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Mozilla on Tuesday released the first beta of Firefox 4, a major upgrade expected later this year that features a revamped interface, support for a wide range of Web technologies, and performance increases.
Firefox 4 Beta 1, which missed its original end-of-June ship date by less than a week, is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux [...]

SAP’s venture capital arm is leading a $10 million investment round for DeviceVM, maker of Splashtop, an “‘instant-on” platform aimed at mobile users, the companies announced Wednesday.
DeviceVM’s software is already preinstalled on many laptops made by major manufacturers. The company is also eyeing the non-PC device market. It is working now to support Intel and [...]

Mozilla is working on an iPhone application called Home that will let users access their desktop Firefox browsing history, bookmarks, and the tabs from their most recent browser session, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday
Firefox Home relies on Mozilla Sync, a service that synchronizes personal information such as bookmarks and browsing history [...]

Web video without ads? No one would mind that. However, iPad users viewing the popular New York Times site are finding out that not having to sit through ads has a price: fewer videos to watch.
Here’s why: Apple won’t allow Flash based videos to run on an iPad. The Times and thousands of other sites [...]

Web video without ads? No one would mind that. However, iPad users viewing the popular New York Times site are finding out that not having to sit through ads has a price: fewer videos to watch.
Here’s why: Apple won’t allow Flash based videos to run on an iPad. The Times and thousands of other sites [...]

Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The research puts a quantitative assessment on something that security gurus have [...]

SAP is nearing a deal to buy mobile and database vendor Sybase for roughly $6 billion, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing two individuals with knowledge of the company’s plans. The acquisition could be announced later today, but may also fail to be completed, the report added.
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Apple may soon find itself the subject of a federal antitrust inquiry over its stance on Flash-built iPhone apps, if a report in the New York Post pans out.
The newspaper says the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are discussing which of the two agencies would handle the inquiry, which would focus on changes [...]

Chrome was the only browser to gain significant usage share last month, and again trounced rival open-source Firefox.
By the end of April, Chrome accounted for 6.7 percent of the browsers that surfed to the sites that California-based NetApplications monitors for its clients. Chrome boosted its share by 0.6 percentage points, by far the largest increase [...]

With less than 48 hours until the official launch of the Apple iPad, the App Store is beginning to populate with apps for the new tablet device. The first iPad apps include the requisite entertainment–like the Netflix movie-streaming app, or Need for Speed: Shift–but there are also a fair number of apps targeted specifically at [...]