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Amazon Cloud Player now works with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Amazon's Cloud Player music streaming service launched only with Android compatibility, but an update rolled out this weekend quietly introduced basic support for Apple's iOS. If you have an Amazon Cloud Drive account (5GB free, plus a free 20GB upgrade if you purchase an album via Amazon MP3), you can now stream music on iOS devices too.

By Daniel Ionescu | 09 May, 2011 07:19

Tags: storage, software, safari, online stores, music files, iOS, internet, cloud computing, cloud, browsers, applications, Apple, amazon
13 features that make each Web browser unique

Many cynical users assume Web browsers do little more than dutifully render HTML. The content is the most important part, they say, so it makes little difference which browser you use.

By Peter Wayner | 02 May, 2011 20:08

Tags: web browsers, software, safari, opera, Internet Explorer (IE), Google Chrome, firefox, applications
Hackers expose Safari's flaws in five seconds

When it comes to browser security, Internet Explorer usually gets ridiculed and beaten up the most. And though Microsoft's IE8 was quickly unraveled at Pwn2Own, Apple's Safari 5 was hugely embarrassed by getting hacked in five seconds flat.

By Brennon Slattery | 11 March, 2011 05:01

Tags: software, safari, online security, mozilla, Microsoft, hackers, Google, browser security, browsers, applications, Apple
iOS 4.3 boosts first-gen iPad browser speed by 18 per cent

With all eyes on the iPad 2 that becomes available tomorrow at 5 p.m. in each time zone, Apple has released its iOS 4.3 update for the first-gen iPad, iPhone 3G S, non-Verizon Wireless iPhone 4, and recent iPod Touch models. InfoWorld.com ran the Futuremark Peacekeeper browser tests on a first-gen iPad with iOS 4.2 and with iOS 4.3 to see if Apple's claims of a turbocharged JavaScript engine were justified.

By Galen Gruman | 10 March, 2011 23:13

Tags: web browsers, Verizon Wireless, twitter, tablet PCs, software, safari, mobile technology, laptops, iPad, iOS, hardware systems, applications, Apple
IE9 and Chrome 7 top early HTML5 tests

The newly released sixth preview of Internet Explorer 9 best handles the forthcoming HTML5 standard, followed by Google's Chrome 7 Web browser, according to recent early tests by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

By Katherine Noyes | 03 November, 2010 04:28

Tags: World Wide Web Consortium, software, safari, mozilla, Microsoft, internet, html authoring, Google, firefox, browsers, applications, Apple

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8 killer Safari 5.01 extensions

Apple's new Safari extension gallery looks a lot like the iOS App Store, populated with colorful icons that hold strange and wonderful things. In case browsing the 100 extensions Apple offers for Safari 5.01 is too much effort, here are eight good ones to get you started:

By Jared Newman | 29 July, 2010 08:15

Tags: software, safari, Browsers & Add-Ons, browsers, applications, Apple

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Lab Notes: The Inside Scoop on Browser Speed Testing

If you're a regular PCWorld reader, you may have noticed the Browser Blowout story we posted last week. In it, I looked at various aspects of the major Web browsers, including features, interface, security, and performance.

By Nick Mediati | 03 August, 2010 10:28

Tags: software, safari, opera, mozilla firefox, internet explorer, chrome, browsers, applications
5 reasons to upgrade to Apple's Safari 5

Although it wasn't mentioned during Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address Monday at WWDC, Apple launched an updated version of its Safari Web browser for Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.2 or higher, as well as Windows XP SP2 or higher, Vista, and Windows 7.

By Ryan Faas | 15 June, 2010 03:38

Tags: web browsers, safari, Apple
Safari 5 in depth: Has it sped past Chrome?

The just-released Safari 5 ups the ante in the browser wars, with two major improvements: a performance boost to rival speed king Chrome, the highly useful Safari Reader, which makes it much easier to read multi-page Web articles.

By Preston Gralla | 15 June, 2010 03:49

Tags: web browsers, safari, Google Chrome
Google's Chrome tops Safari: Is Firefox next?

Google Chrome hit a milestone over the weekend when it became the third-most popular browser after Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, according to metrics firm Net Applications. It controls just 4.63 percent of the browser market, but Chrome has made significant inroads against competing browsers, such as the former bronze medalist Apple Safari.

By Ian Paul | 05 January, 2010 08:22

Tags: safari, internet explorer, Google Chrome, firefox
Browser wars redux: Top 5 duke it out

For browser fans, this is the best of times.

By Preston Gralla and Michael DeAgonia | 14 October, 2009 05:06

Tags: web browsers, safari, opera, internet explorer, Google Chrome, firefox

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