Pulitzer Embraces Web
The Pulitzer Prize Board announced that it will consider entries from online-only publications in addition to print outlets for the 14 journalism categories that once were prestigious but now few care about.
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Second Firefox 3.1 beta Brings Significant Changes
On Monday Mozilla released the second beta of Firefox 3.1 that comes with lots of changes. The new version features support for video and audio built into Web pages, a built-in service for telling Web sites a user's location, private browsing , Web workerand the TraceMonkey engine for running Javascript programs.
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Opera 10 Aces Acid Test
The alpha of Opera 10 was the first browser to fully comply with the Acid3 test. The latest version of the desktop browser scored 100 out of 100 on the Acid3 test, which was created to assess whether browsers comply with a range of web standards around features such as rendering and Javascript.
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Lunacore - the multi-engine browser
Lunascape includes Trident (Internet Explorer), Gecko (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari & Chrome) rendering engines allowing the user to switch on-the-fly between them.
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Sun Warns of Bugs as it Releases MySQL 5.1
Sun has released version 5.1 of the open-source MySQL database software, but the software's founder simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that are still to be fixed.
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Which Browser is King?
The best way to find out which browser suits you the most is simply to run only one test for a browser: whether it runs fast enough. A slow-loading, incompatible browser is one thing, but the real issue is whether a browser loads fast for the sites you frequently visit.
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 Soon?
Last week at Large Installation System Administration Conference(Lisa'08) Apple's director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard announced the date for Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 - 1st Quarter 2009.
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YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos
This week YouTube has started testing HD quality videos on a smattering of its content. The new format could be a big move for YouTube, as the video size is over 80mb, which means that they are probably the same H.264 encoded mp4 files available in the iTunes store.
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IE8: What's After Beta 2?
Since the release of Beta 2,the data from real people about the product has been absorbed. The IE team has combed through instrumentation of over 20 million IE sessions and hundreds of hours of usability lab sessions. Together with IE MVPs, they have scrutinized thousands of threads from user forums and examined the issues that people are raising.
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FOIA Docs Show Feds Can Lojack Mobiles Without Telco Help
Courts in recent years have been raising the evidentiary bar law enforcement agents must meet in order to obtain historical cell phone records that reveal information about a target's location. But documents obtained by civil liberties groups under a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that "triggerfish" technology can be used to pinpoint cell phones without involving cell phone providers at all.