Microsoft has released its first Service Pack for the Windows 7 operating system addressing minor OS nips and tucks. Bug fixes and security patches don't make for the most exciting Windows update, but they're the high points of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, now widely available for download.
Read MoreIt's been a week since Nokia announced its plans to adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform. How has the industry reacted? It gave everyone in the industry something to talk about during Mobile World Congress, and gave Nokia's and Microsoft's CEOs the public platform needed to quell doubters and nay-sayers.
Read MoreNative Client (NaCl), Google's attempt at bridging the gap between pure JavaScript Web apps and installed programs, creeps ever closer to a stable release, and ultimate inclusion in other browsers, including Firefox. The plug-in, which allows the browser to safely execute native compiled code, has retired its NPAPI interface in favor of Pepper (PPAPI), and now has a much-improved SDK.
Read MoreThere was quite a bit of commotion in the tech press over a Verizon ad that stated that Flash wouldn’t be making its way to Android tablets until Spring 2011. Which has the potential to be pretty far off (as late as June), especially given that the Motorola Xoom — the first tablet to run Android Honeycomb — will be coming out in a few days.
Read MoreMicrosoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer 9 at the SXSW conference on March 14. This information tallies nicely with what we already know: Microsoft has said that there will only be one RC, and March 14 very nearly fits the six-week release cycle that Internet Explorer has so far stuck to.
Read MoreMicrosoft and Mozilla traded barbs in a dispute over what constitutes a "modern" Web browser. The competitive friction is starting to heat up because the Redmond software giant and Silicon Valley nonprofit are preparing to release the next major versions of their respective Web browsers.
The new navigation bar is slowly rolled out to all Google users. After
more than 6 months of testing, the new navigation bar removes the
clutter by grouping extraneous links in a menu inspired by Google
Chrome. It also removes link underlining and replaces it with a colored
bar. There's more spacing between the links, so the new navigation bar
works better on a touchscreen device.
Opera's Desktop Team announced that the first snapshot of Opera 11.10, codename “Barracuda,” has finally arrived! In this build, Core has been upgraded from version 2.7.62 to 2.8.99, which is a pretty big step forward. With this Core upgrade comes the implementation of the Web Open Font Format (WOFF).
Read MoreOver the last few days, Mozilla's lovely Are We Pretty Yet? (AWPY) has been steadily accumulating Firefox 5 interface mock-ups. If you haven't visited AWPY before, its primary purpose is for listing and fixing bugs in the Firefox 4 UI -- but it seems it will now also be used to showcase potential interfaces for Firefox 5.
Read MoreGoogle's Demo Slam turns it up a notch with the first-ever Demo Slampionship, which just kicked off. The idea behind Demo Slam is pretty simple: pit videos of technical demos against each other for users to vote on. By doing this you to get your tech demo in front of as many eyeballs as possible, roping in those least likely to watch a standard tech demo.
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