Safari Still Winning the Mobile Browser War

Apple’s Safari captured 61.79 percent of all mobile browser Web traffic in March, according to Net Applications.
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How and Why We Track: Confessions of an Ad “Tracking” Company

By most estimates, the first online ad appeared roughly 20 years ago. As a technology, cookies have been used for almost as long.
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Mozilla to Block Third-Party Cookies in Firefox

The Mozilla Foundation, makers of the popular Firefox Web browser, will begin to block third-party advertising cookies by default, a move sure to upset online advertisers who rely on behavioral audience tracking to better serve online ads. The move is in line with that of Apple’s Safari, which has blocked third-party cookies for a long time, yet diverges from Google’s Chrome browser, which allows cookies of all types.

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The Right Thing

If I say “iOS users overwhelmingly use the Safari browser, here’s the stats”, you’d say “okay, that’s interesting, what can I learn from that, and what opportunity does it represent to the industry?” But if I say “minorities in the tech industry overwhelmingly have this experience, here’s their examples”, you don’t say “Okay, what can [...]

Yahoo’s New “Homerun” Homepage Is Rolling Out More Widely Across Several Browsers

Silicon Valley Internet giant hoping for more than a base hit.
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Apple Streaming iPad Event on Web, iOS, Apple TV

You don’t have to go to San Jose to see Apple’s product launch today, as long as you have Apple hardware and a broadband connection: The company is streaming the event on its Web site (via Safari only), on iOS devices, and on Apple TV. And if you like text and pictures, AllThingsD will have that, too, beginning around 12:30 pm ET.

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Aereo Adds Browser Support for TV-Over-Web Service

Aereo, the TV-over-the-Internet streaming start-up, is now offering its service on Web browsers for PCs and Macs. Aereo had previously supported the Safari browser on MacBooks, but is now adding support for Opera, Firefox and Chrome. The service also works on iPads, iPhones, Apple TVs and Roku boxes.

Tech Pundits Take iPhone Complaints Directly to the Source on “Saturday Night Live”

Whiny tech bloggers, meet Chinese assembly-line workers.
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Baidu Births Mobile Browser

Baidu debuted a new mobile browser on Monday that it expects to be on 80 percent of China’s smartphones by the end of the year.
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Is Apple’s Mobile RSS Reader Down for the Count?

Is RSS the floppy disk of Web content, in Apple’s eyes?
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Internet Explorer on the Upswing