Is Apple buying Twitter?

Twitter is the new darling of web 2.0 and it’s attracting potential investors like flies to a ripe cowpat. The list of interest companies has now grown to include Facebook, Google and, most surprisingly, Apple. That’s according to the Silicon Valley gossips at TechCrunch anyway.
Allegedly, Apple is in “late stage negotiations” which means that all [...]

New beta Firefox 3.5

Mozilla on Thursday released the third beta version of Firefox 3.1, aka Shiretoko, one of the frontrunners in the current race to improve Web browsers.
According to the Firefox 3.1b3 release notes, the new version includes better “Web worker” multitasking abilities, a faster Gecko rendering engine for showing Web pages, and upgrades to the TraceMonkey engine [...]

Safari 4 Is More Than a Speed-Loader

Sure, Safari 4 is fast, but that may not be the most striking feature for the average user. The way it displays pages in Top Sites and Cover Flow, especially for history scanning, is what reviewer Chris Maxcer found most useful. The new tab position took a little getting used to, but the added screen [...]

IE8 Does Not Pass Acid3 Because Standards Not Official

Recently, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8, which boasted much better standards compliance than previous iterations of the browser. While it passed the Acid2 test, IE8 failed miserably in the Acid3 test, and many people criticised Microsoft for it. Microsoft Australia’s Nick Hodge has stated that Microsoft purposefully decided not to support Acid3, because the test [...]

Google AdSense Video Units Are Being Discontinued

AdSense video units, a program that allowed AdSense publishers to embed YouTube videos along with Google Text ads, will be discontinued from April 2009.Unlike referrals, the video units weren’t really popular among website owners so in case you haven’t seen an AdSense video unit before, here’s a screenshot for you. AdSense video units were first [...]

Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities

Yahoo is to close its personal web hosting site GeoCities later this year.
In a statement, the firm says it will no longer be accepting new customers and will focus on helping “customers build new relationships online”.
Yahoo bought GeoCities for $3.57bn at the height of the dotcom boom in 1999.
At its peak, GeoCities [...]

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