Amazon’s Silk Criticized By US Congress
Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, voiced his discontent about the browser at a public hearing this week, while Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, urged Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for more clarity regarding the data collected from Silk users. The reason for the outrage had to do with how everything a user did in Silk, Amazon would know about. This isn’t the first time that Silk has caused privacy concerns to arise either.
Markey went into a bit more detail in a letter addressed to Amazon, stating that Silk is the only browser available for Silk and that Amazon could essentially keep track of each and every click its customers make. This includes knowing where people shop, what products they buy, when they buy them, and how much they pay.
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Opera Mini 6.5 And Opera Mobile 11.5 Hits The Streets
Brings data usage reports and other goodies.
Opera Software, the Norwegian browser maker, has recently released an update for both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile web browsers.
According to the company report, Android only updates now include a “Data Usage” view, which (when Opera Turbo, a web page compression technology, is enabled) allows users to see their bandwidth savings.
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Nokia Adds Compression Technology To Mobile Browser
The latest additions to Nokia’s phone portfolio, the C2-05 and the X2-05, come with a new browser that uses Nokia’s own compression technology to deliver content faster, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.
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Microsoft Says Your Web Browser Matters
Says Internet Explorer is superior.
Here comes another marketing round from Microsoft, as it has launched a YourBrowserMatters.org web site, designed to inform everyday consumer (who rarely visits such pages anyway) about the dangers of the Internet.
Basically, it goes like this:
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98% Of Mozilla’s Revenues Come From Search Deals
According to the audited financial statement (download PDF) released Monday, total revenues for 2010 were $121.1 million, up 18.1% from 2009’s $104.3 million.
Revenue growth last year was just over half that of the 34% increase Mozilla touted for 2009. This was the second annual report in a row that Mozilla did not disclose the individual amounts it received from its search partners.
Instead, in a FAQ tied to the report, Mozilla repeated nearly word for word a line it used last year: “The majority of Mozilla’s revenue continues to be generated from the search functionality included in our Mozilla’s Firefox product through all major search partners including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, eBay and others.”
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Add Vertical Firefox Toolbar
In case you use a widescreen display and prefer to have a vertical toolbar instead the horizontal one, here is a simple Firefox add-on to enable such functionality for you every day needs.
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RockMelt Update Brings Incredible Sharing And More
The newest edition of the RockMelt beta includes new features like thinner Edges and easier App adding. That is not all, however, as the latest update also brings with it a redesigned Share button that lets you share to multiple people and services at same time, this being what RockMelt calls Incredible Sharing. Nevertheless, Social Reading has yet to come.
Incredible Sharing
Run Ubuntu In Your Browser With HTML5
A whole desktop experience recreated using HTML5 to demo what Ubuntu looks like.
The Maxthon 3.1 Story (Or How I Slayed The Dragon)
During my Chinese web browser “Maxthon 3.1 Beta”, review (which is yet to come), I saw an innocent looking button, which suggested me to download some themes, little did I know that this would turn into a nightmare…
The story goes like this… I click on the button to check some themes and strange thing happens: it redirects me to a forum. No problem, I thought, it’s just a Beta, maybe there are no official skins yet.
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Opera 12: Disable Search Suggestions
With the release of Opera 12, users can now enjoy search suggestions. However, if you are one of those people (myself included) who are not particularly happy about this change, here is a simple solution to disable already mentioned functionality:
– Type opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowSearchesInAddressfieldAutocompletion in the address bar.
– Uncheck the “Show Searches In Addressfield Autocompletion” checkbox.
– Reward yourself with a cookie, job well done.
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