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With Boot to Gecko, Mozilla says the web should be the platform for mobile devices
HANOVER, Germany--Mozilla says that mobile devices should be independent of the constraints of operating systems or captive software, but instead should be open-source devices in which the web itself
Mozilla releases Firefox 9, updates it the next day
Mozilla released Firefox 9 earlier this week, which incorporates new capabilities in its JavaScript engine that greatly speed up its performance. After more than a year in development, Type Inference
Yahoo building cloud-serving engine for internal use, plans to use open source
Yahoo intends to release the code that the company is currently developing as part of its internal cloud-serving engine. Todd Papaioannou, Yahoo's vice president of cloud architecture described
Flaw in Android OS makes data vulnerable
Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) is working on a patch to fix a flaw in the Android operating system that would allow a malicious website to obtain the contents of any file stored on the device's SD card.
Accelerometer awareness coming to Chromium
Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) has added accelerometer APIs (Application Programming Interface) to its WebKit HTML renderer, reports Ars Technica. Designed to bring awareness of the user's current screen
Safari 5: Faster, better HTML 5 support
Apple ( NASDAQ: AAPL ) released Safari 5 on Monday, saying that its optimized Nitro JavaScript engine is "up to 30 percent faster than Safari 4." And performance is indeed better, according to
Microsoft: Internet Explorer 9 will be faster
Among other topics, Microsoft was also heard talking about Internet Explorer 9 at PDC 2009, held in Los Angeles this week. Specifically, the Redmond-based software giant shared about how it is
Web-based malware on the rise
Research from Dasient highlighted the sobering fact that more than 640,000 websites and 5.8 million pages are infected with malware in Q3 of 2009 alone. Some common vectors for malware infection
Stallman warns against non-free JavaScript code
Richard Stallman, free software activist and founder of the GNU Project, has warned the FOSS community of falling into the trap of non-free JavaScript. Addressing adherents to the free software
Skyfire brings rich media to mobile web browser market
Skyfire is taking aim at the big mobile web browsers--namely Safari and Opera--with a product that supports something the others don't: rich media (and streaming video and audio capabilities). Unlike
