Microsoft pulled out the champagne today with a report that its Internet Explorer 6 browser had dropped below 1 percent usage in the U.S., a sign that businesses and crazily stubborn users have finally upgraded to a better browser… Tweet This Post

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories… Tweet This Post

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still the world’s most popular browser, but it and Mozilla’s Firefox lost a lot of market share to Google’s Chrome in 2011, which is now firmly in second place… Tweet This Post

Google appears to have paid bloggers to write about Chrome in a way that violates its own paid link policy, according to Search Engine Land. If Google applied a similar penalty to those it’s doled out to past violators, the Chrome download page would be removed from its search engine results for between a month [...]

Both Net Applications and StatCounter have released their figures for browser market share for 2011 and it makes for largely unsurprising reading. Internet Explorer’s full share has dropped but it still maintains the top spot — a 52 percent share according to Net Applications and 39 percent according to StatCounter… Tweet This Post

We’ve already seen MAME burn brightly (and briefly) on iPads across the world and now it’s been delicately ported across to Chrome’s Native Client. Admittedly, the graphics may not stand up against recent gaming wares seen on Google’s new platform, but it’s still able to cope with the likes of Pac-Man… Tweet This Post

The past few days, there’s been a lot of talk about web browsers. The report that Google will be paying Mozilla close to one billion dollars over the next three years to ensure that their search engine remains the default for Firefox is fascinating for a few reasons… Tweet This Post

I like to install as few things on my PC as possible. That’s why when TweetDeck released an app for Google Chrome in Dec. 2010, it was an epiphany. No need to run another program in the background… Tweet This Post

In the near future, Windows users’ Internet Explorer will automatically upgrade to the latest version whenever one is available, Microsoft has announced. Automatic updates have been one of the best known features of Google’s web browser Chrome, and now Microsoft’s IE follows suit, but only if the user has enabled automatic updating in Windows… Tweet [...]

Subscribers to the beta and dev channels of Google’s browser have been enjoying the fruits of the company’s syncing labor for sometime now. But, with the stable release of Chrome 16, the Mountain View crew is finally bringing those features to less adventurous users… Tweet This Post

Google announced today that its three-year effort to create a muscular browser technology that can run heavy duty apps such as console-like games is now ready for prime time. Google has provided the platform to allow games to run in the Chrome browser — without a need for installation on a PC — and make [...]

Omar Shahine has sent SkyDrive off to the Microsoft gym in the hopes that it’d trim up ready for its forthcoming update. Users will soon be able to enjoy beefier document management powers, share individual files from private folders, control permissions and post files to Facebook in a couple of clicks… Tweet This Post