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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Alternative web browser Opera announced yesterday that they’ll be undergoing a bit of heart surgery, transferring from their existing rendering engine—Presto— to the widely popular WebKit. The company also proudly claimed that there are now 300 million people using Opera these days, an impressive feat for the browser that many main stream users likely aren’t aware of. Those common every day consumers who do use Opera...

Featuring HTML5 and a Powerful WebKit Engine, Espial TV Browser Optimizes Interactive TV Content and OTT Web Video OTTAWA, Sept. 25, 2012 /CNW/ - Espial, a leader in on-demand TV software and solutions, today announced that the Espial TV Browser has been selected to power Mitsubishi Electric's latest set-top boxes (STBs) deployed by NTT Plala, a leader in the Japanese IPTV market, to deliver a more compelling IPTV service to its customers. Leveraging a sophisticated range of...

Trigger’s recently launched Forge framework now provides web developers with the simplest way to build for both mobile and web; First to Enable HTML5 Deployment for Native Mobile, Mobile Web and Web Apps From a Single Codebase San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 12, 2012 Trigger.io today announced it has expanded its recently launched cross-platform development framework with a new ‘Build-to-Web’ option. This option enables web developers to create and deploy web apps in addition to...

HP announced this week that their WebOS mobile operating system has become available as open source software. The main product, known as WebOS 1.0, will be released in September, according to Slashgear.com. The development environment called Enyo has already been released under the Apache 2.0 license. Enyo allows developers to create Open WebOS applications that work independently of whichever web browser that is being used, meaning WebKit is not necessary. Enyo also opens up WebOS to...

Trigger enables web developers to create native mobile apps, running across multiple platforms, from a single HTML5 codebase San Francisco, Calif (PRWEB) January 17, 2012 New service, Trigger, today announced the launch of its cross-platform mobile development framework targeted at web developers who want to be able to create native mobile apps. With Trigger, developers only need to write apps once in HTML5, and use the service’s simple JavaScript API to access native functionality on...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The Maxthon 3.0 PC web browser has been given top honors from two of the Internet's oldest, most respected, and most visited technology publishers -- CNET and PC Magazine. CNET gave Maxthon's 3.0 browser for Windows a straight five out of five-star score for its overall quality, innovativeness, stability, and ease of use. PC Mag awarded Maxthon for being one of the best free software programs of 2011. Maxthon CEO Jeff Chen said,...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Maxthon International, the developer of popular browsers Maxthon 3 and Maxthon Mobile for Android, announced today that industry-standard benchmark tests show Maxthon 3 is almost twice as fast as Microsoft's soon to be released Internet Explorer 9. "The test results are unmistakable," said Maxthon CEO Jeff Chen. "Maxthon 3 provides a faster web experience than IE 9." Maxthon put the two browsers through a battery of tests that measure...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) continued its commitment to rapid development of its mobile applications for education with the announcement today of Smart Mobile Web access for Blackboard Mobile(TM) Central, the Company's popular campus life and services application, as well as a new, native application for Palm® webOS(TM) devices. The new options further expand the number of users who can access the Blackboard Mobile Central suite of...

Google is offering $20,000 in prize money for the winner of the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest on top of the $15,000 already promised. Any contestant who is first to successfully exploit its Chrome browser during the contest will be rewarded the prize money. Chrome was originally going to be excluded from this year's competition because it is based on the same Webkit engine that runs another Pwn2Own entry, Apple's Safari browser. "It shows a mature attitude to the problem because they...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- And one browser to render them all. Render websites, that is...even sites optimized for IE 6. Today, Maxthon bridges old and new (while making your web experience A LOT faster) with the release of Maxthon 3: the industry's first browser to use a dual rendering engine architecture that identifies and quickly displays websites using the best engine for the site, WebKit or Trident. In addition to the twin jets of WebKit and Trident,...