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Firefox Home for iPod, iPhone and iPad released

Alex — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:28:17 +0000

Mozilla’s answer to Firefox Sync for Apple ‘i’ products has been approved in the Apple App Store.

Mozilla’s description explains it all:

“Firefox Home provides access to your desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. It’s not a Web browser itself, but with it you can get up and go and have everything waiting for you on your iPhone. Firefox Home is secure from end-to-end so your data is always safe. And, of course, it’s free.”

Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users can download Firefox Home from the App Store today.

Adobe confident that Flash will come to iPhone

Alex — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:39:43 +0000

Adobe has come out saying that it is confident that Apple will eventually cave and allow Flash to make it onto the iPhone.

“Our goal is to provide a consistent runtime that spans devices, inclusive of [mobile and] desktop operating systems,” said Flash marketing director Adrian Ludwig at this weeks Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Adobe is currently working on providing Flash on devices powered by Windows Mobile, Android, Palm WebOS, Symbian, and BlackBerry OS powered devices, delivering parity with the desktop versions of Flash.

“I suspect what will happen is that as we have more devices in the market… Apple will have more market pressure to include Flash on the iPhone,” said head of Adobe’s platform business David Wadhwani.

“Apple would like to move rich content off the web and into its App Store, where it can more readily monetise it….Ultimately, the consumer will decide.”

Adobe has a version of Flash ready to go for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad, but is being blocked by Apple from getting low-level access to the iPhone that’s necessary to properly implement Flash.

Whether Adobe’s prediction will come true remains to still be seen, only time will tell.

Opera Mobile most used mobile browser

Alex — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:05:31 +0000

Opera Mobile is now the most used mobile browser world wide according to SiteCounter for the month of May.

Opera Mobile took the lead for the month with 24.6% of the worldwide market compared to 22.3% for the iPhone. This statistic is a little misleading however, as with iPod touch added to the total, it comes to 37.32% market share.

Nokia came in third for the month with 17.9% market share.

Trend Micro release free web browser

Alex — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:50:27 +0000

Trend Micro – a major security firm – have released a web browser called Smart Surfing suitable for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The browser benefits by blocking browsers from accessing malicious sites, using Trend Micro’s Web Reputation technology.

A list of features include:

Secured by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network
Blocks access to Web pages with malicious content
Helps protect against phishing and pharming attacks
Provides color-coded search results to easily identify harmful Web pages
Easy-to-modify protection strength level and notifications
Supports browsing multiple Web pages at the same time

The browser can be downloaded for free from the iTunes store.