Microsoft’s new browser won’t enable ‘Do Not Track’ by default
Microsoft admits that when it switched on “do not track” by default in Internet Explorer 10 back in 2012, it was “welcomed by many.” However, the company now has to switch it off to comply with the latest industry standard. The newest World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) draft for the feature says it “MUST reflect […]
Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand
SAN FRANCISCO — Cue the dirge for Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s much maligned browser. Soon the brand will be (mostly) no more. Microsoft has hinted that Internet Explorer brand was going to be scrapped. Now it’s official. Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s head of marketing, made the announcement Monday at the Microsoft Convergence conference. Microsoft is placing […]
HTTP/2: New infrastructure for the internet is ready, and could speed up the web for everyone
HTTP/2, a new version of the protocol that lets computers download information from the internet, has been formally approved and could speed up the web for everyone. The group behind the protocol announced this morning that work on the specification is done, and that it will now be checked over and published. It is […]
Mozilla loses Web technology guru Chris Blizzard
Chris Blizzard, a high-profile figure in the Firefox world, has left his job as Mozilla’s director of Web platform to join a startup. “I’m trying something new and starting in the next week or so I’m going to be joining a very small startup that’s based in Palo Alto,” Blizzard said in his announcement last […]
Your Internet privacy is in Congress’s hands now
I had a long talk with the president last week (yes, that president) about how my readers were clamoring for something like an Internet privacy bill of rights so that they could tell those nosy online advertising companies to piss off. What do you know? Thursday morning, the White House called on Congress and the […]
Microsoft: Google bypassed IE privacy settings too
In the wake of reports that Google had sidestepped privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser, Microsoft announced today it had discovered that the Web giant had done the same with Internet Explorer. whilen the IE staff heard that Google had bypassed user privateness settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a easy query: is Google circumventing […]
Mozilla’s plan for 2012: Break the ecosystem lock
Mozilla is best known as the developer of Firefox, but it’s reaching well beyond the browser with a 2012 strategy that strives to use the open Web to counteract ecosystem lock-in. Firefox embodied Mozilla’s attempt to counter the damage that Microsoft’s browser dominance caused on the internet. however now, as found out in Mozilla 2012 […]
Apple supplier Foxconn hit by hackers
Apple supplier Foxconn now has another crisis on its hands. A workforce of hackers known as Swagg safety is taking credit score for a breach of Foxconn community safety, ensuing within the theft of usernames, passwords, and different non-public data. In a sequence of Twitter posts the day past, the crowd boasted that it publicly […]
Three years on, Chrome at last arrives on Android
Google today released a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android, a momentous step that marries two of Google’s most important programming projects. The new browser, unlike the stock Android browser, is available in the Android Market so that people don’t have to wait for handset makers to offer it through an operating system […]
Will Silverlight live or die? Microsoft won’t say
Being a Silverlight developer these days is like being a fan of the Oakland Athletics, the baseball team made famous in the Oscar-nominated film Moneyball. Some heritage, for many who are not followers of the A’s: for just about 3 years now, A’s fanatics and staff ownership itself had been looking ahead to prime League […]