Apple Chairman Steve Jobs died today at age 56, according to reports from his family and Apple. The Apple.com website has an image featuring Steve Jobs that is labeled with the dates 1955 -2011. Apple posted this message on its website: "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an
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City of Pittsburgh CIO Howard Stern In an attempt to get away from paying for high-priced email administrators, the Pittsburgh city government is looking to save money and move to the cutting edge with a migration to Google Apps. Pittsburgh CIO Howard Stern said the city is set to sign a contract with Google in
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Takes same approach as Chrome, Firefox and IE9 in move to make browser seem faster. Opera Software will debut a new, streamlined user interface in Opera 11.5, a company executive said today, that closely resembles the minimalist design now sported by most of its competitors. The new interface, dubbed "Featherweight" by Opera, features only four
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Mozilla delivered two things today: Firefox 5 for personal computers and Android phones, and the promise to complete the new browser just a few months after its predecessor. The organization, once the leading challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, faces new challenges–notably Google's Chrome, new versions of which arrive every six weeks. Adopting a similar philosophy,
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Mozilla is working on a project that will add PDF rendering to Firefox using HTML5 and JavaScript, eliminating the need for users to run Adobe’s own plug-in. The PDF reader may be included in Firefox within three months, said Andreas Gal, a Mozilla researcher who on Wednesday unveiled work the company had done quietly for
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Break out the hearing aids and hot soup, kiddos: IBM is now 100 years old. Yep, the three-lettered computing corporation is celebrating its centennial anniversary this week. Big Blue officially hit the triple digits on Thursday; it was way back in June of 1911 that the company entered the world, bare-bottomed and red-faced (no wonder
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Mozilla and Microsoft have been racing to see which will be the first to release a production-quality browser with hardware-accelerated graphics, but at the current rate, it could be Google's Chrome 9 that crosses the finish line first. Google likely will be issuing Chrome 9 in beta form soon. It had been planned for Tuesday,
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