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This morning, I surfed over to Walmart.com on my iPhone looking for a dinghy anchor, of all things and was met with the new iPhone Beta version of their site.  “Wow, this is great” I thought as I looked through everything including a shopping list that was just like a… Continue Reading »

The past month has seen a lot of Internet browser upgrades.  Just about every major browser has been updated recently, each getting faster, supporting newer standards and adding features that might now seem standard.  Given that, each browser underwent an upgrade, it wouldn’t have been surprising to see the numbers… Continue Reading »

Apple released a statement today that their new web browser, Safari 4 has been downloaded by both Mac and Windows users over 11 million times in just three days of its full version release.  Additional, data released by Apple indicates that at least 6 million of these 11 million downloads… Continue Reading »

Wednesday was day one of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest, and the results are in.  Using fully patched copies of Safari, IE8, and Firefox, hackers broke them all.  They each failed to what is called hacker “Nils.” The Pwn2Own contest challenges experts in security to find and exploit vulnerabilities in… Continue Reading »

And the boys continue to fight over who’s is bigger.  I wonder if they all drive red cars?  This latest round in the Google/Microsoft bru-haha features Google wanting to hop in bed with those battling Microsoft in an effort to prove antitrust charges having to do with the software giant’s… Continue Reading »

In case you don’t own a Kindle, or a different e-book reader, but would still like to read on the go, Safari Books might be just the service for you.  Safari Books Online is already a prominent digital literature source, but today they announced the creation of a mobile site… Continue Reading »

After surviving US and European Antitrust lawsuits for bundling their Internet Explorer browser with Windows, Microsoft is finally feeling the hit from a group they never expected — the consumer.  It seems that less and less people are using the built in IE browser and are switching to better browsers,… Continue Reading »

Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-Chief executive and chief executive of mobile devices says we’ll see a Windows Mobile 6.5 device by the 2nd half of 2009.  This is the first mention of 6.5 that I am aware of and points to a half step before WinMo 7 which we’ve been waiting… Continue Reading »

A couple of weeks have passed since the T-Mobile/Google event and my uneasy silence hasn’t dissipated.  Sure, I am impressed that beloved Google is involved, the apps are cool and don’t even get me started about compass mode in maps.  Very cool stuff.  But it doesn’t matter.  Here are the… Continue Reading »

Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. Rumored to be “soon” or even next week, Firefox Mobile Alpha will be released onto the Nokia N810 internet tablet.  Sure to be the first of many releases, the new web browser designed for mobile devices is sure to mix things… Continue Reading »