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BlackBerry PlayBook simulator updated with browser: Flash & HTML5 Video/Audio

Chris Davies, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

RIM has pushed out an updated version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS simulator, complete with a fully embedded BlackBerry browser so that would-be PlayBook devs can test out their web-apps, Flash 10.1 and general site performance. In addition to the Adobe support, the PlayBook will also handle HTML5 Video and Audio (though the simulator doesn't have the full range of codecs that the final hardware will). Read The Full Story

Microsoft releases H.264 plugin for Chrome; IE9 WebM video via plugin

Chris Davies, Feb 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

Microsoft has released an H.264 video plug-in for Google Chrome on Windows today, following the debut of a similar plug-in for Firefox back in last year. Meanwhile, the company has also confirmed that Internet Explorer 9 will support H.264; WebM video playback, as Google announced it would be switching to in Chrome and dropping H.264 in the process, will be supported in IE9 via third-party plug-ins. Read The Full Story

Nintendo 3DS browser & eShop delayed until May

Chris Davies, Jan 31st 2011 Discuss [7]

Nintendo has confirmed that, while the new Nintendo 3DS will arrive in the US on March 27 and in Europe on March 25, 3D gamers will have to wait longer for the 3DS eShop. CEO Satoru Iwata told GamesIndustry that not only will the game store be delayed until May 2011, the 3DS will also not have a browser to begin with. Read The Full Story

Google Keep My Opt-Outs for Chrome prevents personalized ads

Chris Davies, Jan 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

First Mozilla detailed its "do not track" system for Firefox, and now Google has announced its own version for Chrome. Keep My Opt-Outs is a Chrome browser extension that takes advantage of ad industry regulations around personalized web adverts; basically, it lets surfers permanently opt out of ad tracking. Read The Full Story

Firefox “Do Not Track” header detailed for online privacy

Chris Davies, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [4]

Mozilla's Global Privacy and Public Policy Leader, Alex Fowler, has detailed the upcoming Do Not Track functionality headed to Firefox. As Mozilla envisages it, the system "allows users to set a browser preference that will broadcast their desire to opt-out of third party, advertising-based tracking by transmitting a Do Not Track HTTP header with every click or page view in Firefox." Read The Full Story

Use Firefox? Time to Block that Skype Toolbar

Chris Burns, Jan 21st 2011 Discuss [3]

Word from Mozilla is that one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13 (current version) is the Skype toolbar. This toolbar works with Firefox to detect phone numbers in webpages, turning them into clickable buttons. This extension is bundled with Skype and is clicked to be installed by default whenever someone downloads or updates Skype. Now Mozilla has found that over the past week this toolbar has been responsible for almost 40,000 crashes of Firefox. That's a lot. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook gets browser demo: Flash, HTML5, more [Video]

Chris Davies, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [6]

RIM has outed another BlackBerry PlayBook demo video, this time showing the QNX tablet's browser in action. As well as streaming HTML5 video, the demo shows Flash-based gaming and social networks like Facebook, including support for things like Facebook chat. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

LG Optimus 2X goes head-to-head with iPhone 4 in browser showdown [Video]

Chris Davies, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

LG is expected to launch its Tegra 2 based Android Optimus 2X smartphone at CES 2011 this week, but the few units floating around in the wild in South Korea have led to some early testing up against the iPhone 4. Android Arena spotted a video pitting the Optimus 2X against the Apple smartphone in a browser speed test, and while it's far from scientific, the Android handset does seem to hold its own. Read The Full Story

Opera for Tablets gets pre-CES preview [Video]

Chris Davies, Jan 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Opera has announced a new touch browser for tablets and netbooks, Opera for Tablets, which will make its official debut at CES 2011 later this week. Demonstrated on a Samsung Galaxy Tab, the browser looks reasonably similar to Opera Mini, already available for Android devices, though scaled somewhat to suit a tablet-sized touchscreen. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

IE9 5x more malware secure than Firefox say researchers

Chris Davies, Dec 16th 2010 Discuss [5]

Internet Explorer 9 has been praised for its malware-blocking abilities, with researchers NSS Labs finding [pdf link] the Microsoft browser was more than five times more likely to protect surfers from socially-engineered malware than Firefox 3.6. Looking solely at "a web page link that directly leads to a download that delivers a malicious payload whose content type would lead to execution, or more generally a website known to host malware links" - i.e. fake downloads as often seen on Facebook or Twitter - the research found IE9 capable of blocking 99-percent of the threats encountered. Read The Full Story

IE9 anti-tracking protection measures detailed after FTC privacy pan

Chris Davies, Dec 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Microsoft will debut anti-tracking technology as part of Internet Explorer 9, which will use "Tracking Protection Lists" (TPL) to better allow surfers control over which sites can see where they've been browsing previously. According to the company's IE blog, the system will be similar to a "do not call" register for phones, with users creating lists of trusted or untrusted sites in their TPLs that set out which sites can access cookies, images, HTML and other code. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle for Web full ebook access to get previewed today

Chris Davies, Dec 7th 2010 Discuss [0]

Amazon is expected to demo its latest version of Kindle for the Web today, opening up the online ebook preview system to full texts available in the browser. According to ComputerWorld, the cloud-based ereading system is Amazon's response to Google's eBookstore, which has launched complete with an online ereader app. Read The Full Story