Why is the EU lawsuit getting press again suddenly?

So once again we got a big media group talking about the EU lawsuit by Opera. The real question is why does this keep getting released? Or even better what standing does this have? In the past it has been ok for Microsoft to have their browser installed by default and somehow with this HORRIBLE [...]

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Google releases a way to do 3d on the web

Google today announced O3D which is a api for creating 3D apps on the web. This would be a javascript extension to allow for 3D graphics on web pages. Google is hoping this will help spark more ideas about where the web could go in the 3D direction. Of course this is interesting in other [...]

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IE8 doesn’t do Acid3 cause its not final standard

OSnews had an interesting article about Microsoft’s reason for not working on passing the Acid3 test. Their reasoning is actually very good. Why should they be supporting draft standards? Microsoft did this in the past and it backfired on them and burnt them badly with earlier version of IE. Of course people will still complain [...]

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Why are people already looking at IE8 adoption?

What is with people and looking at the IE8 adoption rate? Why does this really matter? If we look at the growth rates of browsers most are crap. Also 2.1 percent of the market is already better then both Opera and Chrome (possibly combined). What does this really mean for IE8? Nothing more then we [...]

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Chrome Experiments

So yesterday I read about this site and today finally got around to blogging about it. Chrome experiments was Google’s attempt to rain on Microsoft’s parade. So Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 today which is a huge step forward for Microsoft when it comes to being standards compliant (they actually comply to a lot of [...]

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Apple falls first in PWN2OWN contest again

Last year at CanSecWest Apples MacBook Air was hacked in 2 minutes this year its even worse with a fully updated MacBook running safari getting hacked in 10 seconds. This should be a reminders for those of you out there about the dangers of thinking your safe by using a Mac. Sorry but the day [...]

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Internet Exporer 8 Released today

Well the time has finally come. Internet Explorer 8 is out and there are still 3000+ sites incompatible with it. Of course that doesn’t really matter as IE8 just goes into compatibility mode. I tried IE8 out today (Final version I have used the beta and rc for awhile now) and I have to say [...]

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Google releases Google Chrome 2.0 beta

Google Chrome 2.0 beta has been announced today. Sadly it still doesn’t have extensions. Instead this release seems to be focused more on updates to WebKit and the JavaScript engine. Could this release be more aimed at getting the Linux and Mac versions finally out more then adding lots more features? The major features I [...]

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You can now use Chromium on Linux!

So its been awhile since Chrome 1 was released and now the same day the Beta of Chrome 2 is announced OSnews ran an interesting article for running Chromium (the open source project for Chrome) natively on Ubuntu! Not just running it but there is actually a ppa available for Jaunty and Hardy! This is [...]

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IE8 is fine when it comes to speed

Sure IE8 cannot win the the benchmarks but since when have benchmarks shown what is really faster? I always love looking at PC benchmarks cause of this since sure a graphics card may beat another one the benchmarks but everyone that follows hardware doesn’t believe which one is faster until there is real testing (for [...]

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