Its 13% share of world browser usage is startlingly high considering that to run Firefox you have to find the Firefox Web site and download the software yourself.
Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) in an increasingly quality-oriented app world, not a browser world, then you have to do something to move up on the value scale, " says Doctor, adding: "It seems to me that part of Google's strategic thinking is that it is becoming a more quality-oriented news world.
Or, when Netscape disrupted the world with its browser in the mid 1990s, there was eventually Internet Explorer.
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In 2008, people asked whether the world really needed another browser.
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If ever the need arises for a large keyboard and some earnest typing, they sit down in front of the nearest available computer anywhere in the world, open its web browser and access all their documents online.
It was passed in 1992, before the world even had a commercial Web browser let alone viable Internet video technology.
Is the addition of another browser in the online world and another phone option essential or even helpful in making the world more connected?
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There are few things in this world quite as frustrating as a web browser on an E Ink device, and the PRS-T2 does little to change that.
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Clark, Andreessen and a group of programmers created and sold the first widely marketed and user-friendly Internet browser, mapping out the World Wide Web, beating Microsoft to the punch, and making themselves millionaires in the process.
Online toolkits like Google Apps and Six Apart still seem more like gimmicks than real competitors to Microsoft Office today, but as server farms grow and become more efficient, the browser will evolve into the world's workspace.
Mosaic, the first browser, was the killer app for the World Wide Web.
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The world is slowly moving away from the desk-bound browser and interacting on their handheld devices, where screen estate is a premium and users are far less forgiving of banners, obtrusive text, and data-rich media adverts.
He and his team analyzed the world of screen-based content and realized that there was no browser-based technology specifically built for rendering apps.
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Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, launched a cellphone at this year's Mobile World Congress that is entirely HTML5 based.
So if, for instance, its numbers show China's share of world Internet users is half what the CIA's numbers show, Net Applications would count each Chinese browser in its data twice.
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