First look: Opera Mobile 9.5 web widgets show promise

Opera has released a new Opera Mobile 9.5 beta with support for Symbian and a new widget runtime engine. Ars takes a look at the widget functionality and Opera's mobile widget SDK.

October 21, 2008 - 09:19AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Benchmarking Flash Player 10 (Updated)

Adobe has released version 10 of its popular Flash player plugin. Among the major improvements included in the new version, Adobe touts performance enhancements and better support for alternative operating systems. Ars tested Flash Player 10 on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows Vista to see how it fares.

October 17, 2008 - 07:30AM CT - by Ryan Paul, David Chartier

Opera study: only 4.13% of the web is standards-compliant

Opera has developed a new indexing system that analyzes the structure of web content and it found that only 4.13 percent of the 3.5 million pages indexed by the system actually pass the W3C's validator.

October 15, 2008 - 09:08PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Scared profitable: Valley VCs preach return of the Old Ones

From the "good luck with that" dept., Sequoia Capital tries to scare its portfolio CEOs straight with a look at how bad things might get. And they might accidentally be right.

October 12, 2008 - 09:35PM CT - by Jon Stokes

Hands on: SkyFire browser brings Gecko to Windows Mobile

The new SkyFire web browser uses server-side prerendering with Firefox's Gecko engine to bring a desktop-like web experience to mobile devices. Ars puts SkyFire to the test and discusses some of the underlying technology with the company's senior director of product management.

September 28, 2008 - 11:00PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Hands on: NHL.com 2.0 goes top shelf with streaming video

Hoping to catch up with the other leagues, the NHL has launched the public beta of its new website, which includes a brand new subscription-based video service streaming league-wide games and a new fantasy pool in cooperation with Yahoo! Sports.

September 25, 2008 - 11:17AM CT - by Frank Caron

The Echo Nest hatches music APIs, offers more cowbell

A web startup called The Echo Nest has opened up APIs for its new music intelligence service. It uses audio analysis and natural language processing systems to interpret sound in audio files and study information about music on the Internet.

September 08, 2008 - 09:07AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Byte-sized stories: Twittering a tiny tale

Some innovative authors have adopted Twitter as a new medium for writing short fiction. Ars looks at some tiny tales and evaluates the literary potential of microblogging.

September 01, 2008 - 08:15PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Mobile group to establish security standards for mobile web

Mobile operators like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Vodafone have joined the BONDI initiative supported by the Open Mobile Terminal Platform. Through BONDI, they hope to establish specifications and even offer reference implementations for security standards when developing mobile websites.

July 02, 2008 - 05:35PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

A tantalizing taste of Firefox 3: testing RC1

The first Firefox 3 release candidate has been released and is now available for download. This tantalizing taste of Firefox 3 is stable enough for widespread use, but there are still a few more bugs that have to be resolved before the official release.

May 19, 2008 - 07:20PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Hands on: Opera 9.5 beta 2 improves speed, adds features

Opera has released Beta 2 of the 9.5 version of their web browser, and we've taken a quick tour to see what's in store. First impressions? It's faaaaaast.

April 28, 2008 - 08:45AM CT - by Jeremy Reimer

JavaScript slows down the Internet; WebKit to the rescue

External scripts can get in the way of loading web page elements in parallel for current browsers, but a WebKit fix increases page load speed by as much as 50 percent.

April 01, 2008 - 09:40AM CT - by Iljitsch van Beijnum

Adobe gives web, desktop development a breath of fresh AIR

Adobe officially released AIR 1.0 this morning along with Flex 3, enabling web developers to take their code and turn it into desktop apps without having to start from scratch. Adobe said that it plans to continue porting its own apps online too, while creating AIR versions to use on the desktop.

February 25, 2008 - 11:22AM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Jaiku users flee to Twitter as a result of Google's neglect (updated)

The Jaiku web service is floundering after being acquired by Google. Increasingly frequent feed server failures and the lack of new features are steadily driving Jaiku users to competing services. Google is missing in action and hasn't responded to the growing number of complaints.

January 08, 2008 - 10:00PM CT - by Ryan Paul

.Mac browser hole: web coders collectively slap forehead

You can learn a lot about someone from their browser history. You can learn even more by downloading everything from his or her iDisk. .Mac users, protect yourselves while using public terminals.

December 18, 2007 - 10:40AM CT - by Jeff Smykil

Google Toolbar 5 intros pref syncing, Gadgets to IE users

Google has released Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer today, which adds support for Google Gadgets, Google Notebook, and settings syncing to the popular browser add-on.

December 12, 2007 - 10:40PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Webjimbo 2.0 brings iPhone UI, boatload of editing options

Webjimbo, the web-based portal for digital junk drawer app for the Mac, Yojimbo, gets a major upgrade. It now has more customizability, privacy options, and (of course) an iPhone portal.

November 13, 2007 - 11:41AM CT - by David Chartier

Malware-pushing web sites on the rise, say researchers: 66,000 and counting

The number of web sites being exploited to foist malware upon visitors is increasing, and they're not all small sites, either.

November 12, 2007 - 01:20PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Serious cross-site request forgery vulnerability found in Gmail

A new vulnerability found in Gmail makes it possible for a malicious web site to surreptitiously cause a Gmail user's e-mail to be redirected to another address.

September 27, 2007 - 09:19AM CT - by Ryan Paul

comScore to supplement page view measurement with "visits"

comScore tweaks its web metrics system, announcing today that the company will start reporting data on average visits per visitor as page views become a thing of the past.

March 15, 2007 - 02:26PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng