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Opera Software on Thursday announced a deal with Samsung Electronics to deliver Opera Mobile on Samsung mobile handsets. Opera Mobile, the company's standards-compliant Web browser for advanced mobile phones, uses Opera's small screen rendering technology to reformat Web pages, and it allows users t...
Use of the Internet Explorer browser continues to fall as rivals such as Firefox gain converts, but the release of IE7 may help Microsoft wrest back some of its lost market share, according to a new report. The share of total browser use attributed to Internet Explorer fell in October to 81.3 percen...
The status of Latin and COBOL are quite similar. Neither is really dead, both are deeply ingrained, intertwined and embedded in our contemporary world. The former in many of our written and spoken languages, and the latter is the underpinning of much of the world's existing data systems. If you igno...
Microsoft is making greater portions of its Sender ID framework, a security standard designed to ensure that e-mails come from legitimate sources, available under its Open Specification Promise program. At one time, the standard -- which is used alone or in combination with others by most of the ma...
Microsoft on Monday announced a new beta version of Windows Live OneCare. Version 1.5 of the security software is compatible with Vista and available as a free download. OneCare is the company's all-in-one, automatic and self-updating PC care service designed to help consumers protect and maintain t...
Internet search giant Google delivered this week a new online search tool that combs publicly available software source code and connected documentation online. Always looking to extend its forte -- ferreting pertinent search results from billions of Web sites, pages and documents on the Internet --...
AOL is embracing third-party developers who would like to extend its AIM Phoneline service or build new products on the platform. The Dulles, Va.-based ISP plans to introduce new APIs to facilitate the creation of higher-end offerings for the Voice over IP service of its AIM instant messaging produc...
Following Microsoft's Friday release of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, the software giant on Tuesday announced plans to make the software available for broad customer and partner testing. Microsoft will reopen the Customer Preview Program, its pre-release testing program, to new enrollments thi...
Massachusetts officials said the state remains committed to the open document format plan laid out last year as a way of ensuring accessibility to state documents, but now there may be room for Microsoft's Office suite of products after all. State technology officials have said that previous plans t...
Microsoft on Thursday took the cover off Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1, the last version of the popular browser it expects to release before going live with a final version later this year. RC1 may not look much different from the most recent IE 7 beta on the front end, but Microsoft said ...
Handheld devices now tie top executives to corporate e-mail systems and application servers. Since this capability allows mobile workers to be better informed and more responsive, companies are thinking about expanding their reach. As usage spreads, more formal metrics are being put into place to de...
To some, it might seem like an unlikely pairing: wireless handset chipsets and mobile application development tools. To Qualcomm, however, it is a match that makes sense and is starting to have an impact on the wireless data industry. Qualcomm is best known for its CDMA chipsets that are found in p...
The World Wide Web Consortium has released guidelines for Web developers to make Internet browsing more mobile-friendly. The powerful industry and standards group said the "important milestone," its Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, would advance its objective of making mobile browsing as easy as deskt...
With a new generation of video game consoles, increasing online game play and distribution, cross-platform development and play, in-game advertising and more, there are earth-shaking changes going on in the video game industry. TechNewsWorld posed some questions about the new gaming landscape to Sen...
As the battle for Instant Messaging market share heats up, Microsoft and Yahoo are upping the ante with new and improved communications services. While Microsoft is touting its Windows Live service with the release of its glorified Messenger, Yahoo is pushing plug-ins with its new beta. Microsoft o...