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Microsoft's Bing warms up to Apple's new Safari 5 |
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Apple has announced that Microsoft's Bing will be one of the search engine choices within Safari on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and within the Safari browser on the Mac and PC. Apple has released Safari 5, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4 according to Apple, and the ability to choose between Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field.  Bing for Safari will include some HTML5 work for the iPhone version, even as Microsoft said it was incorporating HTML 5 into its mobile browse product at m.bing.com. In a blog post, Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President, Online Audience Business Group said Microsoft is also working to improve its Bing mobile application available at the App Store for the iPhone and may pack it with some more features. Safari 5 will be available for both Mac and Windows, and includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. Safari 5 adds over a dozen HTML5 features for developers to create media-rich experiences, including full screen playback and closed captions for HTML5 video. Other new HTML5 features in Safari 5 include HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource and WebSocket. |
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Global Software Top 100 - Edition 2011
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CRM companies: a short list
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- A research publication discussing the trends and the key players in the software industry in the United States. Posted 15 December 2010.
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