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Microsoft / software

Microsoft’s IE9 browser ratchets up 27 downloads per second

Thursday, Mar 17, 2011Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

Released on Monday, it looks like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is off to a flying start, with the company reporting that the new browser was downloaded 2.35 million times in the …

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Microsoft / web

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 annoys before it’s even begun

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Doing our best to forgive and forget the beastly browser creations that Microsoft has foisted upon us in the past, we thought we’d give their shiny new Internet Explorer 9 a spin.

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Microsoft / software

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser gets global release

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 - by Lee J.

With one of the longest press releases we’ve read in a long while, Microsoft has launched its next-generation desktop Web browser, Internet Explorer 9.

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Google / web

Chrome browser hits version 9, complete with Chrome Web Store

Friday, Feb 4, 2011Friday, Feb 4, 2011 - by Pete Railton

It became our de facto browser after Firefox crashed one time too often, and now Google’s Chrome browser has hit the giddy heights of version 9.

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computing / Google

Google introduces Chrome Web Store, shows off Chrome OS laptop

Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Google has been providing updates about their Chrome range of products, including news about the Chrome OS and the official announcement of the Chrome Web Store.

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Android / mobiles

Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo ready to download

Friday, Oct 8, 2010 - by mike s

Mozilla has announced that the first Firefox 4 beta for mobile is now available and waiting your downloading pleasure.

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web

Xmarks browser sync service to close Jan 2011. Boo!

Tuesday, Sep 28, 2010Tuesday, Sep 28, 2010 - by Lee J. - 2 Comments.

We were a little miffed to receive an email from the Xmarks team today notifying us that they will be shutting down their free browser synchronisation services on January 10, …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Skyfire Android browser serves up Flash videos, hits one million downloads

Thursday, Sep 16, 2010Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Billing itself as a browser built for the social media generation, the latest version of the Skyfire 2.0 beta app for Android is now available to download.

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Google / web

Google.com logo explodes in an animated spectacular

Tuesday, Sep 7, 2010Tuesday, Sep 7, 2010 - by Pete Railton

We’ve always enjoyed Google’s penchant for posting up topical Google logo designs, but today’s Google.com affair is a bit different to most.

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computing / web

Firefox 4 Beta adds well sorted multi-touch support [video]

Thursday, Aug 12, 2010Thursday, Aug 12, 2010 - by Lee J.

Mozilla has released its latest version of the Firefox 4 Beta, with the updated browser packing a truckload of bug fixes and some mighty impressive mullti-touch functionality.

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Google / web / Windows

Internet Explorer soars while Firefox gets a kick in the goolies

Monday, Aug 2, 2010Sunday, Aug 1, 2010 - by mike s

Microsoft continues to revive the fortunes of its once-ailing Internet Explorer (IE), with new figures from NetMarketShare reporting that the browser has  increased its share of the browser market in …

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Google / web

Use Google Chrome “like a pro” with this bumper list of fave extensions

Friday, Jul 16, 2010Friday, Jul 16, 2010 - by Pete Railton

We’ve been faffing about like mad between Firefox and Chrome for months now, unable to decide which browser to stick with.

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Opera Mini 5.1 For Android shimies into limelight, shuns beta tag

Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Casting off its beta tag with careless abandon is Opera Mini 5.1 For Android, an alternative mobile web browser which is deemed to now have sufficient polish to  warrant ‘full …

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Apple / Google / Microsoft / web

Google Chrome shimmies past Safari in the US, IE still rules

Monday, Jun 28, 2010 - by Lee J.

Like Billy Whizz on a bag of Columbian marching powder, Google’s internet browser Chrome has zipped past Apple’s Safari for the first time in the US to grab third place …

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Apple / software / web

Apple releases Safari 5 web browser with added HTML5 and Bing

Tuesday, Jun 8, 2010Monday, Jun 7, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Curiously absent from yesterday’s WWDC10 keynote speech by Steve Jobs was any mention of the expected update to their Safari browser. Instead, a press release came shuffling out from Apple …

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