Posts Tagged with ‘Internet-Explorer’

DivX Replaces Google Partnership With… Yahoo?

Michael Garrett

DivX, a growing video compression software company, has announced that it has signed a two-year deal with Yahoo! that replaces a previous similar agreement DivX had with Google, according to Tom Huntington, a spokesperson for DivX.
As the terms of the contract state, DivX software will now be offered with a co-branded Yahoo Toolbar and a version of IE7 pre-configured with Yahoo tools. Yahoo!, in exchange, will now provide links to DivX and its online video service, Stage6, within the [...]

YooRL – Feel the Web Right Inside Your Browser

Svetlana Gladkova

It is my usual pleasure to report on the startups I am particularly fond of. That is why today I will share with you exciting news from YooRL, the web service that permits you to create a special link from any URL and share it with your friends by any means whatsoever to further track how the link propagates on the world map. The small Russian startup provides a totally new way to deal with how you share the links. [...]

Clipperz Updating with Greater Accessibility

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I reviewed Clipperz a few months back and was happy to hear that there have been several updates to the service that make it more accessible for a larger audience.
Since my initial review, Clipperz has added language support created by dedicated Clipperz users in Portuguese and Japanese, added support for Internet Explorer and Opera browsers, released a scaled-down version called Clipperz Compact that works with Firefox and Opera to allow direct login to sites from the sidebar, and introduced card [...]

Google Debuts ‘Gears’, A Trio Of Developer APIs

Paul Glazowski

Google's made many headlines lately, but today one particular announcement by the company shadowing almost all others. We say almost, because the biggest elephant in the room remains the Google-DoubleClick deal. $3.1bn is one card that’s really very difficult to trump.
On to the latest news. It turns out Google’s been hard at work trying to construct a bridge between online and offline use of applications that as of now can only be accessed with Internet connections, and come out from [...]

Ajax Exploit Threatens Web 2.0 Security

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

In the comments section of my review of Clipperz, CEO of Clipperz Marco Barulli disagreed with my concerns about using third-party libraries for Clipperz, as well as an open-source JavaScript cryptographic library. Fortify Software would seem to agree with me, releasing an advisory this week on a known vulnerability in Web 2.0 sites that rely on Ajax.
Fortify examined 12 popular Ajax frameworks, including the biggies - Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! - as well as open-source releases. Their [...]

Megite 2.0 - Your Personal RSS Newspaper

Robert Sanzalone

Review: Megite RSS aggregator service. The ability to read ALL your feeds on one website everyday.
I find explaining RSS and feeds to a newbie is as confusing and frustrating as explaining what the Internet was to everyone back in 1994. What is it? How does it work? How is it different than a webpage (or back then, using CompuServe?). One of the causes of this confusion is how people read RSS feeds. Some use their browsers (Safari, Firefox and the [...]