actually worth the wait. Bringing in that new graphite look, plus a new look and feel to the keyboard, the new Kindle brings with it the same features that we all know and ...
  • New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only version and $189 3G model available August 27th in the US and UK Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 6:44PMdigg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Amazon_Kindle_announced_139_WiFi_only_version_and_189'; Let's be honest -- you saw this one coming, didn't you? Today Amazon is introducing a new reading device for e-book aficionados dubbed simply... the Kindle. The new handheld -- slated to be released on August 27th -- is 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter than the ...
  • Apple updates Safari 5; users can add new features through Safari Extensions Gallery Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 8:10AMApple today released Safari 5.0.1, turning on Safari Extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery...
  • Press Release - Apple Updates Safari 5 Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:57AMCUPERTINO, California—July 28, 2010—Apple® today released Safari® 5.0.1, turning on Safari Extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery. Apple introduced extensions support in Safari 5 in June so developers could begin creating extensions with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards.
  • Safari 5.0.1 released: new Extensions add feature flexibility Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:52AMAfter the iMac and Mac Pro hardware updates yesterday, Apple has turned its attentions to software today with a new version of their Safari browser. Safari 5.0.1 has activated Safari Extensions, basically HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript coded add-ons and plug-ins, which can be installed from the Safari Extensions Gallery. Safari 5 made its debut in June , boasting a 30-percent speed boost over v.4 of ...
  • Apple releases Safari 5.0.1, Extensions Gallery now open Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:45AMdigg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_releases_Safari_5_0_1_Extensions_Gallery_now_open'; Safari 5's extension support just got a whole lot more useful this morning, as Apple's just released Safari 5.0.1, which enables the feature for end users, and opened its official Extension Gallery. Extensions can be installed from anywhere, but you might think of the Gallery as ...
  • Apple Updates Safari 5 Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:30AMApple® today released Safari® 5.0.1, turning on Safari Extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery. Apple introduced extensions support in Safari 5 in June so developers could begin creating extensions with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards.
  • Ntractive Announces Small Business Pricing and QuickBooks Integration in Version 2.5 Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 8:00AMGRAND FORKS, N.D.----Ntractive announces the release of Version 2.5 of their Mac Customer Relationship Management Solution, Elements CRM. Version 2.5 includes QuickBooks Integration and a new pricing model.
  • Adding Rounded Corners to HTML with CSS - Thanks to HTML5 and CSS3 it's never been so easy! Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 2:26PMAdding rounded corners to an object in your HTML should be easy. Heck, open up Photoshop or your favorite image editor and it is easy to around rounded corners to any rectangle you create. When it comes to creating Web pages it is a different matter. Creating rounded corners to a block of text, a tab or a background is not easy. The only effective way to add a rounded corner is to create a HTML ...
  • Google preps tablet-friendly Chrome that knows 'what's up' Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 10:54AMOrientation-oriented OS As part of its effort to graduate its Chrome browser to the upcoming Chrome OS, Google is working to add device orientation to the browser's capabilities.…
  • Developing for the iPhone and Android: The pros and cons Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 6:24AMComputerworld's Jonathan Hassell looks at what a developer takes into consideration when deciding whether to build apps for the iPhone or Android platforms.
  • Yahoo Taps Android for Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 8:15AMYahoo July 1 launched Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger applications for Android as well as a search widget for the operating system created by Google for smartphones, tablets and other mobile computing devices.
  • HTML5 Isn't Ready For Primetime, YouTube Says Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 5:13PMFlash offers video streaming capabilities that HTML5 just can't match yet.
  • Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 6:06AMEmotional disagreements between two groups are disrupting the creation of the high-profile standard at the heart of the next-generation Web.
  • Apple leaves iPad vulnerable after major iPhone patch job Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 4:12AMAs part of Monday's iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. Apple released iOS 4 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod touch on Monday.
  • Apple leaves iPad vulnerable after monster iPhone patch job Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 3:53AMAs part of Monday's iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. But Apple's iPad isn't slated to get the iOS 4 update until this fall.
