Apple users may be disappointed after the biggest news out of Monday's Apple developers conference was new Web browser software for Windows.
In a keynote address that lasted more than two hours at the Macworld Expo, which started here today, Jobs also announced, of all things, a new Apple-made Web browser software called Safari.
True, the court reversed the finding that Microsoft had attempted to monopolise the market for web-browser software, and also overturned last year's ruling by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that the company should be split in two.
Just as Microsoft used its dominance in operating systems to get its browser onto millions of computers, it now can rely on that browser to offer Web software.
With presentation software and a Web browser, Apple is stepping tenuously on more of Microsoft's toes.
But everyone knows that it is the treatment of Netscape Communications and its Navigator Web browser a piece of software that enables computer-users to navigate the Internet easily that is at the heart of the complaint.
For surfing the web over the telephone, software called a voice browser is required to allow callers to navigate and access data on web pages that have been adapted for voice recognition.
With so much software moving into the web browser it stands to reason Facebook would want its own browser.
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The move would mean Google would not need to run its software through a mobile web browser, allowing it to offer improved performance.
DocuSign, a firm in Seattle founded in 2003, thinks it has now cracked this nut with a new (and patented) process that requires no software except a normal web browser.
Rather than offering a self-sufficient machine with a bulky hard drive and a bolted-on web browser, Google is pushing new operating system software and hardware, in the form of its Cr-48 laptop built to live online.
Today, Opera Software launched the Opera Mini 7 web browser in a final version for the Android platform.
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That court overturned a previous ruling by Jackson that barred Microsoft from requiring PC makers licensing Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system to also take the software vendor's Internet Explorer Web browser as part of the license.
The importance of the Web browser is that, combined with Java, a software language which can run on any platform and which was developed by another of Microsoft's rivals, Sun Microsystems, it may become a rival to the Windows operating system.
But behind the scenes, many companies have quietly been enhancing and reimagining the Web browser, as new technologies have made it possible to do numerous activities in the browser instead of through software downloaded to a computer or mobile device.
Opera Software, the company behind the Opera Web browser, has released the findings of new study that focused on mobile advertising.
Google also developed a new operating system called Chrome OS that is derived from its browser technology and designed to run only Web-based software.
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Since these are Microsoft devices, music and video are handled through Zune software, web searches go through Bing and the browser is Internet Explorer.
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That could prove just as disastrous for IBM and Dragon Systems' competing voice-recognition software as the decision to bundle the Explorer Web browser was for Netscape.
The European Commission began two new antitrust investigations into Microsoft in response to complaints from its rivals, this time focusing on the compatibility of its Office package with other companies' software and the bundling of its Internet Explorer web browser with Windows.
Archer said his studio designed "Offensive Combat" for a fast-growing segment of core gamers who want a fine-tuned, shooter game that can be played anywhere, anytime via their Web browser, and not limited by the need for a major software install or dedicated hardware.
The new version of the iPlayer has been written with Adobe's AIR technology which aims to make it possible to create applications that can be downloaded to your computer, rather than just embedded in browser web pages as is possible with the widely used Flash software.
Users of Apple's mobile devices access many internet services through small downloadable software applications, or apps, rather than a web browser.
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On the desktop, targeting is done by "cookies" small software programs installed by Web pages on a user's browser to monitor online activity.
The design of the physical device gets out of the way of the gadget's software--which lets it morph from being a Web browser to a media player to a phone and back again.
The industry giants certainly know about and have products in this field, from Siemens to Honeywell, the latter notably with a 2005 acquisition of Tridium for its software that integrates diverse building systems and devices using a Web browser.
Not only is the operating system no longer managing the hardware, thanks to the work of VMware and Citrix, but as applications continue move to the Web operating systems are also losing relevance on the software side to the browser.
Without resorting to installing any software, one option is to change certain settings in your Web browser.
Google has already developed the software, called Gears, that lets a browser run such web-based applications.
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Microsoft has released a temporary software fix for a newly discovered bug in its Internet Explorer web browser.
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