In this episode, the pundits discuss Venture Beat’s article on the site AllThis, the AT&T T-Mobile merger is dead, Western Digital re-opened its first hard drive factory after the flood, building a computer with all US parts, Google and Firefox renew their search deal, Microsoft to start updating IE silently, Twitter accounts being censored,...
August 18, 2011. In this episode, Bing offers better search results than Google, surprise – Google buys Motorola, study shows that 9 out of 13 ISPs can’t provide their advertised speeds, Facebook does a reversal on drug companies, IE is the better browser to block suspicious sites and World of Warcraft is losing subscribers,...
In another report that tries to give IE street cred as a descent browser (this one is real, right?), NSS Labs has released results of a study that was conducted from May 27 through June 10 of this year. The study shows that Internet Explorer scored better than its browser brethen when guarding against...
Did you see the report that came out earlier this week that showed Internet Explorer users had a lower IQ than those that used an alternate browser such as Firefox, Chrome or Opera? It seems the BBC thought it was bogus also. Here’s a quote from their findings: Questions about the authenticity of the...
Firefox 5 was released this week, a mere 13 weeks since Firefox 4 was released. Why a new release in such a short amount of time? Apparently, Mozilla has adopted a new maintenance cycle, releasing a major version every 6 weeks – Firefox 5 being the first of the new cycle. Why not version...
In a strange post on their security blog, Microsoft has come out swinging against WebGL, technology that is supported in Firefox and Chrome. Google has called WebGL “the most powerful way to add 3D graphics to web pages” and Mozilla (the makers of Firefox) has stated that WebGL is best for “interactive 3D games,...
SouthGeek Ramble and Review 14: Finding My Friends in Low Places
In this episode, the pundits discuss the e-Parasite Act, the official “Firefox with Bing” release, Youtube plans to launch 100 video channels, Apple’s Find My Friends app, new video radar that can track up to 32 moving vehicles, Google now indexes Facebook and other comments, L.A. County says Google is unable to meet their...
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