Sunday, February 5th, 2012 4:05 pm

IE9: Privacy features will limit tracking

Redmond (ip-192.com): Microsoft’s upcoming IE9 browser will feature anti-tracking tools that allow users to control what data third parties can collect. Consumers will be able to create "Tracking Protection Lists" and control how third-parties can track them when they’re online. "We believe that the combination of consumer opt-in, an open platform for publishing of Tracking [...]

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 [...]

Google Chrome shines in latest survey

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Chrome search engine shines and now accounts for a 6.7 percent market share, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer dives for the first time in years under the 60 percent mark, according to April 2010 statistics from web analytics and market research firm Net Applications. Chrome is now in third place, up from [...]

Microsoft shows IE 9 preview

Redmond (ip-192.com): Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) will feature HTML5 integration, background compiled JavaScript, and scalable vector graphics (SVG) capability. IE 9 is also expected to run faster, since it will offload tasks usually handled within the browser to the graphics processor. It has also the capability to use CPU cores to handle [...]