> Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs shared a secret with his audience at a technology conference outside Los Angeles Tuesday: The idea for the iPad came before the iPhone. via [sfgate.com](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/01/financial/f210540D69.DTL&feed=rss.news)Those of us who follow Apple as closely as I do wouldn’t consider this a secret. It’s fairly obvious, once you start using the iPad, that much of the iPhone OS was designed with the bigger form factor…

> Rather than using a secure browser and creating corporate—or firewall—policies to block unwanted time-wasting sites, companies are depending on the browser’s increasing obsolescence to render the sites unusable. This allows IT managers to keep users out of [YouTube](http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/youtube-to-kill-ie6-support-on-march-13.ars) without having to actually confront the users they are supposed to be supporting; it’s the *sites’* fault that Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t work, not the IT department’s fault for foisting that legacy browser on its users. via…

> Of the 20 lost percentage points, nearly nine were earned by Firefox, which now has nearly 25% share. Another nine were taken by WebKit browsers: two and a half were eaten up by Apple’s Safari (to reach 4.72% share), while Google’s Chrome expanded to take 6.7% (from zero prior to 2009). Opera gained nearly a percentage point in the same period (to reach 2.3%). > > Statistics [published](http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200904-201005-bar) by StatCounter were even less flattering for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which was ranked…

> Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s General Manager of Internet Explorer, cut to the chase rather quickly, by stating “the future of the Web is HTML5.” He also said that Microsoft has been “deeply engaged” in the HTML5 process with the W3C, the standards body that drafts the specifications for how HTML5 should work. The company’s Internet Explorer 9, now in beta for Windows users, features HTML5 support. Hachamovitch says that while the W3C does not specify a video format for video embedded in HTML5 sites, Microsoft has joined Apple in…

> The death of the iPhone is being foretold and the outlook for the PC and laptop aren’t much better. Influential security company CEO [Eugene Kaspersky](http://www.kaspersky.com/virusanalysts) told *PC Advisor* at [InfoSec](http://www.infosec.co.uk) Tuesday that both are set to be consigned to history. > > The iconic Apple iPhone will either not exist or occupy a very small niche satisfying the needs of committed Mac fans around five years from now, predicts Kaspersky. > > The founder of [Kaspersky Lab](http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/) says…