Mozilla released Firefox 3 on Tuesday, opening a new front in the browser wars.
A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too.
Microsoft will make modifications to Windows Vista's search feature in service pack one to appease competition concerns from Google, as well as head off further antitrust battles with US regulators.
In a first among the major Internet search engines, AltaVista.com will begin offering advertisers the opportunity to have their Web sites listed at the top of search results, causing concern that a valuable tool to sift through the Web could be compromised by commercial pressures.
Search and directory service Looksmart Australia has been ranked number one in the world, with a 76.7 percent network reach in the US topping Microsoft’s 74.8 percent.
The Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista offer BitLocker, a new data protection feature that does volume-level encryption on your hard disk drive. BitLocker complements, and in some cases replaces, Windows EFS (Encrypting File System). Walk through the steps for enabling BitLocker with this gallery.
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Virtual Folders is one component of Vista's new information visualisation, organisation, and search features, designed to relieve some types of data management nightmares.
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A few months later than originally planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3, the widely used open-source Web browser. Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of features that Mozilla says should improve security, ease of use, rendering of Web pages and location of previously visited Web pages.
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