As the entry age for web access heads ever southwards, preventing young minds from the perils of the internet is a growing concern for parents. For this reason, Microsoft teamed up with the UK-based CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center) to create a special kid-friendly version of its IE9 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

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

Facebook Timeline recently went live for all — well not exactly. The social network shipped its shinny new scrapbook feature without support for its members on Internet Explorer 7. “IE7 users visiting profile pages that would otherwise be Timeline-enabled are presented with the old Facebook profile design, complete with a number of very evident styling [...]

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 [...]

Don’t start sniggering into your sleeves over your puerile “number two” jokes, but Chrome is now the second most popular browser in the world. According to data from StatCounter, as of November, Chrome claims a 25… Tweet This Post

Internet Explorer can no longer claim more than half of the web’s traffic, as of October, ending more than a decade of the default Microsoft browser’s reign. Safari’s hold on 62.17% of mobile traffic has reduced IE’s overall share of web browsing, despite still claiming 52… Tweet This Post

Microsoft and others have been employing new, powerful techniques to track people’s activities online through so-called “supercookies,” The Wall Street Journal reports. And now that Microsoft has been called out, the company is shrinking away from the practice and says it will be discontinued… Tweet This Post

Google’s web browser Chrome is now the second most popular browser in the United Kingdom, according to web metrics company Statcounter. Chrome’s market share has been on an upward trajectory globally, but in the UK Google’s browser has been doing exceptionally well, having captured a 22… Tweet This Post

People who use Internet Explorer are dumber than people who use Firefox, Chrome, Safari and other Web browsers, according to a consulting company. No, really – that’s the result of a recent survey of 100,000 people… 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. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today… Tweet This Post