Another day, another iPhone rumor–so is this one for real? The current buzz around the blogosphere is that Apple is preparing to offer its iPhone over Verizon’s network, therein ending its thus-far-exclusive arrangement with AT&T. Before you immediately believe the hype, allow me to provide a few reasons to think twice.
CNETNate writes “Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is ’30 times faster than IE7,’ and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include ‘Top Sites,’ which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, ‘Full History Search’ for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while.”
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Apple today announced the public beta of Safari® 4, the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs. The Nitro engine in Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3.
CNETNate writes “Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is ’30 times faster than IE7,’ and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include ‘Top Sites,’ which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, ‘Full History Search’ for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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