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Souped-up Wi-Fi handset includes Web browsing and email
News The Wi-Fi phone market is set to heat up, with a maker announcing a handset that can do Web browsing and email, in addition to voice. IP Talk, a subsidiary of electronics firm Mitsubishi Electric, will sell a phone that works on voice-over-Internet...
[July 2, 2003, 9:19]
Slows browsing to a crawl
Member Review Browsing slowed so much that pages wouldn't load. I've used NAV for years. The horror stories I've heard with Norton Utilities have made their way into NAV 2004 Pro. Live Update wouldn't work so I had to download updates from the Symantec Web site.
[March 10, 2004, 18:05]
Microsoft offers tabbed browsing in IE 6
News Weeks after promising tabs in its upcoming IE 7 release, Microsoft made the long-awaited browsing feature available for IE 6 through its MSN toolbar. Last month, Microsoft confirmed speculation that it would offer tabbed browsing in the upcoming IE 7.
[June 9, 2005, 10:30]
Sharing and Browsing Photo Collections Through RDF Geo-Metadata
White Papers This paper explores the kinds of metadata that can be captured at the time a photo is taken, and ways to share these metadata in order to build a browsing experience of distributed photo collections based on their spatial information and relations.
[January 7, 2007, 0:00]
Mobile offers dual WAP, HTML browsing
News The world's first mobile phone to support both WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HTML browsing debuted at this week's GSM World Congress in Cannes. Although the data transfer speeds on today's GSM network make HTML browsing unworkable, the...
[February 2, 2000, 13:25]
Sharing, Discovering and Browsing Geotagged Pictures on the Web
White Papers The paper proposes an approach to providing a new browsing experience of photo collections based on location and heading information metadata. In recent years the availability of GPS devices and the development in web technologies has produced a...
[June 5, 2007, 1:00]
'Basic' tabbed browsing to come in IE7
News Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming version of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser will include tabbed browsing, a feature made popular by competitors Opera and Firefox. Making the announcement in a Microsoft blog, IE product unit manager Dean...
[May 17, 2005, 9:50]
Mouseless Browsing
Downloads Mouseless Browsing lets you browse the web entirely with the keyboard, with no need for using your mouse. The product works by using small boxes with unique ids behind every link and/or form element. You just have to type in the id to trigger the...
[June 8, 2009, 6:02]
Firefox 'private browsing' mode released to testers
News Mozilla on Monday released a new 'private browsing' feature to testers of Minefield, Mozilla's testbed application for new browser innovations. Monday's Minefield build included said privacy mode in all its glory, giving browser users the freedom...
[November 5, 2008, 9:25]
Oracle and Akamai cache in on faster browsing
News Oracle and Akamai Technologies have partnered to create a technology they hope will become a new Internet standard for speeding up Web browsing. The technology behind the potential standard would largely be invisible to Web surfers, but it would...
[April 30, 2001, 12:10]
From Web Browsing to Social Networking: Securing Employee Internet Use in a Web 2.0 World
White Papers It is no longer about e-mail and web browsing. The Internet has changed. Instead Internet traffic is dominated by Web 2.0 applications such as Video, Voice, IM (Instant Messaging), P2P, and social networking.
[July 1, 2009, 1:19]
Freeserve founder pushes private browsing
News The founder of Freeserve has unveiled his latest venture — a Web-browsing tool that claims to preserve the privacy of its users. Browzar, as Ajaz Ahmed's brainchild is called, is a free application that can be downloaded and either saved to the...
[August 31, 2006, 13:25]
SocialBrowsing: Integrating Social Networks and Web Browsing
White Papers This paper introduces SocialBrowsing, a Firefox extension that adds social context to the web browsing experience. The extension is paired with services provided by social networking websites, analyzes the page's contents, and adds tooltips and...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Opera Mini 5 beta offers tabbed browsing
News The beta, which introduces tabbed browsing, touchscreen operations and password management to the popular browser, was announced on Wednesday. Opera has released a beta version of its latest mobile-phone web browser, Opera Mini 5.
[September 17, 2009, 16:49]
Secure Web Browsing With the OP Web Browser
White Papers To enable more secure web browsing, the paper designs and implements a new browser, called the OP web browser, that attempts to improve the state-of-the-art in browser security. Current web browsers are plagued with vulnerabilities, providing...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
The Seamless Browser: Enhancing the Speed of Web Browsing by Zooming and Preview Thumbnails
White Papers This paper presents a new web browsing system, Seamless Browser, for fast link traversal on a large screen like TV In navigating web, users mainly suffer from cognitive overhead of determining whether or not to follow links.
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Phorm accused of making web browsing 'less stable'
News While Phorm could always just switch off its web server in the event of attack, said Clayton, he said the system makes browsing the internet "more complicated and less stable. A spokesperson for Phorm denied on Thursday that users would experience...
[April 17, 2008, 15:52]
Microsoft zooms in on mobile browsing
News Microsoft has launched the preview version of Deepfish, a web-browsing technology for mobile devices that aims to mimic the experience of a full-fledged computer browser. The program enables web browsing that presents sites as they would appear on...
[April 2, 2007, 9:14]
Opera software could solve phone browsing conundrum
News The company's approach to Web browsing by cell phone and other small devices is just the latest strategy to overcome a difficult technological conundrum -- how to access Web pages built for 17-inch desktop screens on cell phones that fit in shirt...
[October 14, 2002, 8:48]
Social Semantic Search and Browsing
White Papers This presentation discusses motivation, how people search, search and browsing lifecycle, applying semantics and making use of social networks such as keyword-based search, faceted navigation and collaborative filtering.
[October 6, 2007, 1:00]
