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Netscape 8.0 (beta) review
Reviews AOL/Netscape's motivation for releasing a Mozilla-style browser is clear: Recapture lost surfers and send them back to the Netscape portal over and over and over again. Given this browser's unique talent -- rendering in two different engines -- a...
[March 4, 2005, 12:55]
Web leak lets Red Hat out of the bag
News Web surfers were able to download software updates and release notes describing what's in the package at a third-party download site, according to postings to a Red Hat mailing list. Red Hat 8 uses the Mozilla Web browser but no longer includes the...
[September 26, 2002, 7:21]
Web search finds local angle
News Search engines with their feelers out for regional data on Web pages can pick it up and deliver query results related to Web surfers' location. One software company aims to make searching for local businesses on the Web more intuitive, especially...
[February 17, 2003, 8:51]
Opera software could solve phone browsing conundrum
News That way, surfers only have to scroll up and down to read it. Another strategy has been to let cell phone surfers scroll normal HTML pages side to side and up and down, giving them a postage stamp-sized view of the whole page.
[October 14, 2002, 8:48]
Web content: Will users ever pay?
News But he also faces the challenge of convincing Web surfers to pay to access archived online content. Why do you think Internet surfers will be willing to pay for KeepMedia? Despite the Web's transformation into a major publishing platform...
[August 4, 2003, 13:25]
Web developers wary of AOL switch
News As the world's largest Internet service provider, AOL controls about 5 percent of the browser market -- not enough to dislodge IE, which is used by more than 80 percent of all Web surfers. In one high-profile dispute last fall, for example...
[March 27, 2002, 12:31]
Web search for cash brings results
News is experimenting with a new search interface that will feature simplicity and give Web surfers greater access to information within search results, Cadogan said. Executives of leading Web search companies see rosy days ahead for their technology.
[March 6, 2003, 10:00]
Web attacks: Are ISPs doing enough?
News In the wake of the recent Denial of Service attacks against eight major Web sites, including ZDNet, personal security has become less of an add-on and more of a must-have feature for Internet surfers.
[February 22, 2000, 9:13]
Web attackers knock out Microsoft sites
News A denial-of-service attack overloads a site's servers with a flood of data, effectively blocking surfers from accessing the site. Network attackers overwhelmed Microsoft's connection to the Internet on Thursday, causing traffic to the company's...
[January 26, 2001, 8:18]
Web outage blamed on zombies
News Using compromised home computers, the attackers sent a flood of data to the DNS servers, preventing them from providing that translation and effectively shutting surfers out of the four companies' pages, according to Akamai.
[June 17, 2004, 9:35]
Sites bow to Microsoft's browser king
News Other IE alternatives from companies such as Opera Software are also winning fans and giving Web surfers more choice than ever before. IE is used by more than 85 percent of all Web surfers by many counts, and may go even higher.
[July 8, 2002, 11:31]
Are you a secret Googlewhacker?
News Named after the popular Google search engine, Googlewhacks, and the game of finding them (or Googlewhacking), are the latest pursuit of legions of bored and increasingly obsessed Web surfers searching for the next big thing.
[January 30, 2002, 14:19]
Firefox storms ahead in Europe
News XiTi, which says it monitors more than 148,000 Web sites, showed the biggest Firefox share in Finland, where more than 30 percent of Web surfers used Firefox; Germany, with more than 24 percent, and Hungary, with 22 percent.
[June 7, 2005, 11:55]
Icann asks VeriSign to suspend Web redirect
News The agency that oversees Internet domain names has asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects Web surfers to its own site when they seek to access unassigned Web addresses, rather than return an error message.
[September 22, 2003, 8:35]
Court rules for Web users in privacy case
News In a ruling that marks a victory for privacy proponents, a federal appeals panel is allowing a group of Web surfers to sue a company that gathered certain data about them without their consent. The decision, handed down on Friday by the First...
[May 13, 2003, 12:26]
Net users bypass browser
Talkback Bogus reporting - the Nielsen//NetRatings figures indicate that 75 per cent of web surfers ALSO use apps other than browsers (i.e. NOT that use of other Internet apps is ‘dwarfing’ the use of web browsers).
[January 9, 2004, 10:26]
Mozilla nibbles at Microsoft browser lead
News For the month ended 21 June, 95.3 percent of all Web surfers used various versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to access Web sites included in the survey. Microsoft's iron grip on the Web browser market has slipped ever so slightly...
[June 25, 2002, 9:21]
IE7 linked to possible phishing scam
News An attacker can use an error message displayed by the latest Microsoft browser to send web surfers to malicious websites that will display with the address of a trusted site, such as a bank, Aviv Raff, a developer in Israel, wrote on his website.
[March 15, 2007, 8:33]
Microsoft launches space tours on the web
News Microsoft on Monday launched its WorldWide Telescope, a free web-based program that allows web surfers to explore galaxies, star systems and distant planets. The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from...
[May 13, 2008, 13:29]
Symantec, Ask team up on web-safety ratings
News Search engine Ask is partnering with Symantec to offer web surfers ratings on the safety level of sites in search results, the companies were set to announce on Tuesday. Safe Search offers the ratings directly in the search experience so users can...
[February 3, 2009, 10:14]
