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Study claims IE users have lower IQs than Firefox, Chrome, and Safari users
A recent study from AptiQuant suggests that people who use Internet Explorer as their web browser are likely to have a lower IQ than those who use Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. A Vancouver based Psychometric Consulting company, AptiQuant, has released a report on a trial it conducted to measure the effects of cognitive ability on […]
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Safari, following in the footsteps of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, will soon offer a new “do not track” feature that will enable users to opt out of tracking cookies which as you know is a time-old favorite of marketers and advertisers. The new feature is a part of the new Safari […]
Continue reading...Browser share of Internet Explorer drops below 50%
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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NetworkWorld reports: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which has dominated the Web browser market since blowing by Netscape in the late 1990s, last month fell below the 50% market share level for the first time in years. IE’s share of the worldwide market fell to 49.87% in September, down from 51.3% in August and 58.4% a year […]
Continue reading...Internet Explorer market share drops below 60% for the first time
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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For the first time in its history, Internet Explorer’s marketshare has dipped below 60%. According to recent data covering the month of April from NetApplications, the percentage of browsers running IE dropped 0.7 points to 59.95% in the month of April. Back in June of 2009, IE’s share came in at 68.32%. And for some […]
Continue reading...Microsoft says HTML 5 Video is the future of the web, IE 9 to support H.264 video only
Friday, April 30, 2010
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Man, it sure is a tough week to be a Flash advocate. Hot on the heels of Steve Jobs’ position paper highlighting all of Flash’s shortcomings, Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s General Manager of Internet Explorer, explained that HTML 5 Video is the future of the web and that IE 9 will only support video playback of […]
Continue reading...Ballmer: “The Internet is not designed for the iPhone”
Thursday, October 22, 2009
In a recent AP articleabout today’s release of Windows 7, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had an interesting answer in response to a question about whether or not smartphones “could unseat PC’s as the technology of choice for on-the-go consumers. Let’s face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for […]
Continue reading...12 years ago today, Apple and Microsoft made amends, sort of [Video]
Thursday, August 6, 2009
12 years ago today, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote in Boston where he announced a number of new initiatives with its ole’ rival Microsoft and an end to the legal battle over Apple’s allegations that Microsoft illegally copied the “look and feel” of the Mac OS. In the video below, a non-turtleneck clad Jobs announced […]
Continue reading...Internet Explorer loses 11.4% of browser market share
Monday, July 6, 2009
Despite an increase in the number of people using IE 8, the overall number of users who browse the web with Internet Explorer continues to dwindle, with the latest report finding that since March, IE has lost 11.4% in browser market share. Internet Explorer has long been chastised for not strictly adhering to web standards, […]
Continue reading...Microsoft creates “viral” webspots to hype up IE8
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
In an attempt to create a viral video campaign to make the upcoming IE 8 a browser people dont, oh I don’t know, actually run away from, Microsoft has enlisted the help of Superman himself, Dean Cain. The spots are alright, I guess. They kept me entertained for the most part, but given how unbelievably […]
Continue reading...Microsoft’s “Get the Facts” write-up on IE 8 isn’t very factual
Thursday, June 18, 2009
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In an effort to promote IE 8, Microsoft recently put up a “Get the Facts” page where it lays out a bunch of IE 8 “myths” and attempts to explain why they’re wrong. Only thing is, many of the so-called myths Microsoft cites are actually pretty dead-on. Geektechnica takes MSFT to task over here. It’s […]
Continue reading...Checking out the new iPhone on IE 5, running on an old Powerbook G3 [Photo]
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Talk about getting some bang for your buck. This guy is using a Powerbook G3 from 1998 to check out the new iPhone 3G S on Internet Explorer 5. Funny to think that that IE 5 was the de-facto Mac browser for quite some time.
Continue reading...Tuesday Evening Link Roundup
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The latest links, hot off the press… iTunes launches indie store – Prefix Mag Safari 4 is 42x faster than IE7 and 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 – CNET Apple pulls pre-release iPod from EBAY – WritersBlockLive BlackBerry sales top iPhone sales in December – Electronista Premium-priced MacBook Pros top sales at Apple retail stores – […]
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
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