Mobile browser face-off: Opera Mini vs Skyfire vs Safari vs Firefox vs Internet Explorer

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Ten years ago, the idea that we would be viewing complex webpages on our phones was preposterous. We didn’t have the screens, we didn’t have the broadband speeds and we didn’t have mobile browsers. Well, we didn’t have anything resembling a smartphone either.

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Apple refreshes iPods, shrinks AppleTV into streaming terminal

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The buzz and buildup leading to yesterday's Apple event was apparently justified. Announcements on the continuing iOS strategy, iPad software updates and the usual sales figures were quickly obscured by a series of big announcements in the personal media player space.

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Apple to live stream launch event today

Apple's September 1 announcement/event is a few hours away and the reveal will be streamed live for Mac users at Apple.com. Apple is expected to unveil new iPod music players, possibly an updated AppleTV and an OS update to the iPad but there may be a few more surprises. Apple launch events are not traditionally streamed live but video is posted at a later date so we're wondering what makes this announcement different. 

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Apple's App Store celebrates 250,000 apps

Apple has recently hit a milestone of selling 250,000 apps in its ever expanding iOS ecosystem. While most of these are iPhone and iPod Touch apps, a growing number are iPad specific. Apple is maintaining a strangehold on the smartphone app market for smartphones and tablet devices. Google's Android OS is second and while it has recently sold more smartphones its selection rings in about 100,000 apps.