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Microsoft Testing the Waters Against Google?
Microsoft posted a blog today trying to make a case against Google Chrome, a hot competitor against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. “Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make and how Internet Explorer 8 keeps your information private through two address bars and In Private browsing,” notes the Microsoft TechNet post. As [...]
Facebook: Bringing ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’ to the General Public Level
Last week or so, Financial Times declared Facebook a “bigger hit than Google.” Hitwise, an online intelligence research firm, found Facebook “surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week” ending March 13, 2010. In just one year, visits to Facebook increased 185% whereas, Google had only increased 9% in [...]
Bug Confirmed in Newest Mozilla Firefox 3.6
Mozilla confirmed yesterday with sufficient details that a vulnerability in the latest Firefox release could result in remote code execution by an attacker. ComputerWorld tells us the “the bug was disclosed by Russian researcher Evgeny Legerov a month ago in a message posted on a forum hosted by Immunity, the Miami beach, Fla. developer best [...]
Download and Preview Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft gave a “platform preview” for Internet Explorer 9 this morning at the Mix10 conference in Vegas, a tech conference for web designers and developers. There are still many stages to go before IE9 hits beta — the address bar is missing, browsing buttons and security features are not there yet either. Since “this build [...]
Dot-Com Celebrates Its 25th Birthday
Symbolics.com was the internet’s first domain name. It’s since been taken over by Aron Meystedt, CEO of XF Investments, and relocated to symbolics-dks.com, but Symbolics.com was registered 25-years ago to this day by a Massachusetts computer company of the same name. Makes you feel old, doesn’t it? I don’t remember even using the internet for [...]
Google Reader Adds a Bit of Snap, Crackle and Pop
Google Labs just released a snazzed up version of Google Reader, a web-based aggregator for reading Atom and RSS feeds. Appropriately named Google Reader Play, the web-app requires no initial set-up and still “adapts to your tastes.” Keep in mind, this new application does not replace Google Reader — it’s just a fun read. Items [...]
Internet Explorer Flaw Causes Malware Vulnerability
Are you using Internet Explorer 7 or 8? Beware, it’s possible that you are at risk for a recently discovered vulnerability revealed by iSEC Security Research. “Microsoft is investigating new public claims of a vulnerability involving the use of VBScript and Windows Help files within Internet Explorer,” says Jerry Bryant, senior manager with the Microsoft [...]
Google’s Pulling the Trigger, Farewell Internet Explorer 6
Beginning March 1st, Google’s tipping over the dominoes and starting the phase-out of Internet Explorer 6. March 1st begins Google’s drop for IE 6 support in regards to Google Docs and Google Sites. “As a result, you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products — as well as new Docs and [...]
Chrome Extensions Finally Stable
Google has finally brought extensions out of beta and stabilized them for the newly released update of Chrome. Bookmark syncing is packaged in there as well — automatically synchronize your Chrome bookmarks on different computers. Keep in mind that this update only applies to the Windows version of the web browser. No word yet on [...]
Reasons Towards Google’s Eventual World Domination
Google has been in the news a lot lately… new technologies, new innovations, new products… It’s all about Google. And that is why I think they are eventually going to take over the world. Well, the technological world, at least… Here are a few recent “waves” (no pun intended) Google has been making: Google Introduces [...]
