Tag Archives : Safari

Google Inc. has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges for misleading users about its tracking activities on Apple Inc.’s Safari browser. Federal Trade Commission’s penalty  is the largest FTC penalty for violating a commission order so far. Google was allegedly  using a special code to bypass the settings and install cookies on users’ computers even [...]

Google’s Chrome browser popularity and usage is on the rise, according to the latest report from web analytics firm StatCounter, Chrome’s market share has gone up to 33.8 percent worldwide in July from 32.8 percent in June.   Microsoft Internet Explorer is close second at 32 percent, Mozilla’s Firefox which was among the first decent alternate to Internet Explorer is slipping [...]

U.S. regulators Federal Trade Commission is likely to impose a hefty US $ 22.5 million penalty on Google for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of Apple Safari web browsers users in order to serve targeted ads. Google was allegedly  using a special code to bypass the settings and install cookies on users’ computers even when such actions were supposed to be blocked by the browser. According [...]

iOS 4.1 Beta 3 Apple’s  iPhone Developer Program has released iOS 4.1 Beta 3 to developers signed on Apple’s developer program.  As usual, users should not be downloading and installing iOS 4.1 Beta 3 if they are  not  developers. Jailbreakers and unlockers should stay away if they want to keep their jailbreak ability in the future. iOS 4.1 Beta 2 was made available just over two [...]

Image Source - www.netmarketshare.com Microsoft’s good ole boy – Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, According to www.netmarketshare.com Internet Explorer has grown its usage share for the second month in a row. And once again, the fastest growing web browser overall is Internet Explorer 8. IE’s gains come, as before, at the expense of both Mozilla Firefox and [...]

Apple Safari icon After releasing new hardware yesterday Apple has today debuted Safari 5.0.1 which addresses a number of issues with the initial release, including the problem with black backgrounds appearing when generating mail attachments with scripts, and the potential security vulnerability with autofill. Apple  has also flipped the switch on Safari Extensions with a formal introduction [...]

Image by Victor Svensson via Flickr Two days after the iOS 4 release and a day before the iPhone 4 launch Apple has published official user guides for the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 in PDF format ( No, they don’t hate all Adobe softwares – its just Flash they don’t like). If you got few hours to kill either waiting for a pre-ordered iPhone 4 to arrive or camping out to purchase one tomorrow, [...]

Apple logo Apple Inc. on its website has started flaunting the abilities of the next generation of web standards known as HTML 5 which is Apple’s way to snub  Adobe. Apple has been promoting HTML5 as an alternative to Adobe’s Flash, as the two firms battle it over Apple’s refusal to allow Flash to work on its iPhone and iPad. The “HTML5 Showcase” by Apple features seven [...]

Hosted in San Fran, this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference will be hosted on June 7 – 11. It was reported earlier in the month that Apple had reserved June 22 at YBCA, it was rumoured that this may be the date for WWDC, but industry analysts insist this date was too late in the month. Apple tend to host WWDC in early June. That leaves the iPhone announcement. Could Apple [...]