The blog plost received many comments,Īs people were afraid Find A Grave might no longer be free.Ī little noticed changed in ownership was the sale of the remaining rights of Burke's Peerage to Burke's Peerage Limited. OneGreatFamily placed an advertisement that the company was for sale. industry developments take-overs, mergers and acquisitionsīack in January, Ancestry24, a South-African site, announced the closure of Ancestry24, and Ancestry24 officially closed on 2013 Oct 22.Ī bought the more than four million records from Ancestry24.īillionGraves was acquired by Otter Creek Holdings, which already counted My Legacy Memorial as one of its subsidiaries. Mozilla was already avoiding vendor prefixes for Gecko and Google's Blink will not use vendor prefixes for experimental CSS features,īut instead keep those features behind the enable experimental web platform features flag in about:flags, The announcement with the most immediate impact on the web is that several vendors are dropping vendor prefixes. Mozilla decided to stop automatically running browser plug-ins,Īnd Google decided to stop supporting the NetScape Plug-in API (NPAPI). That same day, Mozilla and Samsung announced that they are working together on a new rendering engine called Servo. The WebKit rendering engine was forked from the KTHML rendering engine,Īnd now Google decided to fork Blink from the WebKit engine. ![]() The news was met with mixed responses, not only because Presto has long been the rendering engine to test with,īut mostly because it raised the spectre of WebKit becoming the de facto rendering engine for the web.Įarly in April, Google announced that Chrome would abandon WebKit in favour of Blink. The new product is still called Opera, but is merely yet another WebKit browser. The Opera Mail and RSS reader are available as Opera Mail now.īy abandoning Presto, Opera the company killed the core of the Opera product. Opera released Opera 15, the first release of Opera based on Chromium instead of the Presto engine. Internet Explorer had improved so much, that Google retired Chrome Frame, and is now promoting Google Chrome with Legacy Browser Support (LBS). The best news out of Microsoft was that Steve Ballmer will step down soon. The release of Windows 8.1 could not save Windows 8 from widely being considered a turkey,Īnd Microsoft's Scroogled campaign, although not entirely without merit, was widely ridiculed. Sales of Windows Phones and Windows RT tablets remained far behind. Samsung and Sony introduced smartwartches that underwhelmed, but tablets continued to be hot.Įven the Google Chromebook, which is neither a laptop nor a tablet, did very well. LG is planning to use WebOS in their SmartTV. ![]() Hewlett-Packard introduced and abandoned the WebOS-based TouchPad tablet in 2011.Įarly in 2013, Hewlett-Packard sold WebOS to LG and introduced its first Android tablet. ![]() Ubuntu introduced Ubuntu for Android and the first Firefox OS phone was released,īut the battle for the mobile space remained one between Apple iOS and Google Android, with Microsoft as the also-ran,Īnd BlackBerry an historical footnote for still existing.Īpple and Samsung continued to battle in courts around the globe. Google finished the acquisition of Motorola Mobility, and Nokia, once the undisputed leader of the mobile phone business, was bought by Microsoft. Google upset many users by shutting down Google Reader, but new and existing alternatives fared well. The dayglo appearance of Apple iOS 7 prompted parodies. Google continued to push Google Glass despite users already being labelled glassholes.Īrticles extolling the virtues of 3D printing may have exceeded the number of 3D printers. QuickOffice, which Google had bought in 2012, was released a freeware. ![]() The USA's NSA was revealed to be spying on almost everyone for no reason whatsoever.īitcoin became a household word and smartphones are commodities now. Yahoo discontinued the AltaVista search engine. Genealogy 2013: events & trends industry & technology Articles extolling the virtues of 3D printing may have exceeded the number of 3D printers.
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