Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) for developers at the annual MIX08 conference in Las Vegas.
The beta version of IE8 includes better predictability when designing sites, full support for cascading style sheet (CSS) 2.1 at release to manufacturing, and integrated developer tools to quickly debug HTML, CSS and scripts […]
Firefox 3.0’s memory consumption is “dramatically improved,” claimed Mozilla Corp.’s chief engineer yesterday, because developers have aggressively attacked the open-source browser’s notorious memory “leaks.”
“We’ve been working on memory [leaks] for years,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering. “But it really started to come together in the last six months.”
Another milestone, however, […]
Yahoo Inc. Chairman Roy Bostock is leading a group of the company’s board members in favor of accepting Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid, according to a new report.
The informal group headed by Bostock also includes other board members and billionaire investor Ron Burkle, according to the report in the New York Post, which […]
First Microsoft wanted Yahoo, but Yahoo’s board didn’t want Microsoft. After the rejection, Yahoo expressed interested in a Google alliance, but sources close to Google say that the company isn’t interested in being partners with Yahoo anymore. Google just wants Microsoft and Yahoo to leave it and each other alone.
Microsoft is trying to force […]
Comcast announced today that it will focus on aggressively deploying a DOCSIS 3.0 infrastructure in 2008; the company intends to offer DOCSIS 3.0 capability in 20 percent of its market area by the end of the year. Currently the cable industry depends on the DOCSIS 1.1 specification, but that standard is limited to 36Mbps down […]
On November 15, Microsoft’s Xbox Live service will have been in operation for five years, now with “more than eight million members now actively engaged in the largest social entertainment network on TV.”
To celebrate the anniversary, Microsoft is giving all Xbox Live users the opportunity to download the XBLA game Carcassone free of charge between […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Wall Street Journal said on Sunday that its Web site now has 1 million subscribers, a milestone for a site that charges for access even as other sites are throwing themselves open for free.
It also comes as News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch, who is buying the Journal’s parent company […]
NEW YORK (AFP) - Shares in Internet search behemoth Google surpassed 700 dollars for the first time Wednesday, cementing the technology firm’s position as one of America’s most valuable companies.
Google’s shares closed up 1.7 percent at 707.00 dollars amid wider market gains as investors continued to snap up its shares. Its share price has […]
AT&T on Friday launched an international plan for the iPhone, offering users who travel overseas frequently some relief from expensive roaming charges that have led to at least one lawsuit against iPhone maker Apple. The plan gives iPhone users 50 Mbytes of data per month to browse the Web, check e-mail, and access other information […]
Unlike most recent college grads, Joe Aigboboh does not have a Facebook account. But Aigboboh, 22, and his business partner, Jesse Tevelow, 24, are now among the world’s reigning experts on the Facebook platform—thanks to the popularity of one Facebook application, called Sticky Notes, that took Aigboboh less than a week to write.
They set up […]