Friday, February 10th, 2012 9:05 am

Amazon: Browser based app for eBooks

Seattle (ip-192.com): Kindle Cloud Reader is a new HTML 5 based web app from Amazon, allowing users to read eBooks online or offline by using a web browser. The application automatically synchronizes libraries, the last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights for Kindle books. The Cloud Reader works on Apple’s iPad and is currently available [...]

Google launches interactive Body Browser

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): A new Google experiment called Google Body Browser launched on Thursday. The service similar to Google Earth helps users to explore the human body. The Body Browser offers a three-dimensional, multi-layered of a female body. The new service uses WebGL to explore the human anatomy. Since the programmatic interface for 3D graphics [...]

Web: Google Chrome moves to third place

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Chrome continues to shine and is now the third most popular browser in the U.S., according to StatCounter, a web analytics company. Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is still leading. Combining all versions of IE, Microsoft has a market share of 52 percent, followed by Mozilla's Firefox (28.5 percent). Chrome passed Apple's [...]

Apple: Safari 5 adds reader, extensions

Cupertino (ip-192.com): Apple just released the latest version of its web browser, Safari 5. It has the ability to detect and reformat multipage articles into a single page for easy reading. Called Safari Reader, the new feature automatically removes advertising and other clutter from web pages and presents spread out articles in a scrollable, easy-to-read [...]