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New standard lets browsers manipulate files better

Crave The World Wide Web Consortium has published a draft of an interface that browsers can use to manipulate files better, one of a series of steps aimed at gradually improving the ... Read story »

Competing browsers gain on Internet Explorer

Crave Internet Explorer rivals generally gained market share in figures from July, shown at top, and August. After resetting its methodology to better account for global variations, Net Applications' browser usage statistics ... Read story »

Latitude released as Web app for iPhone

Crave Latitude is a Web app only on the iPhone. Google on Thursday released a version of its Latitude mobile application for the iPhone. But Apple, curiously, has decreed that it ... Read story »

What Chrome OS has on Windows that Linux doesn't

Features Google's Chrome OS isn't the first operating system to challenge Microsoft Windows, but it has an advantage other rivals don't.  Read story »

Google shows off Gmail mobile Web app

Features What Google did with Gmail in conventional browsers five years ago it is expecting to do again with a new mobile version of its Web-based email service. Read story »

Fast Flip: Google's new content browser

Crave Google on Monday released an experimental new content browser called Fast Flip that makes it possible to see a curated set of content sites using a physical "turn the pages" metaphor. ... Read story »

Hands-on with Microsoft Office Web Apps

Crave Microsoft has finally started to open up its Web-based versions of Office apps to early testers. Last week we got access to a "technical preview" of Excel and PowerPoint on the ... Read story »

Sina's Twitter-esque microblogging site: A closer look

Blogs China Web portal giant, Sina, has launched an invite-only beta of a very Twitter-like microblogging service. It is the first time a major Chinese Web company has tackled microblogging. Previously, smaller ... Read story »

Mobile Firefox almost ready for primetime

Crave Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Firefox for mobile phones, an important step in bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival ... Read story »

Upcoming Firefox detects laptop movements

Crave A demonstration application that shows Firefox adjusting a Web page graphic according to how a MacBook is tilted. The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if ... Read story »

Screenshot tour of Chrome OS

Features Google showed off a rough version of its Chrome OS. Here's a look at some of its features and the Googlers who showed it off.  Read story »

Microsoft Bing Maps adds steet-level imagery

Crave Microsoft's new street-level imagery in Bing Maps takes advantage of Silverlight to do things Web applications can't, according to the company. Microsoft is kicking Bing Maps into a higher gear, ... Read story »

Android apps show big growth potential

Crave Android, iPhone and iPod touch users are all highly engaged with applications and frequently download them to their devices, according to a new survey from AdMob. However, Android has a much ... Read story »

Testing out Microsoft's Hohm energy monitoring beta

Crave Microsoft has developed a new Web site, called Hohm, which aims to help homeowners monitor and manage their power consumption. Microsoft opened up its Hohm Web application on Monday to ... Read story »

Google Chrome OS launch: What we now know

Blogs As I said, I don't see a compelling reason yet to embrace a Google OS, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not just as curious about Google Chrome OS ... Read story »

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