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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 [...]

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 [...]

Mozilla has decided to stop development of a version of its Firefox mobile Web browser for phones running Windows Mobile. The reason is that Microsoft has closed the door to native applications on smartphones running its new Windows Phone 7 Series software, Stuart Parmenter, director of Mobile Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, wrote in a blog [...]

Most iPad developers may not yet have touched the actual device, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy working away on software for Apple’s newest invention. But, according to an email obtained by Macworld, if you want your iPad application to have a chance of being in the App Store for the iPad’s arrival, [...]

If anyone still thinks “Enterprise 2.0″ is just a catchphrase, think again. Wikis, microblogging, discussion forums, social bookmarking, online groups and communities, and other tools that have come to comprise “social networking software” are marching into enterprises at a rapid clip. [ Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter and Killer [...]

Adobe Systems is working to fix a glitch in software it uses to speed up downloads of its products that could give hackers a way to push malicious programs onto a victim’s PC. According to security researcher Aviv Raff, Download Manager — a small program Adobe users to speed up the initial installation of its [...]

Some Mac users blasted Microsoft’s plan to “ribbonize” the next version of Office for the Mac, while others — many of whom said they also use the productivity suite on Windows — defended the move. Office for Mac 2011 will feature a ribbon similar to what Microsoft debuted with Office 2007 for Windows, and will [...]

Oracle has won a battle regarding the way damages can be calculated in its intellectual property lawsuit against SAP, according to a ruling filed Jan. 28 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In March 2007, Oracle sued SAP and its one-time subsidiary, TomorrowNow, which provided lower-cost support for Oracle applications, claiming [...]

Compuware this week began offering Gomez adVantage, a solution for optimizing application performance that combines the company’s Vantage monitoring software with Web site performance measurement technology acquired from Gomez. The combined product, Compuware said, addresses a market need for end-to-end performance management of applications that span the enterprise and Internet. [ Compuware bought Gomez for [...]

Oracle has filed a lawsuit against third-party maintenance provider Rimini Street and its CEO Seth Ravin, alleging the parties have been engaged in “massive theft of Oracle’s software and related support materials through an illegal business model,” according to documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Rimini Street, which provides [...]