  • Apple Leaves iPad Vulnerable After Monster iPhone Patch Job Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 11:07PMAs part of Monday's iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. iPhone - Apple - IPad - Smartphones - Handhelds
  • Apple Leaves iPad Vulnerable After Monster iPhone Patch Job Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 2:51PMMonday's iOS 4 patches record 65 bugs; iPad won't get fixes until the fall IPhone - IPad - Apple - Smartphones - Handhelds
  • Apple patches the iPhone but leaves the iPad vulnerable Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 2:03PMAs part of Monday's iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. Apple released iOS 4 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod Touch on Monday shortly after 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT.
  • Firefox 4 upgrade ideas start becoming reality Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 10:06PMWebM video, hardware-accelerated video, and a user interface overhaul start arriving in a test version of what will become Firefox 4.
  • Firefox 4 Upgrade Ideas Start Becoming Reality Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 2:12PMSAN FRANCICSCO - Mozilla released a new Firefox 4 prototype late Monday that builds in support for Google's WebM video technology and several other changes planned for the open-source Web browser's next major version.
  • Latest News Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 9:30AMResearch in Motion is rumored to be working on a touch screen phone hybrid that also includes a slider style keyboard, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal and our previous reports dubbing the device the BlackBerry Storm 3 . Those familiar with the new hardware claim it is not unlike Apple’s iPhone and boasts many similar technical feats, possibly similar to RIM’s patents from ...
  • Google updates Chrome, Chromium and Frame Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 3:08PMThe new browser release fixes eight high-risk flaws, while the Frame beta improves integration with Internet Explorer
  • Apple's Safari 5 Browser Runs Faster, Kills Ads Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 9:28PMApple late on Monday released Safari 5, the latest version of its browser, which includes a Safari Reader feature for viewing multipage articles on the Web.
  • Safari 5 Announced, Then Pulled Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 6:42PMA press release announcing the release of Safari 5 hit the wires and was pulled shortly thereafter — indicating that although we didn’t hear anything about it in today’s
  • Apple Releases Safari 5 Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 6:21PMread more
  • Apple Releases Safari 5 Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 6:16PMApple® today released Safari® 5, the latest version of the world's fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4,* and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari's search field.
  • Apple Releases Safari 5 Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 5:58PMSAN FRANCISCO, June 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple® today released Safari® 5, the latest version of the world's fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4,* and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari's search field.
  • Apple releases Safari 5, world’s fastest web browser; supports over a dozen new HTML5 technologies Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 5:53PMApple today released Safari 5, the latest version of the world's fastest and most innovative web browser...
  • Safari 5 Clips Chrome and Apes Instapaper With Safari Reader [Apple] Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 5:42PMIt didn't warrant a keynote mention, apparently, but Safari 5 is here. The big new feature, besides speed—it's a whole 3 percent faster than Chrome—is Safari Reader, which reformats web articles into a single view, sorta like Instapaper. More »
  • Microsoft touts HTML5 as core of IE9 Thursday, June 3, 2010 @ 4:49AMIE director Ryan Gavin says his aims are to reduce IE6's market share to zero and to achieve cross-browser standards compatibility with the forthcomng IE9 Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's senior director of Internet Explorer, is remarkably chirpy for a man whose product's market share has plunged from 90% to roughly 60%, but it seems things are not all bad. "The future for IE is as bright as it's been ...
  • Apple's Jobs: iPad Plans Began Before iPhone Tuesday, June 1, 2010 @ 6:28PMSpeaking at the Wall Street Journal's D8 conference this evening, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said he expected tablets like the iPad would eventually supplant the personal computer for most people; and that the idea for the iPad actually came before the iPhone.
  • Firefox Home: A not-quite Firefox iPhone app Wednesday, May 26, 2010 @ 8:15PMA forthcoming app from Mozilla will let Firefox users open Web sites on their iPhones.
  • Google open-sources My Tracks GPS Android app Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 3:00AMNet giant has liberated the source code of a project that turns an Android phone into a GPS unit.
  • BlackBerry Bold 9800 slides open, shows off promising WebKit-based browser Friday, May 21, 2010 @ 12:13PMWe've known RIM has had a WebKit-based browser in its rear pocket since Mobile World Congress, and with confirmation that BlackBerry OS 6.0 would have traces of WebKit throughout, this discovery was simply inevitable. The BlackBerry Bold 9800 (polarizing design and all) has just made its most interesting appearance yet, this time showing off a purported WebKit-based web browser with a trio of ...
