Microsoft have launched a new website aimed at helping people identify how secure their web browser really is.  www.YourBrowserMatters.org will tell visitors in a simple score from 0 to 4 just how secure they are when they go online. In a blog post today, the company said that 24.4% of all web browsers are outdated [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Last week we reported, somewhat sceptically I’m happy to say, about a piece of research by a company called AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting, that said that people who used Internet Explorer had lower IQs than people who used other browsers. The research “measuring the effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser” was apparently [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Internet Explorer, Opera

Yup, it’s the summer, that time traditionally called the “silly season” here in the UK so far as the news is concerned.  Now tech blogger Paul Thurrott has found a lovely little gem of a report from a company called AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting into the “Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage” of the public. The [...]

Categories: Browsing

The iPad’s rise and rise has now surpassed 1% of all web browsing, according to figures released by NetMarketShare. While Internet Explorer, in its various guises, has dropped again in market share to just 53.68% of the overall market, Safari owns 7.48%. This means that Safari and Google’s Chrome operating systems are the only web browsers [...]

Categories: Apple

You may have heard about Webian Shell in the news. If you did not, here is a short article that fills you in on the details. Webian Shell has been released as a prototype a few days ago. Its developer describes it as a graphical shell for the web. The basic idea is to display [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Well we’ve only just had Internet Explorer 9 out of the door on Monday but coming up straight behind it will be Mozilla’s new Firefox 4 just next week. More’s the point, the company is so confident that people will want to grab the browser as early as possible they’ve given a release time of [...]

Categories: Firefox

All web browsers are getting serious overhauls with the most recent being Internet Explorer 9 with its new one box. This is a unified address and search box and it makes sense as you could always search from the URL box in browsers anyway. Now ConceivablyTech are reporting that Google is now considering its options [...]

Categories: Google

The buzz word in computing in 2010 has been tablet, as popularised by Apple’s iPad.  This year we’ve seen tablets go on sale using Google’s Android operating system and Windows 7, and we’ve seen both RIM and HP announce specialised tablet operating systems for their own devices. During this time both Android and Windows 7 [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

A report compiled by security company Bit9 has named the “dirty dozen” web browsers with the most discovered vulnerabilities, and the results, which have been posted by NeoWin come as something of a, well let’s face it, a major surprise. Bit9′s CEO, Harry Sverdlove said “A variety of vulnerability types – including buffer-overflow and cross-site [...]

Categories: Google, Microsoft