 | | EU gives obscure browsers a big chance | | It took Mozilla more than five years of concerted effort and a lucrative partnership with Google to dent Internet Explorer's dominance. But maybe it doesn't have to be so hard. Courtesy of an antitrust case against Microsoft in the European Union, several small-fry browsers are getting a helping hand that could boost their efforts to attain relevance. Here's how it works. After a Windows Update change Microsoft has begun issuing, the choices appear to people with Internet Explorer set as the default browser. The choice screen shows the five most widely used browsers, in random order: IE, Firefox, Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, and Opera. Next to the icons are links to install them or to get more information. But tucked at the bottom of the EU browser options list is a scrollbar that reveals seven other browsers. Don't be surprised if you haven't heard of them, much less installed them.
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CNET.com |  | | New on Webware | | | Can you appeal a YouTube ban?
Posted by Rafe Needleman
We're looking out for your rights as a consumer of technology, try to help you save money, keep advertisers honest, and in general do what we can to keep tech vendors from taking advantage of you. Our first part of this series deals with appealing a ban from YouTube. Read more |  | Meet Gatsby, matchmaker for Foursquare users
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Meet Gatsby is a new tool that can help you meet other Foursquare users with the same interests. In a nutshell, it has people fill out things they like, such as hobbies or social activities. Then, the next time they check in somewhere, it will connect them to someone else in the vicinity who also signed up for the service and who shares one or more of those interests. Read more | | Finally: Gmail multitasks more smoothly
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google finally has taken care of a pet peeve I've had since I switched to Gmail in 2008: not letting me doing more than one thing at a time. The fast new windows feature in Gmail, makes it easier to create multiple Gmail interactions nearly instantly--at least for some folks. Read more | | YouTube brings auto-captioning to everyone
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Late this week, Google announced that YouTube is turning on its auto-captioning technology to all users--a move it hopes will make videos both easier to watch and find in its search engine. The technology uses the spoken audio track in your videos to create machine-made translations, a service it once offered only to educators. Read more | | Buzz backfire: How Google pushed me to Facebook
Posted by Stephen Shankland
I use and enjoy Google Buzz. But here's the funny thing: because of it, I've begun using Facebook more. Buzz backfired for me for one simple reason. I wanted a mechanism for social networking with my personal contacts, but Facebook is where those ties are active. Read more | | | | Browser news | | | Opera 10.5 brings new JavaScript engine
Posted by Stephen Shankland
This week's release of Opera 10.5 for Windows, brings with it a new JavaScript engine. And the good news is that it's faster, an important consideration given the increasing demands Web applications put on the Web-based programming language. Read more | | Chrome dev gets rudimentary HTML5 geolocation
Posted by Seth Rosenblatt
In an update to the development build of Chrome, Google this week introduced a rough version of the native HTML5 geolocation API. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google Chrome dev 5.0.342.1 comes with the geolocation API that Mozilla has supported since it introduced it in last summer's Firefox 3.5. Read more |
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