Mozilla Debuts In-browser PDF
Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 19, adding a built-in PDF viewer to the browser. The integrated viewer was the one noticeable change to users, although Mozilla enhanced under-the-hood features as...
View ArticleTwitter Plans To Offer App For Firefox OS
Twitter plans to offer an official app to run on the new Firefox OS, in a huge endorsement of the operating system. Mozilla said that 18 operators were supporting the new operating system. Alcatel One...
View ArticleSecond-screen Product Hopes To Increase TV Viewing
Akamai Technologies showed off a prototype second-screen system that presents complementary content on a smartphone or tablet that is synchronized with what’s happening on the main television screen....
View ArticleNetflix Dumping Microsoft’s Silverlight
Netflix said it would discontinue using Microsoft’s Silverlight media player plug-in for Windows and OS X in-browser video streaming, and replace it with a trio of HTML5 extensions. The move will be a...
View ArticleFirefox Mobile Phone To First Debut In Spain
The first Web-based Firefox mobile OS smartphones will be go on sale soon in Spain and Poland, with more coming to other regions of the world shortly thereafter, Mozilla announced on Monday. ZTE will...
View ArticleT-Mobile Gearing Up To Launch Firefox Phone
T-Mobile will begin its official launch of phones based on Mozilla’s Firefox OS when it puts the Alcatel One Touch on sale in Poland next week. The launch in eastern Europe will come just two weeks...
View ArticleBox Making A Move Into Education Market
As a new school year approaches, Box is hoping to make its way onto more campuses right alongside students and teachers with its cloud storage and file sharing application. The company has struck a new...
View ArticleeBay To Carry ZTE’s Firefox OS Smartphone
eBay will soon start offering the ZTE Open Firefox OS phone soon in the U.S. as well as the U.K. The availability of the Open through eBay means that consumers will be able to buy an affordable...
View ArticleIT Professionals Won’t Get Advance Copies Of Windows 8.1 OS
IT professionals won’t get the first crack at Windows 8.1 until October, getting the release at the same time as consumers rather than in advance as has previously been the practice. Windows 8.1 RTM,...
View ArticleZTE’s Grand S and Nubia Firefox OS Phones Coming To U.S.
ZTE plans on launching another phone running Mozilla’s Firefox OS, this time with a dual-core processor, a bigger screen, and a re-tooled user experience, a company executive said on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleAmazon Creates Developer’s Portal To Spur Android App Development
Amazon.com introduced a new portal with the goal of aiding developers in creating Android apps for its Appstore and take advantage of its cross-platform APIs with the help of better tools and...
View ArticleAdobe Releases Emergency Patches For Flash Player
"Clearly Adobe thinks the issue is serious if it is taking the step to issue an out-of-band security patch," said security researcher Graham Cluley in a blog post.
View ArticleWebEx Is Coming To Chromebooks
Google and Cisco have joined forced in the enterprise collaboration market, bundling WebEx with Chromebooks and integrating the Cisco Web conferencing and online meeting product with Google Apps. Both...
View ArticleAdobe Goes Cold Fusion 11
Developers can also publish data more securely over Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connections, if they wish.
View ArticleAnother Security Flaw Found In Adobe Flash
Apps like Tweetdeck or Pandora will need to update Adobe AIR -- that should happen automatically.
View ArticleFord Selects BlackBerry’s QNX For In-Vehicle Infotainment
Ford has announced that it has moved from Microsoft for Blackberry’s QNX OS for its in-vehicle infotainment system known as Sync. Like other infotainment systems, Sync allows users to make hands-free...
View ArticleAdobe Patches Flash Player Again
Flash Player 16.0.0.296 is now available for Internet Explorer and the plug-in based browsers on Windows and Mac systems.
View ArticleAuto Industry Helps Texas Instruments Bottom Line
However, while the outage was suffered across the globe, only US-based gamers will be able to take advantage of the compensation rewards.
View ArticleMozilla Goes After Flash
Google still embeds a Flash plug-in into the Chrome browser, while Internet Explorer continues to offer it as a separate add-on.
View ArticleAdobe Releases Another Patch For Flash
Adobe also urges users to get their skates on in its official announcement, saying that some of the Flash issues are critical.
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