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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Free Quake III multiplayer in your browser

March 5, 2009 | 11:01

Quake Live open beta starts tomorrow

id Software has announced that the open beta for Quake Live will start tomorrow for anyone who wants to try Quake 3 in a browser.

February 23, 2009 | 11:45

Android browser vulnerability published

Security researcher Charlie Miller has unveiled a rather worrying security hole in Google's Android platform - one which allows for arbitrary code execution.

February 13, 2009 | 15:03

Bundled Firefox not the "right outcome"

Speaking regarding the EU's decision that Microsoft's browser bundling was an abuse of monopoly, architect Mike Connor claims that bundling Firefox is "not the right outcome."

February 10, 2009 | 10:11

Opera creates new JavaScript engine

Opera has announced a new JavaScript engine for Opera 10, which should vastly improve performance - and get it closer to first place in the SunSpider benchmark tests.

February 6, 2009 | 10:46

Internet Explorer market share dips

Figures released by Net Applications show Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser losing a big share of the market to rivals Safari, Firefox, and Chrome.

February 3, 2009 | 13:14

Safari users warned of unpatched flaw

Users of Apple's Safari web browser - on both Mac OS X and Windows platforms - are being warned that an unpatched flaw in the RSS engine could lead to data theft.

January 14, 2009 | 13:42

Google Chrome coming to Mac, Linux

Google has announced that Mac and Linux versions of its Chrome browser should be available before July 2009.

January 12, 2009 | 12:24

Critical update for Firefox released

Mozilla has released an update for the popular Firefox web browser which addresses several security flaws deemed 'critical'.

December 19, 2008 | 12:57

Firm tests browser password privacy

Security firm Chapin Information Services has published the result of an investigation into the security of password management in popular web browsers - and it makes depressing reading.

December 16, 2008 | 13:14

Google's Chrome leaves beta

Just a hundred days after its initial beta launch, Google's Chrome web browser has official graduated to 1.0 'production' status - and it's got faster and more secure along the way.

December 12, 2008 | 09:08

Opera 10 Alpha 1 released

Opera has released an alpha build of its next generation web browser, and with 100 percent Acid3 compliance and a 30 percent speed boost to the rendering engine it's pretty darn good.

December 5, 2008 | 12:03

Opera Mini 4.2 released

The latest build of the free mobile browser Opera Mini, version 4.2, has been released - and it brings some nice new features to the table along with Android support.

November 26, 2008 | 13:35

Apple releases Safari 3.2

Apple has released the latest build of its Safari browser, version 3.2, with anti-phishing protection from Google included alongside numerous security fixes.

November 20, 2008 | 09:45

Adobe previews 64-bit Flash

Adobe has released a preview version of a native 64-bit Flash Player binary for Linux, allowing users on 64-bit systems to use completely native binaries when browsing the web.

November 19, 2008 | 10:37

Google patches Android security hole

Google and T-Mobile have jointly distributed the first patch for the Android mobile platform, as a result of a security flaw in the on-board browser software.

November 3, 2008 | 13:09

Opera launches new Mobile beta

Opera has announced the release of a new beta for Opera Mobile, with newly-added support for Symbian handsets as well as existing Windows Mobile units.

October 22, 2008 | 09:10

Firefox Mobile alphas due 'in weeks'

Comments by Mozilla Foundation CEO John Lilly reveal that alpha versions of the up-coming Firefox Mobile browser could arrive in 'a few weeks' time.

October 7, 2008 | 14:05

Shiny, but not polished

Google surprised just about all of us in the bit-tech office when it announced Chrome - its first foray into the browser market. Tim Smalley has been playing around with the first beta for a few days and has some thoughts on the browser's direction.

September 6, 2008 | 07:55

Google launches Chrome browser

Google has taken the next logical step in its plans to conquer the Internet, with the beta launch of an open-source standards-compliant browser dubbed Chrome.

September 3, 2008 | 10:10

Firefox 2 users to be offered 3.0.1

Users of the previous-generation Firefox 2.0.0.x series of web browser will begin to receive messages telling them to upgrade to Firefox 3 from next week.

August 21, 2008 | 12:43

IE team working on 'privacy mode'

The Internet Explorer team over at Microsoft are hard at work on a pair of technologies designed to offer 'private browsing' without leaving incriminating evidence behind.

August 21, 2008 | 08:57

IE8 due "later this year"

Internet Explorer 8, with its strict standards compliance, is due to ship to end users by the end of the year according to Microsoft. A second beta is also scheduled for next month.

July 25, 2008 | 12:58