Pocket is celebrating its official anniversary, meaning it has been one year since the company changed its name from Read It Later to its current moniker, Pocket. To celebrate this landmark, the company has added a new feature to its popular apps, which are currently on Android, iOS, Mac, Safari, and Chrome. The big new feature is called Send to Friend,…
As the Blackberry rolls into the U.S, bringing with it the brand new OS, Blackberry 10, BB has announced a new and exciting way for iOS users to catch a glimpse of BB10 on their own devices. By visiting Blackberry.com/glimpse iOS users can actually use Blackberry’s latest operating system via their web browser, experiencing features such as the…
NetMarketShare.com has shared its most recent web traffic analysis for March 2013, and it looks like Apple’s mobile Safari browser is back on the up. Having previously lost a little ground to other browsers, Safari has climbed up to 61.79% web market share. That’s up just 55.41% in February. Compared to the same period in 2012, Apple’s share…
Image Credit: AllThingsD Mozilla’s Vice President Jay Sullivan has stated that his company’s Firefox browser will not be coming iPad or iPhone until Apple relaxes its restrictions on third party browsers. Apple’s rules currently stop developers creating browsers that aren’t based on Apple’s version of WebKit. Apparently Firefox can’t be done that way….
According to analytics firm Chitika Insights, iOS 6.1 is dominating iOS web traffic. As of February, 83.1% of all the iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches accessing the web are running iOS 6. If you remember, iOS 6 came out only five months ago, so these are some pretty insane numbers. Possibly more impressive, though, is the fact that iOS 6.1 was released…
According to the latest web browser usage analysis undertaker by Akamai, Apple’s Mobile Safari browser made up a huge 60% of all browsing. During the fourth quarter of 2012, Mobile Safari was a clear winner in web use across all networks. However, when the company specifically filtered out Wi-Fi connections and only counted handsets using cellular networks,…
During his time with us, Steve Jobs became renowned for many things, however perhaps one of his most illustrious talents was his keynote speeches. Today, a former Apple employee, Don Melton, revealed to the world some of the inner workings of those keynote speeches. Melton was a team leader in developing Safari and Webkit. He is already known for…
One decade. That is how long those of us outside of Apple have heard the word “Safari” and immediately thought about the web browser, and not the African adventure. Above is the video of Apple’s 2003 MacWorld keynote where it announced the browser that is now in its 6th rendition. The video is 2 hours long, so if you have some free time, have at it. If you…
A potentially serious threat to privacy has been discovered in the Safari app of Apple’s iOS 6 software. The bug affects all iOS 6 users, regardless of which build of the operating system you use. Essentially, what the software error does is enable Javascript in Safari without consent of the user, a move described as a “serious privacy and security…
Safari has been the default name for Apple’s internet browser for 10 years. But it could easily been called something else if Steve Jobs had his way. According to some recently revealed information, the late great co-founder had ‘iBrowse’, ‘Alexander’ and ’Freedom’ on the shortlist. A developer who worked on the project with Apple back in the day…
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