Mozilla showed a sneak preview of the eventual new look for Firefox for Android. The design will be slightly changed as the browser window tab management will be moved to the right side of the location bar and the location bar itself will get rounded corners. The important changes will be to the the current XML User Interface Language which will be replaced by native Android code.
Three free Firefox add-ons automatically back up the text which you type while entering data in web forms so that you won't lose it if the the page freezes or you accidentally close it. If you want to be able to recover your web form data you can choose between Lazarus: Form Recovery, Textarea Cache and Clippings.
Read MoreUntil now VMware has been offering development platforms for Java and Ruby and apps for other JVM languages and frameworks. With its latest update VMware Cloud Foundry cloud platform already supports .Net. The company took this step only a day after Microsoft announced plans for supporting open-source tools on the Windows Azure cloud platform.
Read MoreGoogle has integrated Gmail and Contacts with Google+ so that now you can add people to your circles, filter emails and contacts by circles, automatically create and update all your friends contact information through the use of their Google profile and share photos to Google+, all right from Gmail and Contacts.
Read MoreGetJar CEO Iljas Laurs noted that Android isn't already as open a platform as Google says because the company is restricting what kinds of Android apps are developed and the technologies used for their creation. He commented that the 30 percent cut of the revenue generated from apps paid out to Google seems to be a tax on developers.
Read MoreAccording to the results from a study by the research firm Strategy Analytics HTML5-compatible mobile phones will reach sales of 1 billion in 2013. At the moment their number is 336 million which includes HTML5-enabled Android devices and iPhone 4S. But lately companies like Apple, Adobe, Google, and Microsoft focus their work on developing HTML5 innovations supported on almost all major mobile platforms.
Read MoreGoogle demonstrated their new technology that secures the Web and makes browsers more powerful at the company's headquarters south of San Francisco. The company showed games known for their processor-intensive graphics running in the new version of the Chrome browser but it will also support photo editing, 3D modeling and video training software applications.
Read MoreThe security firm Accuvant reported the results from a recent study regarding the security features of the top three web browsers. The report says that Mozilla’s Firefox is missing many modern security safeguards while Internet Explorer was rated nearly as secure as Google Chrome.
Read MoreAccording to the recent statement of the Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt Android is already ahead of the iPhone but there are 6 Android issues that the company doesn't want to discuss. Some of them are the lack of Android updates, the hardware failures and the security problems with its application and the bloatware installed by the handset manufacturers.
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