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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 03, 2013
Initial work focuses on internal improvements and brings very little change for web developers
Update: Chrome developer Alex Russell has an excellent read on this for those interested.
On the C...
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by Rene Ritchie
Mar 25, 2013
Don Melton, former Engineering Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, talks to Guy and Rene about open-sourcing Mozilla, building Nautilus, creating WebKit -- the rendering engine now u...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 06, 2013
Opera has announced that it is making the switch to WebKit, and they're giving everyone a look at their first effort with a beta version of the browser packing the new engine. Building on top of...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 05, 2013
The folks at Opera have released their new web browser for Android, dropping the Presto browser engine in favor of webkit, which is also used in Chrome and the AOSP browser. The beta build is availa...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 13, 2013
We first heard of Opera's intentions to switch to WebKit back in January, following the release of a leaked internal video which made mention of the 'Ice' browser. Today, Opera has con...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 19, 2013
Opera is said to be bringing a new WebKit based browser to Android and iOS. Named "Ice", it presents a radical departure from what we're used to seeing with the stock Android Browser, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2013
Yesterday it seems that every single Windows Phone user was over at WPCentral lamenting the loss of the Google Maps web app for Windows Phone. It seems that Google made a change that redirected...
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by Alex Dobie
Sep 25, 2012
The Internet's in a bit of a tizzy this morning over reports from a Korean news that Samsung has begun development of its own WebKit-based mobile browser, to be used in future smartphones.&...
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 11, 2011
BOLT browser, which up until now has been in a private beta, is now available to all for free in the Android Market. Version 3.0 brings many improvements to the highly touted speedy browser, just as...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 21, 2011
You folks who came from Windows Mobile or, more recently, defected from BlackBerry should well remember the Bolt browser. It's webkit based, as are a good number of other browser these days, and it's ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 07, 2010
Skyfire this afternoon shed a little light on where it's headed in the future with Android. You'll recall that the mobile browser company recently bought Kolbysoft -- maker of the popular Steel browse...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 11, 2010
In a bit of an Android browser shake-up, Skyfire -- best known for its Windows Mobile browser -- has purchased kolbysoft, which produces the popular Webkit-based Steel browser. For the time being, St...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 22, 2009
If you're an avid reader of Google News, you might have noticed a mobile facelift of the news aggregator on your Android devices. That's because Google just released the new Google News for Mobi...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2009
Google snuck in a pretty cool feature for Android at MWC--Offline Gmail. If you're a big time Gmail User, you might know that a new Labs feature was implemented that allows offline viewing and usin...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 24, 2008
Amidst all of the hoopla of the Android Event we may have missed a couple of good nuggets about the T-Mobile G1 and Android in general. Luckily, Ryan Block has filled us in with a couple of good on...
