Stand-alone Flash Player Comes To Pocket PC
News Macromedia has released Flash Player 6 for the Pocket PC 2002 platform, in a release that builds on the company's new strategy of taking Flash content outside of the Web browser. The player is the first to allow Pocket PC users to view Flash...
[April 1, 2003, 12:54]
Microsoft Patents 'HTML Applications'
News According the application, the patent (no.covers writing a standard HTML file that runs in its own window outside of the browser. The patent paves the way for what it calls HTML applications -- a new file type that windows would interpret as a...
[December 10, 2003, 11:30]
Microsoft On Trial: Microsoft Attacks DoJ Case
News District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, Microsoft outside counsel John Warden asked Netscape CEO James Barksdale when Netscape first became aware that Microsoft would begin including an Internet browser with the Windows operating system.
[October 22, 1998, 9:49]
Microsoft: DoJ Case All Bluster, No Proof
News For example, Microsoft said DoJ attorneys are using a narrow definition, such as software that runs on Intel-compatible PCs, but then they are accusing Microsoft of trying to combat products that are outside that market, products such as Java and...
[September 13, 1999, 8:59]
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]
IE Flaw Gets Second Third-party Patch
News Determina, which makes intrusion-prevention products, made an unofficial fix for the Microsoft Web browser available on Monday. Instead, people should follow Microsoft's advice and disable the Active Scripting feature in IE, or simply use a...
[March 29, 2006, 9:20]
Microsoft On Trial: Tempers Grow Short In Courtroom
News On a separate occasion, Warden pressed Barksdale to answer questions regarding the impact Microsoft had on Netscape's ability to innovate, saying that Netscape has released more than a half-dozen different versions of its Web browser software...
[October 22, 1998, 9:23]
Collaborating By Groove
News Wasn't the Web browser supposed to give people access to information everywhere? The browser does indeed give people access to information. It is the ultimate access tool, but the browser is at odds with another trend.
[March 16, 2004, 10:55]
US Report: AOL 4.0 Assimilates The Net
News AOL 4.0, a complete upgrade set for a well-publicized release Monday, includes tighter integration of Internet content into the service, along with an upgraded Web browser. Internet Explorer piggy backs AOL Since October 1996, AOL's software has...
[September 29, 1998, 11:45]
Spyware And The Law
News Examples of this are applications that facilitate pop-up browser windows, redirect browser home pages and add favourite sites to browser lists. Keep your software (particularly your operating system and browser) properly configured, patched and up...
[November 4, 2004, 16:08]
Web Giants Mull Taskbar
News Some major Web portals are trying to get an edge in the competitive Internet search market by thinking outside of the browser. Internet search is breaking out of the browser, as ordinary desktop applications like Microsoft's Word take on Web-like...
[January 12, 2004, 14:40]
Flash Goes Solo
News Macromedia hopes to make its Flash animation player a "first-class citizen" on PCs with a new addition that allows the software to operate outside of a Web browser. You'll see a lot of people providing a browser experience and then offering an...
[March 27, 2003, 7:40]
Smart Client Deployment With Windows Forms
White Papers The Smart Client is an application that runs outside of the browser taking advantage of the Windows Operating System. This session will cover the issues and capabilities of Smart Client applications. The biggest challenge to these applications has...
[November 11, 2003, 23:00]
Enterprise Information Portals In Health Care: Why Now?
White Papers Portals apply Internet technology and a standard Web browser interface, to allow users from across and outside the enterprise access to information. We now live in the "knowledge economy. The competitiveness of health care providers depends on the...
[January 30, 2004, 23:00]
IPACS Enterprise - An Innovation
White Papers RealTimeImage’s Pixels-on-DemandTM streaming technology enables an iPACS Enterprise user, with a standard PC, a network connection (as low as dial up), and a web browser, to work with almost the same conditions that the radiologist enjoys inside...
[December 23, 2003, 23:00]
Red Hat Embraces Outside Programmers
News The new beta, code-named Severn, includes a new boot process, programming tools, email software and a Web browser, Red Hat said. Red Hat released a new test version of its Linux operating system on Monday, along with a new development process that...
[July 23, 2003, 7:43]
Adobe Looks To The Future As Flash Turns 10
News Now, according to company executives, Adobe is trying to make Flash more of a general-purpose application development platform, one that focuses on video delivery, applications for mobile devices and Web applications that run outside the browser.
[August 9, 2006, 10:30]
Next IE Will Ship Before Longhorn
News In announcing the plan, Gates acknowledged something that many outside the company had been arguing for some time -- that the browser itself has become a security risk. Reversing a longstanding Microsoft policy, Bill Gates said on Tuesday that the...
[February 16, 2005, 7:55]
Yahoo Launches Developer Network With Widget Buy
News And what's really great is that they're starting to open it up to everyone in a format that's useable outside the traditional browser, as XML feeds. Yahoo's acquisition comes as it is looking for ways to get outside developers more involved with...
[July 26, 2005, 10:40]
Opera Reveals Version 10 Vision
News The company will also develop more Widgets — HTML and Javascript web applications that run outside of the browser. Opera wants version 10 to work on and across any platform, a continuation of its work to make Opera 9 compatible with different...
[July 28, 2006, 14:10]

