Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Friday, July 3, 2009

Mozilla Firefox 3.5

Mozilla Firefox, one of the most popularly used web browsers by many people all over the world. There are already some positively toned news regarding the firefox browser. Mozilla's attempt to "upgrade the Web," resulted in firefox 3.5 and it was released last week for Windows, Windows Portable, Mac, and Linux. Some of its key improvements are a new a new JavaScript engine for faster Web applications such as Google Docs. These features excited users, though they came as little surprise. The release followed a testing process that involved four beta builds, three release candidates, and a version number change.

Even though Mozilla's browser broke Microsoft's lock on the market, Internet Explorer's market share is down a dramatic 8 percentage points to 65.5 percent in about the last year--Firefox is no longer the only scrappy, alternative browser in town. Other serious contenders now include Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome, and Opera. Mozilla firefox is still a good contender but it has a long way to go by making interface changes and so on.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Best email service provider!!!

There is a tough Competition between yahoo and Microsoft… but now there is another competitor in the race. It is Google

Microsoft is the first largest e-mail service, with 283 million users

Yahoo is the second largest e-mail service, with 274 million users

Gmail is the third-largest e-mail service, with 113 million worldwide users as of September according to comScore.

Google announced Tuesday it is adding video and audio chat to its free e-mail service, joining Microsoft and Yahoo in a race to make communication on the Web a more social experience.

Both Microsoft and Yahoo offer video with their instant messaging services, but have not integrated it into e-mail.

Last month, Yahoo announced it was providing programmers the software instructions they need to write applications that can extend the features of Yahoo mail. Ash Patel, executive vice president of the audience product division, said the goal was to help hundreds of millions of users “communicate better and get more done.”

Microsoft has also been upgrading its communication platform, known as Windows Live