August 15, 1995 is an important day in India. Internet access was made available on that special day by VSNL (now part of Tata Communications). For the past few days, many articles have been published about the 25th anniversary of the internet in India. It is good to see the people behind bringing the internet […]
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India Browser War: Firefox flat, Chrome gains
Many of you must have seen advertisements of Chrome in print (and few hoardings too). Is it paying off? The latest survey does show Chrome gaining ground on the great Indian browser war. Firefox has remained flat, where as IE has lost ground. Safari is popular on Mac systems, I don’t see many on PCs […]
IE6-Gmail users, time to upgrade
Received an email from Google Apps team today, Starting on October 14, 2010, we will phase out the older version of Gmail, and the “Older version” link in the Gmail interface will disappear from the footer section of the page. To use the standard version of Gmail, users must have any one of these recommended […]
Browser recommendation now goes the corporate way
Which browser do you use? It depends on whom you ask. Most home users in India who are non-techies would be using Internet Explorer. Over 50% of the browser traffic for most portals in India is from Internet Explorer, which is fine. The sad news is approx 40% of IE users are still with version […]
Google fuels and advances the eulogy of IE6
While we hear a lot of noise about Microsoft Internet Explorer being evil, it still rules the browser market. Its share might be reducing but it still holds a comfortable majority. Even on Oneindia.in majority of users use Internet Explorer (over 50%) of which IE6 is the most popular version. Not good. Indian surfers are […]