Mozilla announced that its Firefox Home iPhone application has been accepted to the App Store, and is available for downloading. The program is not a full-fledged version of Firefox, but instead is a spin-off of the bookmark and tab synchronization technology it currently offers as an add-on to the desktop browser.
Read MoreAfter being dogged by problems with the iPhone 4, Apple today held a press conference announcing what it hopes will solve the problem for good. As the NYTimes predicted, Apple didn’t issue a sweeping recall. Instead I can summarize Apple’s response in five words “free case until September 30.”
Read MoreiPad owners who are still upset that Apple won't allow Flash in iOS might soon have a solution. A new application for jailbroken iPads called Frash allows owners to run Flash in their Mobile Safari browser. The app was developed by Comex, a company that created the Spirit jailbreak.
Apple has released the much anticipated OS X 10.6.4 update. This update addresses a number of specific issues with the OS, including compatibility with Adobe CS3, SMB networking, VPN connections, and trackpad issues on MacBook systems.
Read MoreBest Buy will carry the iPhone 4 starting June 24, the first day of the gadget's availability anywhere, the retailer confirmed Monday.
After announcing that WebKit on Mac OS X has support for CSS 3D transforms, now it comes on Windows too! It allows you to position
elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS. Also, the CSS 3D Transforms are fully Hardware Accelerated, so this gives you major speed gain!
Just after the announcement of the new iPhone 4 at WWDC, Apple announced the release of Safari 5 for Windows and Mac. A huge part of Safari 5 is the mainstream availably of a large number of HTML5 features. Previously, many of these features have been available on nightly builds of Webkit—which are essentially Safari 4 wrapped around cutting-edge builds of Apple’s web rendering engine. With the release of Safari 5, Apple is rolling out support for full-screen video and closed-captioning on HTML5 video, Geolocation, sectioning elements, draggable attribute, forms validation, Ruby, AJAX History, EventSource, and WebSockets.
The iPhone 4 got a preemptive teardown on Monday courtesy of CEO Steve Jobs at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. One of the key goals is to pack more features and functionality into a smaller space: at 9.3mm thick, the device will be 24 percent thinner than its predecessor.
Read MoreGoogle announced today the official release of Chrome 5 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It arrives less than a month after Google made the new version available through its beta channel. This release reflects Chrome's rapid pace of evolution and Google's strong commitment to advancing Web technology and performance.
As of Tuesday morning, the 8GB iPhone 3G is no longer for sale on Apple's Web site. Apple has been offering a steep discount on the 3G(not the 3GS) since last year and now it appears customers no longer have the option to buy it online at all. Apple hasn't responded to a request for comment about it.
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