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Slingpage today announced the release of its innovative social browsing application for Firefox. Previously available for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Slingpage for Firefox now provides users of the popular Web browser the ability to instantly discover and share the Web. Slingpage helps users keep track of favorite topics and discover popular Web pages by subscribing to Slingcast feeds. These categorized content feeds sling updates directly to the desktop, as they happen. Users can choose...

Q. I am concerned that Outlook Express is being phased out by Microsoft, even though I've taken the trouble to get new copies of the software for each successive new PC. Is there a way to "transfer" my Contacts from Microsoft Outlook Express to another address book software on my PC? A. There is some confusion between Microsoft Outlook Express, an e-mail program which is being phased out, and Microsoft Outlook, a different e-mail program that will remain in use. There's also confusion about...

According to a recent study, nearly half the online population is at risk because consumers have refused to install security updates to their browsersThe study, which was conducted by Google, IBM, and The Swiss Institute of Technology, found that 600 million users had not updated their Internet browser with the appropriate security updates."Failure to apply patches promptly or missing them entirely is a recipe for disaster," the report stated.Internet criminals often use websites to...

BreakingPoint Systems, Inc., the content-aware network and application testing company, today released the "Killed ActiveX Instantiation" strike. Microsoft has issued a list of more than 445 ActiveX controls that should be stopped, known as "kill bits," essentially a vendor-provided blacklist of software component vulnerabilities. The BreakingPoint ActiveX strike allows Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs) and service providers to ensure that network devices that provide coverage for...

By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK -- With all the attention on the new Firefox 3 Internet browser, it's easy to miss two strong, innovative rivals. Add it all up, and Microsoft Corp.'s market-leading Internet Explorer has some impressive challengers. Opera 9.5, for instance, lets you share bookmarked Web pages and notes among several computers. And another browser, Flock 2, brings Firefox 3's improvements to an already strong system for sharing photos and blog entries and linking friends on...

Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), the global leader in on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, today announced KITE 2.0 (Keynote Internet Testing Environment), the latest version of Keynote's product for testing and analyzing the performance of Web applications across the Internet cloud. KITE 2.0 is a powerful Web performance testing product that gives users the flexibility of testing instantly from their desktop or from...

Q. Can Internet Explorer and Firefox 3.0 coexist on the same computer? A. Yes. In fact, you can have two, three or four different Web browsers installed on the same personal computer, whether Windows or Mac. You can even run different browsers simultaneously. For instance, as I type this, I am running IE 7, Firefox 3.0 and Safari 3.0 on the same computer at the same time. The only slight hassle is that you will have to decide which to designate as the default browser, the one that launches...

By Bloomberg News Mozilla Corp.'s new Firefox 3 Web browser, the main rival to Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Internet Explorer, shattered the company's previous record by attracting more than 8.2 million downloads in its first 24 hours. Firefox 3 passed its predecessor's first-day download total of 1.6 million in five hours, according to the company based in Mountain View, Calif. Mozilla released the program Tuesday. The software, available for free, loads Web pages as much as three times...

By Edward C. Baig Even if you're an active Web surfer you probably don't pay much attention to the browser you are using. By default, you likely employ Microsoft's Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, if only because Internet Explorer sits right there on your desktop. The Apple crowd typically sticks with Safari. Still, many of us in recent years have been drawn to a feature-rich browser called Firefox from the non-profit Mozilla organization. This week Mozilla released a speedy and more...

By SCOTT A. MAY Every year we come closer to living in a virtual world. From education to employment, it seems like nearly every aspect of our daily lives requires that we be connected to the Internet. Like any dependent technology, it's only a bad thing if we allow it to be. For many people, surfing the Web has become their main source of news, entertainment and, sad to say, social interaction. They spend all their leisure time online, either tethered to their desktops or free-roaming and...