Over the last few days, Mozilla's lovely Are We Pretty Yet? (AWPY) has been steadily accumulating Firefox 5 interface mock-ups. If you haven't visited AWPY before, its primary purpose is for listing and fixing bugs in the Firefox 4 UI -- but it seems it will now also be used to showcase potential interfaces for Firefox 5.
Read MoreIt's been a work in progress for years, but there are a few more years to go yet before the next version of Hypertext Markup Language is finalized.
Read MoreHP finally announced its new tablet to the world. Called the HP TouchPad, the tablet is the result of Palm being absorbed into the world of HP with webOS beating at the heart of the device. With more sliding and swiping than you can throw a stick at, this new version of Palm’s webOS brings the software up to version 3.0 and it’s never looked so good.
Read MoreThe latest Firefox 4 Beta 11 is now available to download and test. Mozilla continued their work to improve performance and stability, while also implementing a “Do Not Track” privacy feature to provide more control over online behavioral tracking.
Read MoreOnline radio website Last.fm has announced that from next week it will abandon its free streaming service to mobile phones and begin charging users for content. The station has decided that its current model, which provides personalized radio content for free to mobile users and generates money by placing ads between songs, is no longer rational. Instead from February 15, users will have to pay for an ad-free service.
Read MoreFirefox's official roadmap has been updated, which brings interesting changes for the future. Most notably, Firefox 7 will ship in 2011. The second focus of Firefox development in 2011, is to make sure there is no more than 50ms between any user interaction and feedback from the browser.
Read MoreA press conference taking place on Thursday in Miami is expected to mark the last allocation of Internet Protocol, Version 4 addresses by the central authority that assigns them. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Number Resources Organization, the Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Society all are scheduled to participate.
Read MoreIn the competition between native applications for mobile phones versus Web applications, hardware support often makes native apps an obvious choice for programmers. But the World Wide Web Consortium is tackling one area, touch-screen support, in an effort that could help Web apps catch up.
Read MoreWhile it might not have a huge share of the desktop Web browser market, Opera certainly knows how to score deals with OEMs. Today, Opera announced that it has entered into a partnership with Sony to deliver an embedded browser on TVs and Blu-ray players.
Read MoreAccording to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans, the software giant is currently building copies of Internet Explorer 9 that include an “ActiveX filter” feature. The filter will allow users to control what ActiveX elements are displayed on sites they visit, furthering Microsoft’s commitment to security within its browser. Microsoft is expected to ship the feature inside Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (RC).
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