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• Analysis: Microsoft - Too old and too big to survive?

  By Mark Gibbs | 22 May, 2012 03:44

  What browser do you prefer? According to w3schools.com, which tracks browser usage of people interested in Web technologies and hence more likely to try alternative tools, as of April this year, 38.3 per cent of us preferred Google's Chrome, 35.8 per cent went with Mozilla's Firefox, and 18.3 per cent were still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (Apple's Safari and Opera were trailing way behind). Over the last year IE and Firefox have seen their shares decrease and only Chrome has gained share.

• Windows 8 update: Firefox, Chrome cry foul over Windows 8 ARM

  By Tim Greene | 12 May, 2012 07:26

  Microsoft is taking heat from browser competitors Firefox and Chrome for blocking them out of planned Windows 8 devices that will be based on ARM processors.

• Google Chrome share suffers with tweak of browser use calculation

  By Ann Bednarz | 02 March, 2012 06:44

  A change in the way browser usage is calculated led to a decline in web browser market share for Google Chrome, which experienced its second market share slip this year after growing steadily throughout 2011.

• Lapdock: From avant-garde to awful

  By Galen Gruman | 28 February, 2012 22:11

  What a difference a year makes. A year ago, I was intrigued by Motorola Mobility's Lapdock, a laptop without a brain into which you plugged a Motorola Android smartphone to run it on a full-size screen, with full-size keyboard, trackpad, SD card slot, and USB and HDMI ports for access to USB peripherals and mirrored screen display to a TV or monitor. A year ago, I saw the Lapdock as a wonderful innovation that presaged an era in which a smartphone is your main -- and perhaps only -- computing device, plugging into resources when needed to scale up to a desktop PC.

• Mozilla's open Web app store will launch next week

  By Katherine Noyes | 23 February, 2012 06:32

  Earlier this month Mozilla laid out a roadmap for its Firefox browser over the course of 2012, and on Wednesday it made good on one key piece of those plans.

• In Pictures: Firefox Faceoff - Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox

  By Howard Wen | 14 February, 2012 08:52

  Three unofficial Firefox variants take advantage of 64-bit processors and 64-bit version of Windows 7.

• Five tips to make your Facebook Timeline amazing

  By Ian Paul | 10 February, 2012 01:59

  Facebook Timeline currently is rolling out to all users worldwide, and--whether you like it or not--the new default profile layout will be hitting your Facebook account in the coming weeks.

• Chrome 15 Beats Out IE8 As World's Most Popular Browser

  By Ian Paul | 16 December, 2011 01:41

  Google Chrome 15 is the most popular web browser in the world overtaking Internet Explorer 8, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Chrome 15 just barely beat out its Microsoft rival for the first time between November 21 and 27 with 23.63 percent of the global browser market share compared to IE8's 23.5 percent. Mozilla's Firefox 8 trailed behind at a distant third with 12.12 percent of worldwide usage during the same time period.

• First look: Firefox 4 Beta 1 shines on HTML5

  By Peter Wayner | 09 July, 2010 05:22

  While it's impossible to sum up the thousands of enhancements and bug fixes both big and small, the Firefox 4 beta version brings the browser that much closer to taking over everything on the desktop. There are fewer reasons for anyone to interact with an extra plug-in or the operating system. Remember when people cared about whether a machine was Windows or Mac or a Commodore 64? Remember when software needed to be written in native code? Those days are fading away quickly as the browser is more able than ever before to deliver most of the content we might want.

• 55 super software secrets

  By Patrick Miller | 24 June, 2010 00:23

  The apps you use most--your Web browser, productivity tools, media managers, and Windows and its built-in accessories--are more powerful than you realize. They are loaded with unpublicized features that make your PC easier to use, they respond to superquick keyboard shortcuts that you've never heard about, and they support add-ons and plug-ins that can shave minutes or even hours off of mundane daily chores.

• Google's Chrome tops Safari: Is Firefox next?

  By Ian Paul | 05 January, 2010 08:22

  Google Chrome hit a milestone over the weekend when it became the third-most popular browser after Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, according to metrics firm Net Applications. It controls just 4.63 percent of the browser market, but Chrome has made significant inroads against competing browsers, such as the former bronze medalist Apple Safari.

• Browser wars redux: Top 5 duke it out

  By Preston Gralla and Michael DeAgonia | 14 October, 2009 05:06

  For browser fans, this is the best of times.

• Firefox 3.5 can still learn from its competition

  By Michael Scalisi | 04 July, 2009 03:13

  While Mozilla lights a fire under competing browsers with support of emerging Web standards with Firefox 3.5, it can still improve its performance, reliability, and usability.

• Mozilla to designers: Help us build better Firefox tabs

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 18 May, 2009 09:51

  Mozilla Labs is challenging Web designers to help it find a more innovative way to represent browser tabs.

• How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names

  By Thomas Wailgum | 13 November, 2008 10:25

  Coming up with a great technology product or service is only half the battle these days. Creating a name for said product that is at once cool but not too cool or exclusionary, marketable to both early adopters and a broader audience, and, of course, isn't already in use and protected by various trademarks and copyright laws is difficult--to say the least.