Tag Archives: browser

22 Jun

Command Line to Browsers – Full Circle

By Nishith Rastogi 1 Comment

When I first started using internet back in 1996, Command Line was my interface to the Internet (I had a shell account from VSNL and I used to use Lynx Browser) and was introduced to Linux then via a ‘telnet’ … Read More »

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08 Oct

Browser War Hits the Road

By sinha 5 Comments
Browser War Hits the Road

I wonder why browsers have been used for these ‘viral’ campaigns (philosophically speaking, browsers are the gateway to the outside world!).. And Firefox on a bus!:

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08 Oct

Opera in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu; Handset tie-ups

By sinha 6 Comments
Opera in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu; Handset tie-ups

Image via Wikipedia Opera has just released the 9.6 version of it’s desktop/mobile browser and the newer version enables one to write e-mails in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu with Opera’s built-in e-mail client, Opera Mail. Opera is strongly focusing in … Read More »

 
27 Sep

German Company uses Chrome to Launch Iron

By sinha 1 Comment

The metallic browser war is in and comes Iron, after Chrome. A german company has used Google’s Chrome (which is open source product) to launch their own browser, Iron. So how is Iron different from Chrome? It offers the same … Read More »

 
03 Sep

Google chrome and why Microsoft should acquire/invest in Mozilla Firefox

By sinha 30 Comments
Google chrome and why Microsoft should acquire/invest in Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome is finally live and is almost showing the middle finger to Microsoft and Mozilla. Lets track back and understand where did Google fail in it’s bid to conquer the world (reality check: apart from search and gmail, no … Read More »

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02 Sep

Google Chrome – The Business Idea

By Saurabh Garg 5 Comments
Google Chrome - The Business Idea

Google today announced Chrome – their own version of a browser (via TechCrunch). Everyone on the Internet is talking about it. And here is my two cents on it. I dont know a lot of things from the technology perspective … Read More »

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22 Jul

Decoding the Firefox Guinness Record Marathon and Few Lessons for Startups

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Decoding the Firefox Guinness Record Marathon and Few Lessons for Startups

Part 2 of 3-part series on Online Communities/Social Media. Well, I have been meaning to write about the Firefox Download Day and their grand record. One brand which used Social Media Marketing and an existing community to generate buzz like … Read More »

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22 Jul

Opera’s Mobile Browsing Report for India: Google and Orkut Lead the way

By sinha 2 Comments
Opera’s Mobile Browsing Report for India: Google and Orkut Lead the way

Opera has released the mobile browsing report for the month of June and here are the India stats (for most visited sites and top handsets): Top 10 sites in India (# of unique users) google.com orkut.com yahoo.com gamejump.com (up from … Read More »

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18 Jun

FireFox Download day – Goofups and Cake from IE

By sinha 2 Comments
FireFox Download day – Goofups and Cake from IE

Not sure whether FireFox has finally made it to Guinness book of world records, but one thing was quite clear – FF didn’t plan for the download traffic.. There were major goofups in the entire operation: Wrong link Even though … Read More »

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