  • BlackBerry Bold 9800 Leaked Pics Show WebKit Browser [BlackBerry] Friday, May 21, 2010 @ 7:42AM# blackberry Leaked photos of the Bold 9800 aren't anything new , but photos showing OS 6.0's WebKit browser ? Yes, please. More »
  • Google I/O 2010 Keynote Online Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 7:46AMFor those of you who aren't able to attend the Google I/O 2010 conference (like me), you're in luck! The entire first day keynote is online, and there are some pretty interesting announcements. HTML5 is the big push, and I've got to admit some of what they showed looked slick, and looks to provide for a bright future for Chrome OS.
  • Faster Forward: Report from Google I/O Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 5:14PMSAN FRANCISCO--Wednesday morning, Google will open its annual developers conference, Google I/O, with a keynote presentation outlining its major product developments. I'm expecting news about its Android smartphone operating system; its project to add Web software to TVs; such Web applications as... Google - Google Wave - Searching - Search Engines - Companies
  • Adobe hastens release of HTML5 developer tool Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 11:46AMOnly three weeks after releasing Dreamweaver CS5, it releases an update to add support for HTML5. It's not Flash or nothing at Adobe.
  • Webkit browser available again for Windows Phone - via Zetakey - and we tested it! Tuesday, May 18, 2010 @ 2:01PMMay 18, 2010 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. ... this browser sucks yet...
  • Building Web sites optimized for the iPhone and Android OS 2 Monday, May 10, 2010 @ 10:40AMApple’s iPhone 3.0 OS and Google’s Android run recent branches of the Open Source WebKit browser. To this end, they are able to support technologies that are only just making it to desktop browsers. In this article you can learn how you can build Web sites that target iPhone and Android Web browsers.
  • Haiku R1/Alpha 2 Released Monday, May 10, 2010 @ 5:06AMTwo news items about alternative operating system news in a row? What is this, Christmas? In any case, the Haiku project, the darling of OSNews (hey it's okay now), has released its second alpha release. This new stable development release contains some serious improvements over the first alpha.
  • Apps: Dfx, Feeder, Pavtube HD Video Converter Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 10:20AMZune HD - Operating Systems - Graphic Subsystems - X11 - Window Managers
  • Microsoft drops second IE9 preview Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 10:11AMHappiness is a codec consensus Talk about bad timing. Today, Microsoft released a second developer preview of its next Internet Explorer, just as word arrived that the browser's market share has dipped below 60 per cent and a storm of criticism hit Redmond for handling HTML 5 video with a closed codec it partly owns.…
  • Regulators mull antitrust look at Apple Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 11:44PMREGULATORS are considering an inquiry into whether Apple Inc violates antitrust law by requiring that its programing tools be used to write applications for the iPad and iPhone, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
  • Regulators mull antitrust look at Apple Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 9:07AMRegulators are considering an inquiry into whether Apple violates antitrust law by requiring that its programing tools be used to write applications for the iPad and iPhone, according to a source.
  • Source: Regulators Mull Antitrust Look at Apple Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 7:46AMRegulators are considering an inquiry into whether the company violates antitrust law by requiring that its programing tools be used to write applications for the iPad and iPhone.
  • Jobs: Why Apple banned Flash from the iPhone Thursday, April 29, 2010 @ 10:04PMIn an unusual move, Steve Jobs lays out the technical arguments for Apple's refusal to let Flash on the iPhone and suggests Adobe focus on HTML.
  • Steve Jobs Pens Public Thoughts on Flash Thursday, April 29, 2010 @ 10:57AMIn a rare public posting on Apple's Website, CEO Steve Jobs posted a piece entitled "Thoughts on Flash" early Thursday. In it, Jobs wrote about the companies'...
  • Steve Jobs Shares His Thoughts On Flash Thursday, April 29, 2010 @ 10:57AMSteve Jobs breaks his silence on Adobe Flash outlining his beef against the technology.