Today the Pope cleared up the age-old question: God, not Al Gore, invented the internet.
Internet Explorer Users Are Objectively Stupid
According to some low-rent "online psychometric testing" firm, people who use Internet Explorer are dumb-dumbs. They gave visitors to their website an IQ test, and, as you can see, people who have Internet Explorer version 6 are the dumbest of all internet users.
Worst Tech Commercial Ever, Probably
If Harry McCracken, who has been writing about personal computers for 29 years, says this Microsoft spot is the worst technology commercial ever, he's probably right. Warning: It's also gross.
Google Chrome market share tops Opera, latest Internet Explorer beta version
Users of Google's Chrome browser account for about 1 percent of the market, reports Net Applications, a market researcher. European browser-maker Opera —
which you might have heard had it agreed to make the iPhone's browser, but it didn't, so you haven't — claims 0.74 percent of all users. Microsoft's Internet…
Microsoft realizes the Internet is for porn
Mozilla ended up dropping the feature from Firefox 3, but
rumor has it Microsoft is considering adding a private browsing mode to its Internet Explorer 8 update. Private browsing — also known as "porn mode" — makes dumping a browser's history, clearing its cache and blocking cookies that much easier. Apple's Safari…
Firefox use growing, Internet Explorer slipping
Only four years after its launch, Mozilla's Google-milking cash cow Web browser, Firefox, is now approaching 20 percent market share, reports NetApplications, a website-statistics provider. Just two months ago, over 8 million people downloaded a copy of Firefox 3, in a marketing stunt which garnered Mozilla a Guinness…
Microsoft's $240 million not enough to make Facebook Internet Explorer-compatible
Facebook's list of supported browsers does not include one that's proven relatively popular (if by hook or by crook) — Microsoft Internet Explorer. As blogger Dan Lewis points out, Microsoft may have invested $240 million in the social network startup, and you'd think that would win them some favors:
Internet Explorer 8 will drive you nuts — the 25-word version
"You're pretending that there's one standard, but since nobody has a way to test against the standard, it's not a real standard." — Software pundit Joel Spolsky on the impossibility of conforming to Web standards. If you're a Web developer, Spolsky's 4,738-word treatise, with illustrations, is worth reading on your…
Internet Explorer can't find a working version of Google Maps
Outside of geekdom, Internet Explorer still dominates browser market share. That means for most people, the Web works the way Microsoft wants it to. And so far, for those using the newest version of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft's version of the Web doesn't include Google Maps. Or at least not a very useful version…
AOL discontinues a browser no one uses
The surprise in AOL discontinuing the Netscape browser isn't that the Netscape browser is gone. It's that it was still alive, and that anyone was still working on it. From the moment AOL bought Netscape in 1998 this was a foregone conclusion. AOL was interested in Netscape's Web traffic, not its browser; it continued…
Opera's drama-queen antitrust lawsuit
Opera Software, maker of a feature-laden but forgotten Web browser, is complaining to the European Commission about Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It's an old gripe: Opera points out — duh — that IE is bundled with Windows. Opera claims this is illegal and that IE holds back the web with lousy support for standards.…
Firefox gaining on IE with Google's help
The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit behind Firefox, just released its 2006 financial statement. It turns out Moz's for-profit arm is making millions from a deal with Google. 85 percent of its revenue — some $56 million — came from the Google search box that is the default on every Firefox install. Google also…
Google glitches: Stuck on page one
Google fixed an bug in Google Desktop that kept Internet Explorer users from clicking past the first page of search results. Actually, this problem existed all last year, but no one ever bothered checking past the first ten results. Everyone clicks the first result anyway, don't they?
