Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been wanting people in China to quit using Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) for quite some time - but it didn’t want things to pan out like this. Now a rival web browser, made by Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU) and called the 360 Safe Browser, has far surpassed the market share of IE as a whole, and is now reportedly used for 57 percent of all web surfing in the country. But New York-based Digital Due Diligence (DDD) has evidence which suggests that Qihoo has used some seriously evil tactics to ...
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HomeShop18 and Microsoft Buddy-Up, Offer Vouchers to IE9 Upgraders
One of India’s biggest e-commerce sites, HomeShop18, has formed a tie-up with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to give online shopping gift vouchers to users who upgrade their browser to Internet Explorer 9, aka IE9. As a part of the promotional partnership, IE9 will even be available for download from the HomeShop18 site. All the online shoppers need to do is switch over to IE9 and then pin the e-commerce site to their Windows 7 taskbar, making the shopper eligible for the voucher the next time they use the check-out. It’ll also make returning ...
Jan 11 2012
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China Loves IE6 – So Can the IE Auto-Update Finally Kill It Off?
China has far-and-away the greatest number of users of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) ancient Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser, with Chinese users of the decade-old web browser accounting for 27.9 percent of its global usage. That’s according to statistics compiled by Net Applications and which are touted by Microsoft itself. The tech giant actually wants IE6 to die so that the web as a whole - which is still so dominated by Windows and, by extension, Internet Explorer - can be a safer place. That’s the reason behind Microsoft’s decision to follow the ...
Nov 24 2011
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QQ Browser App Goes Global, Now In the Getjar App Store
Tencent (HKG:0700), the Chinese social media giant, is taking its QQ Browser app global having signed a deal with the American third-party Android app store, Getjar. Right now, QQ Browser is being heavily promoted on the Getjar frontpage - on both desktop and mobile - and has already amassed over three million downloads. This Android international version now supports three-languages: English, Indonesian, and Hindi. QQ Browser for iPhone and Android is cloud-powered - as emphasised by its icon - and states that by unloading the compacting of images via its own ...
Oct 15 2011
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Chinese High School Student Develops iOS Browser
While Chinese copycats usually make more headlines, its important to remember that there are some amazing talents in China creating equally amazing work. A 19-year-old teenager, who goes by the name of Peakji, has already developed lots of excellent software, most notably Mammoth 4, an impressive mobile browser which won the top award at Macworld Asia. As it was made by a senior school student, Mammoth 4 has a very distinctive design and user’s experience. The interface of Mammoth 4 is so concise that you can only see a slide bar ...
Oct 12 2011
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Tencent Revamps WebQQ and Relaunches as Q+
Tencent’s (HKG:0700) QQ is the most widely used IM service in China. However only Windows users can enjoy the complete QQ experience - though the Mac version finally got video support this summer. In 2009, Tencent released WebQQ, a web app for the IM service which was widely welcomed by Linux and Mac users (and Windows users who could sneakily use it in the browser at work!). Yesterday Tencent totally revamped WebQQ to become Q+, which is a full-featured web app with icons and a dock that looks more like ...
Oct 6 2011
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Firefox 7 Gets an ‘Appcenter’ – But Only in China
The recently-released Firefox 7 browser has a fun feature that’s unique to China - a web apps panel called Appcenter. It’s developed by Mozilla China’s engineers at their Beijing HQ and doesn’t appear in international versions of the browser. Firefox’s Chinese Appcenter is quite like the Google Chrome web apps homepage that houses all your preferred web apps - whether they’re games, or web services. But the Firefox Appcenter is more like a catalog - there’s no need to download. It opens in a pinned tab, and can be kept open ...
Sep 27 2011
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Chinese-Made UC Browser Targets America, After 20 Million Overseas Downloads
UC Browser, the mobile web browser from China that has turned into a global hit, has passed the major milestone of 20 million overseas users. And now it seems ready to push into the US market too. That’s the assessment of UC Web’s CEO, Yu Yong-fu (pictured below), speaking recently at the Silicon Valley-China Wireless and Mobile Conference (SVCWM). His company’s mobile web browser - for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, WinMo 6, Symbian, and numerous JAVA-based phones - is a rare example of a Chinese software product becoming a global success. The Beijing-based ...
Sep 20 2011
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360 Browser for Android, Yet One More Choice for Chinese Netizens
Desktop and mobile web browser apps in China are increasingly becoming freebies, like tea-bags at hotels, from companies desperate to be remembered amongst a crowd of competitors. And so Qihoo 360 has launched a mobile browser for Android this week, in a bid to keep ahead of major rivals such as Tencent. The 360 Browser for Android (pictured above) has three separate versions: for smartphones, 7-inch tablets, and 10-inch ones as well. The company already has a popular Windows browser, which is based on Microsoft’s IE7. Thankfully 360’s mobile efforts are made ...
Sep 15 2011
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Google Expands Chrome Web Store to India and 23 Other Countries
After launching its YouTube partner program yesterday, Google has extended the Google Chrome Web Store to India and 23 more countries, making it more relevant and useful to users with localized apps, extensions, and themes across various categories. This seems to be a new ploy by Google to gain more Indian users who might be unaware of Chrome apps and extensions. However if you are an avid Google Chrome user, the Chrome Web Store is essentially the same as before, except for the fact that it now includes India-specific apps from developers and ...
Sep 19 2011
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Baidu’s ‘App-ified’ New Homepage Wants You to Hang Out [REVIEW]
Baidu’s CEO Robin Li unveiled a revamped search engine homepage last Friday at its annual conference, and it immediately went live for registered users. It brings web apps, bookmarks, and trends to the frontpage, so that users can truly make it a home on the web. It means you can stream music from Douban or play Angry Birds from right on Baidu.com. So let’s take a look at what comes with this new, ‘app-ified’ approach. First off, you’ll need to sign-up for a Baidu account, and then sign in to get ...
Sep 5 2011
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Why You’ll Want to Stack Your Tweets With StackRoll [INTERVIEW]
Twitter can sometimes be a difficult medium to master. Very often we want to get people’s attention, but at the same time we don’t know when is the right time to tweet a joke or a great article or a funny video. There are a number of third-party tools that can help you schedule tweets, and here in Indonesia we have one too. It's called StackRoll, and was created by Didik Wicaksono from Kualiku Apps. We interviewed him in an effort to learn more about his service. 1. StackRoll is the ...
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