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Tweet Tech Journal: The Next Phase of Web Design Most website owners offer two variations of their sites – one is optimized for viewing on the desktop while the other layout is for mobile screens. The visitor’s device is roughly identified from the “user agent string” of their browser and accordingly the mobile or desktop [...]

Tweet Savvy web surfers finding ways to circumvent Wikipedia blackout Wikipedia has imposed a 24-hour blackout on its English language website, a move that has impacted millions of global users, but some savvy web surfers are already finding ways around the problem. The shutdown — which started at midnight Tuesday ET — is protesting two [...]

Tweet Compute: Choosing a browser? Security matters, too Think of your browser as your window into Internet web pages and applications. Which browser should you choose, and what security measures should you take to protect your view? The most popular browsers are Microsoft’s Windows Internet Explorer, Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Foxfire. Internet Explorer — preinstalled [...]

Tweet Spoon.net Browser Sandbox Lets Users Run Popular Web Browsers With No Installs Major update includes support for the latest versions of all major web browsers; introduces support for mobile and pre-release browsers Spoon.net, a Seattle-based developer of application virtualization technology, today announced a major update to its popular Browser Sandbox. The Spoon.net Browser Sandbox [...]

Tweet Mozilla launches 2010′s last Firefox 4 beta Mozilla shipped Firefox 4 Beta 8, the last preview it will release this year before it makes a run toward a final version in 2011. Originally slated to appear last month, then delayed until December, Beta 8 of the open-source browser first appeared today, a day later [...]