It was inevitable, but we’re still disappointed. Facebook has shut down the single most useful application ever to grace its tightly restricted platform. The Newsfeed RSS app was built using the...

Microsoft will make the release candidate of Windows 7, the next version of its desktop operating system, available as a free download on Tuesday. Interested parties should sign up for a Live.com...

We’re quickly reaching the point when many of our favorite online applications can now also be used offline. Gmail, Google Reader, Zoho Writer and other popular apps all offer offline access...

When a web app wants to know where you are, it can now just ask Google — providing you’re using the latest version of Firefox. Google and Mozilla have partnered to geo-enable the next wave of...

What a day for Facebook. The company has announced it is becoming an OpenID relying party, enabling users to log in to Facebook using an OpenID from any provider like MySpace, Google, Yahoo or...

Opera has pushed out a pre-alpha build of the next version of its flagship desktop web browser. For Opera 10.5, as the next version will be known, the focus is on speed, and while this pre-alpha release is a long way from done, the speed boost is...

Firefox has finally achieved one of its main goals, surpassing Internet Explorer as the most popular web browser. This latest shift is illustrated by a new batch of browser share stats from analytics firm StatCounter, which is making the rounds on...

Twitter’s API has spawned hundreds of mashups and third party software apps, but now it’s growing even further — outside sites have begun mimicking an API to piggyback on Twitter clients. It started last week with a clever hack by WordPress...

Mozilla has released the fifth, and reportedly last, beta version of the next Firefox browser. Firefox 3.6 has seen more than 100 bugfixes since beta 4, including improvements in Firefox’s performance, stability, and security. If you’d like to take...

Over the last few months, Google has been busy optimizing its free Gmail service for mobile phones. In a post on the Google Mobile blog, the Gmail team highlights the various optimizations it has steadily been building into the mobile version of the...