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Google's Android Paves Way For Mobile Supremacy
News Many would argue Apple's iPhone was the first mobile computing device to allow a web page to look exactly as it does on a PC's browser. But mobile devices represent the next "big thing" for Google: uncharted territory whose development for web...
[November 7, 2007, 15:23]
Opera Updates Its Mobile Browser
News Opera has released the latest version of its free mobile web browser. Opera Mini 4 is also the first version of the mobile browser to embrace the "Speed Dial" feature built into the company's desktop browser.
[November 7, 2007, 11:03]
Google Sees Surge In Mobile Web Use
News The software shortcuts the time it takes for people to perform web searches on Google by eliminating initial search steps of finding a web browser on the phone, opening the browser, waiting for network access, and getting to the Google website.
[March 19, 2008, 7:12]
Opera Plans March IPO
News In recent months the company has also gained popularity with a version of its browser for smartphones, or mobile phones with handheld computer functions. The privately held company's revenues derive from sales of its Web browser, available on...
[February 9, 2004, 11:55]
Opera: Firefox User Figures 'inflated'
News Opera also produces a version of its browser for mobile phones, which has been downloaded over one million times and "many millions" of licences for this browser have been sold to handset manufacturers and operators, according to the Opera Web site.
[June 20, 2005, 14:15]
Google Takes Aim At A Mobile Future
News The service is free in the US and works with any phone that contains an XHTML-capable web browser. Google — the premier online company in the traditional internet world — has for the past year been focusing its attention on the mobile market.
[November 29, 2006, 8:50]
Opera Mini Racks Up One Billion Page Views
News Opera's Web browser for mobile devices, Opera Mini, has been used to view over one billion page views since it was launched seven months ago. Opera collated the information on browsing habits through its Opera Mini server, which pre-processes all...
[August 8, 2006, 17:30]
Google Expands Local Search
News One feature lets people with browser-enabled mobile phones use Google Local - a Web directory of local businesses and sights - by typing in a name and US ZIP code. Google introduced on Tuesday two new search options for mobile phones.
[April 13, 2005, 16:40]
Google Maps Out Plan For Mobile Success
News Google is aiming to make an impact in the mobile sector by focusing on web-based applications, super-fast search and location-based services. Instead, the company can focus on innovative web applications such as Google Grand Prix: the mobile...
[May 14, 2008, 8:40]
Opera Goes Mobile With AJAX
News Opera has announced a beta SDK for its mobile phone Web browser and UI package, called Opera Platform. The full Web browser has proved itself as a central application on mobile phones and is today the main source for data traffic on mobile networks...
[November 16, 2005, 10:55]
Google Fosters Ties With Developers
News In conjunction with the conference, the company on Wednesday announced Google Gears, a web browser plug-in that allows web developers to add offline access to web applications. Similarly, tools like Google Gears, available as open source, enhance...
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
Trolltech Enhances Mobile Linux Platform
News Trolltech also announced on Monday that it had integrated Qt with WebKit, the web browser technology used in Apple's iPhone, as well as millions of Nokia smartphones. Trolltech suggested that this development would make it possible to port "Web 2.0...
[February 11, 2008, 8:42]
Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog Comment Google would provide in the browser custom APIs asmJavascript libraries to integrate with the platform and custon Javacript UI compomenents. Option 3) No JVM, but a powerfull mobile Web Browser ala Safari, based on the Safari WebKit, which is open...
[November 6, 2007, 8:12]
BenQ Lands Mobile Deal With Google
News The Google services were available through the phone's menu of options, so a user wouldn't need to use a handset that supported a full Web browser. Mobile phone maker BenQ has secured an agreement will allow it to pre-install a range of Google...
[March 8, 2006, 11:00]
Welcome To 'Google On Your Phone'
News The danger for the operator is this: once your customer finds out how to activate their Internet browser, find Google and bookmark it, they need never see your portal again. Google is preset as the homepage on the phones.
[October 18, 2005, 18:30]
Mozilla Could Form Base Of A Google Browser
News Rumours flew around the Web on Tuesday about Google's potential plans to release a Web browser. A Google spokesman refused to comment on reports surrounding the 'Google browser', but analysts believe they may have some substance.
[September 21, 2004, 18:15]
Apple Rings The Changes With The IPhone
News The iPhone also comes loaded with Apple's Safari web browser and fully incorporates Google's search and mapping services. Users can make phone calls directly from Google Maps. In one of the most anticipated gadget announcements in recent years...
[January 10, 2007, 7:46]
Mozilla Expands As Firefox Ploughs On
News On the mobile front, Mozilla on Monday released Minimo 007, the latest version of the pre-release mobile browser with an interface built in XUL. As it marked the 75 millionth download of its Firefox Web browser, the Mozilla Foundation said it was...
[July 27, 2005, 13:25]
Gnome Linux Desktop Updated
News The Gnome project has released the first test version of Gnome 2.22 this week, including a new web-browser engine, a new virtual file system and updates for virtual network computing and accessibility.
[January 31, 2008, 17:11]
Business Users Meet Gatecrashers At UK IPhone Launch
News That's the only backwards step here," said Sellers, who currently uses Windows Mobile but is looking forward to the iPhone's bigger screen and better browser. Web designer Miles Tinsley, a self-employed and established Mac fan, seemed keen to make...
[November 12, 2007, 12:24]
