The Google Apps Team phasing out IE6

“In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.”

The Google Apps Team (via hannahkc)

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Taming the Information Monster

It seems that the big 4 [Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM] are suffering from an overload of internal internet usage. People are not working — they are emailing, twittering, facebooking, and googling, while at work — and the big information conglomerates are in need to do something about it. Now these companies that created the big information beast will find [...]

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Google donates to Yahoo! [updated]

Big news this morning:  Yahoo and arch rival Google said on Thursday they had entered a non-exclusive partnership on search advertising expected to add as much as $800 million in annual revenue. This deal will give Yahoo! some money to breathe and will take Microsoft off their back. The real reason behind it is to give Yahoo! a [...]

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Adobe + Yahoo = Web 3.0

Can someone please introduce this idea to both of the above companies? Yesterday the news brought back the soap story of Yahoo vs “Big Company”, and I’ve had an idea. I like Yahoo!  I like Adobe! I think it’ll be a good idea if they’ll join hands and merge (or whatever companies do). Two days [...]

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Why everything on a PC is so complicated?

I started working as an intern for a creative agency lately. It’s great and I love the experience. I have only one problem – I’m working on a PC again. I didn’t miss it. For instance, the simplest thing: adding another keyboard language to the OS. I have the permissions to do it, but Hebrew [...]

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Every other browser renders correctly

Yesterday Firefox 2.0 was released. I think it is a moment to celebrate the take over Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Even if it is a way to make Microsoft update IE in a “satisfying” way. With IE 7.0 out, it is going to be harder to make people appreciate the other browsers.   Within the last [...]

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Stop DRM – another right is lost!

From Wikipedia: Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers (or copyright owners) to control access to and usage of digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work. The producers of films and music are [...]

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