Support for chatting in landscape mode is the most noticeable new capability hammered into version 1.1. Turning the iPhone to the side slides up the virtual QWERTY, but it also shrinks the visible chat space to a line or two, the typical trade-off.
One of the greatest strengths of the Firefox Web browser is its powerful extension system, which gives third-party developers the ability to expand the browser's capabilities. The darker side of Firefox add-ons was exposed last week when a conflict between the developers of the two popular extensions got out of hand. The situation has compelled Mozilla to propose a policy change aimed at curbing bad behavior in add-ons.
Viigo has been the favorite for Windows Mobile phones to date, but the new application iBrowz beta provides a familiar widget paradigm for subscribing to feeds, and a sharp-looking reader.
According to Forrester Research, 60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser. Meanwhile, your IT department spends a decent amount of time erecting barriers to prevent browser upgrades. Bottom line: companies need a browser policy, or they will risk productivity losses.
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Read MoreFifteen years ago, two computer scientists sat at their desks in a research lab in what is today Telenor, Norway’s telecommunications incumbent, itching to begin a new project. They were going to build their own Web browser. Those first keystrokes would become Opera, the browser that has set — and continues to set — the standard for browser innovation.
Mozilla released beta 3.5 of Firefox that includes better performance, several new Web programming features, and a private browsing mode. Mozilla switched to the version 3.5 name after concluding the changes were more significant than it envisioned earlier. Mozilla has said earlier the fourth beta will the last, with more polished release candidates expected before the final version of Firefox 3.5 is released.
Google excited Android developers with an early version of its software developer kit for Android 1.5, the upcoming version of its mobile operating system. Included with it is a list of new features coming out, many of them suspiciously familiar to those Apple's iPhone already has. But here's one, that the iPhone doesn't have: Live Folders.
On Friday, bloggers Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera posted about a new technology Microsoft is readying for Windows 7 users that is designed to allow them to run legacy Windows XP apps via PC virtualization technology. Microsoft admitted later that the existence of this feature in a Windows Business blog post.
VMware announced its cloud operating system-dubbed vSphere 4-with plans for general availability in the second quarter. VMware is attempting to bridge virtualized data centers-now known as "private clouds"-and growing cloud computing services from the likes of Amazon.com and others.