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Adobe says goodbye to Flash on the Android phone

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15 Aug
2012
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If you want to view Flash-based websites on your Android phone, you’ve got hours left to grab the plugin off the Google Play Store.

Some time today, on Wednesday, Adobe will be pulling it off the download store as part of a long goodbye to a multimedia format once popular with hundreds of thousands of websites.

 
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Chrome is world’s top browser – for a day

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23 Mar
2012
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Google Chrome became the world’s top browser last Sunday, thanks to users in India, Russia and Brazil who turned to Chrome over other browsers to get online, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. That honour was short-lived, however, when netizens returned to Internet Explorer (IE) dominated workplaces the next day.

“While it is only one day, this is a milestone,” said Aodhan Cullen, CEO of StatCounter in a statement Wednesday, adding that Chrome still faces a battle to unseat rivals such as IE and Firefox in countries like China, United States and Germany. StatCounter based its numbers on some 15 billion page views per month (4 billion from the US) from its network of over three million sites.

 
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Opera introduces browsers for tablets and TVs

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23 Mar
2011
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The dust has barely settled from Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4, and we’re getting news of a new effort by Opera aimed at breaking into the smartphone tablet market.

 
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Notes from unConference 2009

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17 May
2009
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Unconference 2009

Techgoondu had the chance to be at unConference 2009 held yesterday at the Biopolis, thanks to the kind folks at e27 who had put together an excellent program that brought together some of the top forward-thinkers in the region. Here’s a recap of what I felt were the highlights of the event:

Panel discussion: Innovation in Asia and where is it heading?

 
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Firefox 3 gets world record

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3 Jul
2008
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It’s official – the Guinness World Records has bestowed Firefox 3 as the most downloaded software in 24 hours! From June 17 to 18, the browser was downloaded over 8 million times. Weeks before Firefox 3 was ready, Mozilla rallied Firefox users to download the browser on June 17 Download Day and gathered 1.7 million pledges. Now, the total number of downloads worldwide stands at 28 million, and Singapore contributed about 130k downloads. Not too bad a number, considering that the numbers from our bigger neighbours aren’t very much bigger. With Firefox becoming more popular, I’m still baffled by the fact that some media websites still don’t work properly in the browser. Cross-browser testing as part of the 101 of web development somehow just hasn’t sunk in.

 
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