Apple Safari 4 released to Developers

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Apple has apparently started sending the next version of the Safari browser to developers.

Safari 4 would be part of the next update of OS X Snow Leopard. Maybe it will even come earlier as Snow Leopard is still a year out.
Apple promises to have the fastest Javascript implementation ever in Safari 4. Read more

Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:48:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Kenyans queue in last minute frenzy for Safaricom

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By Antony Gitonga

NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - Just hours before east Africa's biggest IPO closed on Wednesday, Kenyans -- including many who lost everything in post-election violence -- thronged brokerage houses to buy Safaricom shares.
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Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:57:55 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Apple Safari 3.1.1 fixes $10,000 Bug

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Apple released a new version of its Safari web browser. Safari 3.1.1 features a couple security fixes including one that won $10,000 cash prize.

Charlie Miller discovered and exploited the vulnerability on a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest conference last month. The hack earned him $10,000. Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:03:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Safari 3.1 launched

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Apple today introduced the new Safari 3.1 browser.

Apple calls the new Safari 3.1 browser the world’s fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs.

In addition to loading web pages 1.9 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and 1.7 times faster than FireFox 2, Safari 3.1 runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:38:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Weekly Top 10 Stories feature Leopard, Windows Safari and 500,000:1 TV

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Apple announced this week at the WWDC 07 the details about OS X Leopard and surprised with a Windows version of the Safari browser, which already got downloaded 1 million times within 48 hours.
Archos announced their new 5th generation PMPs yesterday and Samsung surprises with 70 inch LCD HDTV with 500,000:1 contrast ratio.

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Posted on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple says Windows Safari clocks in at 1 million Downloads in 48 hours

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Apple announced that more than 1 million copies of Safari for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday.

The current version is 3.0.1 build 522.12.2. The latest build is supposed to have some security fixes, that some people discovered in the first hours of the release. Read more

Posted on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:18:24 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Safari 3.0 for Windows not working in Korea

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People already found all kinds of issues of the beta version of Safari for Windows. In Korea the Chosun Ilbo found out that Apple's browser cannot display Korean on web pages.

As an avid reader of Korean language sites (As a tech reporter you need to be fluent in all Asian languages), this is a total no go for me using Safari on Windows at this point. Read more

Posted on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple releases Safari Browser on Windows

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Steve Jobs announces in his keynote speech at the WWDC 07 that Apple is releasing their Safari web browser on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Apple boasts that Safari has much better rendering and JS performance than IE.
So IE and Firefox have a new pal to play browser wars with. Read more

Posted on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:29:42 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr