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Smartphones boost mobile web usage
News Mobile web usage is on the rise as more fully featured browsers come to market on smartphones. A report from ABI Research on Thursday predicts the number of smartphones with highly capable mobile browsers will grow from 130 million today to more...
[November 14, 2008, 8:38]
Google Gears gives laptops a location fix
News Because the geo-location API is the same for developers in both desktop and mobile browsers, you can even use the same code on both platforms," Charles Wiles, product manager of the Google mobile team, said in the Google Code blog post on Tuesday.
[October 22, 2008, 11:38]
pTHINC: A Thin-Client Architecture for Mobile Wireless Web
White Papers Although web applications are gaining popularity on mobile wireless PDAs, web browsers on these systems can be quite slow and often lack adequate functionality to access many web sites. This paper has developed pTHINC, a PDA thin-client solution...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Google brings search ads to iPhone, T-Mobile G1
News The iPhone and T-Mobile G1 come with almost fully-fledged web browsers, and Google is now according them that status by showing search ads on the phones. By using the "iPhones and other mobile devices with full internet browsers" option in AdWords...
[December 9, 2008, 7:15]
Feels like you've hit on something here
Talkback All that time and trouble that device manufacturers and software providers have put into enabling mobile-friendly Internet browsing - maybe the real answer doesn't lie in generic browsers at all (not even generic 'mobile browsers') but in 1000s of...
[June 5, 2009, 11:07]
Minuet Browser (Pearl/Curve Edition)
Downloads It provides superior browsing experience compared to WAP browsers and hosted browsers. Minuet is a full-featured, stand-alone HTML browser designed specifically for mobile devices. This feature requires OS versions that support those languages...
[October 16, 2006, 7:00]
Mozilla targets mobile browser market
News We have been working on mobile browsers for six years. Mozilla is hoping to move on from its success in the browser desktop market, to tackle the market for browsers on consumer devices, such as phones, PDAs and television set-top boxes.
[December 8, 2004, 15:50]
Opera 10 will be 'prettier'
News Opera, a Norwegian firm, makes browsers for devices ranging from the PC to mobile phones and games consoles. Asked whether the release of Google Chrome had had any effect on the Opera team, Lawson said the team had been "mostly pleased", due to the...
[October 13, 2008, 16:36]
MySpace Mobile: The Beginning of Cell Phone Social Networking
Blog As internet browsers have become a functional reality the computing power of the standard mobile handset has increased considerably too. Sites like MobiShaker.com, the first mobile mixed drink recipe site have emerged exclusively formatted for...
[March 23, 2008, 14:20]
Differnence in webapp en website, context and task
Talkback For the moment, all the mobile browsers are like Netscape, IE and who know what 10 years ago. If your site really, really needs a mobile version — perhaps your users are stuck with ancient browsers or you're doing something unimaginably special...
[March 26, 2009, 10:55]
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
News The market for full web browsers on mobile is set to grow substantially over the next three years and this provides Mozilla with a chance to catch-up with WebKit-based browsers such as those used within Safari on the iPhone and by Nokia on S60...
[May 14, 2008, 13:43]
Google Chrome (beta) review
Reviews According to Google says, most browsers are singled-threaded, so that when a browser starts a JavaScript process, it waits until that process ends. In its comic-book preannouncement, Google stated correctly that watching videos, chatting and even...
[September 3, 2008, 9:05]
Opera finds that small is sweet
News Microsoft has mobile browsers in their mobile platform as well, but it's a different code base. We're going to see browsers in all sorts of units, not just mobile phones or game consoles or laptops. They had to work long hours to make sure it...
[October 11, 2006, 16:05]
Opera plans March IPO
News PalmSource, Microsoft and others make browsers that compete with Opera in the mobile market. Opera had been distributing browsers for handsets from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others for several months, but until the 6600 deal it was up to the user to...
[February 9, 2004, 11:55]
Comdex 2001: Opera 6.0 beta
News The new browser version comes as Opera has enjoyed a burst of publicity courtesy of rival Microsoft, which launched a new version of its MSN Web portal last month that briefly locked out non-Microsoft browsers.
[November 14, 2001, 17:00]
Google demos Gmail mobile web app
News Building a web interface means Google can reach more phones more easily, Gundotra said, as phone browsers get more sophisticated and their internet connectivity gets better. And he touted another HTML 5 feature: "I predict we will see video tag...
[April 6, 2009, 9:28]
iCloud virtual desktop public-beta launched
News One drawback to this approach is that the virtual machine must be ported to new browsers or platforms for them to support iCloud, said Arthursson. Currently only Internet Explorer is supported, but Xcerion is planning support for browsers such as...
[April 9, 2009, 16:23]
Sneak Peeks reveals some of Adobe's thinking
News Each game runs entirely on remote servers, with the streaming video sent to devices — in much the same way some mobile browsers work. Adobe also used the demonstration to show that its ActionScript language can run on servers as well as in browsers...
[October 8, 2009, 13:39]
Opera caterwauls about new MSN glitch
News The conflict between Opera and MSN dates back to October 2001, when Microsoft rewrote MSN in such a way that Opera, AOL Time Warner's browsers, and other competitors to IE could not access the site. Certainly it's not our intent to cause any issues...
[May 22, 2003, 7:30]
Microsoft's great developer hunt
News With WPF/E, Microsoft is hoping that developers will use its tools to write Vista applications and then alter them slightly to run them on other operating systems and browsers, said Microsoft's Key. In that sense, WPF/E will be an alternative to...
[March 28, 2006, 17:15]
