Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs, can turn app-like websites into website-like apps. Browsers are beefing up support for these useful hybrid apps, and we show you how to install and use them. I've been ...

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Work or play, modern lives are entirely, irrevocably online, and getting more complicated by the day. The number of online tools developed to contain and tame them, at the office and throughout all ...

Apple is removing the ability to install home screen web apps from iPhones and iPads in Europe when iOS 17.4 comes out, saying it’s too hard to keep offering the feature under the European Union’s new ...

Progressive web apps are officially no more for iPhone users in the EU. Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images No, it's not a temporary issue in a beta version of iOS – Apple is officially killing home ...

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage blocking customers worldwide from accessing and using web apps like Excel Online and online services. The list of affected services includes Microsoft 365 ...

After four months of living without native apps on my phone, I’m not going back. If you try this experiment, you’ll probably find that all of the apps on your phone are also available as web apps. I ...

Apple last year introduced the ability for third-party web browsers to add web apps to the iOS Home Screen, a feature that was previously exclusive to Safari. However, these web apps still depend on ...

As someone with a tech-related job, I’m regularly bombarded with questions about the best smartphones, why emails might have suddenly stopped showing up, and how to back up photos and videos. There’s ...

Microsoft’s Office Web Apps-SkyDrive combo are great tools for working online, as long as you’re using a traditional mouse-and-keyboard PC. But if you’re using a tablet such as an iPad or one of the ...