Web Browser News
The rise of the smartphone has led to a massive rise in mobile web usage, so the browser is increasingly vital to the success of a handset. The market has come a long way since the early days of WAP and simple browsers like Openwave, and the technologies and vendors have changed too.
To keep track of a rapidly changing area of mobile software, Rethink Wireless provides a single source of news and comment on the ‘browser wars’. It tracks the latest product launches and enhancements as well as which browsers are being adopted by consumers, and by carriers or vendors.
There’s expert commentary on key issues such as browser performance; making browsers usable on low-end phones and connections; and the impact of standards. Major developments include: the debate over the future of plug-ins like Flash, as the industry adopts HTML5, the pros and cons of the WebKit standard, and the creation of a ‘browser-as-OS’, Google’s Chrome OS.
Click for Mozilla to woo operators for its mobile OS project
20 February, 2012
Boot 2 Gecko set for release later this year as a multiscreen, cloud-oriented system to free developers from mobile siloes
AT&T puts new weight behind HTML5 apps
10 January, 2012
Launches API platform for web developers and previews Appcenter store for Android devices
Mozilla's mobile OS to be ready in mid-2012
6 November, 2011
Developers get their hands on Boot to Gecko in December, with new user interface and web app store planned next year
Adobe becomes a cloud company with Touch Apps
4 October, 2011
Acquires Nitobi for its open source HTML5 framework, shifting away from Flash and towards tablets
Facebook in major shift to HTML5
28 September, 2011
Aims to recreate its full web experience on mobile devices, in another blow to the app store model
Opera buys white label app store firm
20 September, 2011
Handster allows the browser maker to expand its increasingly broad applications platform for operators and OEMs
Google latest to bypass iOS App Store
12 September, 2011
Offers HTML5 version of new cloud music service for iPhone and iPad, no firm plans for downloadable app
Opera reports record results on operator support
26 August, 2011
Despite pressure from vendors' own high end browsers, Opera Mini is thriving on carrier branded platforms
Chrome OS to support streamed Windows apps
16 May, 2011
Citrix partnership allows Google to offer Microsoft coexistence plan for devices running its browser-as-OS
Ericsson pushes video limits of HTML5
12 May, 2011
Demonstrates enhancements to support real time audio and video from the browser
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