Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group is putting yet more effort behind Mozilla's Firefox OS, and plans to hire up to 3,000 people in Taiwan with expertise in HTML5 and cloud computing. On Thursday, Foxconn said it was looking ...
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Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months. Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or ...
Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or later ...
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Summer's approaching, and energy bills are going up. And if you want to cut your PC's power bill, you should use… Microsoft's Internet Explorer.? That's the result of a Microsoft-sponsored?study?(PDF) by Fraunhofer, which found that ...
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Surging tablet sales and the muted response to Windows 8 have opened the door for Android at this year's Computex and exposed deeper cracks in the Wintel powerhouse of Windows software and Intel chips. Microsoft and Intel have dominated ...
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Microsoft will ship Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) with Windows 8.1 later this year, but on Monday the company passed on saying whether the same browser would also be available to Windows 7 users. "We aren't sharing anything around which ...
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE10) boosted its user share last month by 53% as the company's enforced upgrade for Windows 7 continued to take effect. IE10 increased its user share of all copies of IE from 10.8% to a record 16.5% in May, ...
Mozilla has signed on Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, to support its Firefox operating system in cellphones. The Firefox OS is built on the HTML5 web standard and Mozilla is setting it up to compete with ...
Tags: Foxconn, Mozilla, Firefox Os Cellphone
Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, has become the latest company to back Mozilla's Firefox OS and is developing more than five devices running the mobile operating system for its customers. The Taiwanese ...
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Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users. The ...
After 10 years, developers of Camino, a Mac-only browser built atop Mozilla's Gecko engine, called it quits yesterday. "Camino is no longer being developed, and we encourage all users to upgrade to a more modern browser," stated a message ...
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A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website. Robert Kugler said he notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19. He said he was informed by email that because he is ...
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With an update to its namesake configuration tool, Puppet Labs has introduced a programming language designed to give administrators more flexibility in scripting their deployment routines. Puppet 3.2.1, the first public release in the ...
Opera Software today released the first beta version of its flagship browser that uses the open-source WebKit rendering engine, making good on a pledge from February. "Opera Next" -- analogous to a beta -- shipped Tuesday for Windows and ...
Google today upgraded Chrome to version 27, touting it as 5% faster as it patched 13 vulnerabilities. The upgrade was the first since March 26, when Google plumped Chrome 26 into the release channel, the most polished of its three public ...
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