According to new statistics released by Bango (http://news.bango.com), a mobile analytics and payment specialist, the volume of mobile web browsing from Android phones in the U.S. grew by 400% between quarter one and quarter two of 2010. In comparison the volume of growth from Apple devices was just 13% over the same period, representing an actual percentage market share decline of 16%.
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Softpress Systems has released Freeway 5.5 , a new version of its web design products, Freeway Express and Pro. Versions of both Freeway Express and Freeway Pro are available from the Softpress web site (http://www.softpress.com)
According to Softpress Managing Director Richard Logan, alongside Freeway’s extensive existing feature set, Freeway 5.5 has a range of new functionality including:
Read MoreThe Escapers has released Flux 3.0 (http://theescapers.com/flux2), an update of the Mac OS X app that allows drag ‘n drop creation of web pages without the need of knowledge of XHTMLICSS (though you can twiddle with the code if you like). Major new features include:
° Tab support in Page Designer, which lets you make the most of your screen real estate by viewing all your pages in tabs;
° List & tree views in File manager, for making the managing large and complex sites easier and quicker;
° Widget palette, for creating easy galleries, jQuery effects, using Dojo widgets and more;
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Cenzic’s web application security report for the first half of the year blames WebKit problems and phone software bugs for Safari and Chrome flaws. WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages.
WebKit provides a set of classes to display web content in windows, and implements browser features. It was originally created as a fork of KHTML as the layout engine for Apple’s Safari, but is now portable to many other computing platforms and is used in Google’s Chrome Browser.
Read MoreThe Connected Convergent Devices (CCDs) market will claim a global installed base of over 400 million units by 2014, according to a recent study from Strategy Analytics (http://www.strategyanalytics.com).
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