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An epic battle of good and bad (rumor sources)!

Posted May 16, 2012 - 1:57 pm

Your dad’s Wall Street Journal was the sheet that aimed to tell you everything you needed to know that morning to face the many-headed, irrational beast known as The Market. Your Wall Street Journal? It wants to have the very best sourcing on what your next iPhone is going to look like, and it usually succeeds.
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Clearing up a few myths about the newly renovated Chrome OS

Posted April 16, 2012 - 12:34 pm

Now that Google’s released a developer preview of Chrome OS’ almost entirely new look, it feels like a good time to do some Q&A.
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Five Key Things about Google's Chrome for Android Beta

Posted February 10, 2012 - 12:29 pm

There’s no Flash. None. Nada. And that’s just the way Adobe wants it, supposedly.
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Chromebooks are the electric car of laptops

Posted January 27, 2012 - 1:41 pm

The Chromebook looks right now to the average laptop buyer like an all-electric car looks to the average car buyer: full of what-if questions and untested theories of living
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Breakfast links: Mozilla stumbles after Chrome

Posted July 26, 2011 - 9:10 am

Plus: Netflix finds that angering customers isn't profitable.
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Does Facebook own your friends?

Posted July 5, 2011 - 3:15 pm

With the introduction of Google+ last week, the search/ad giant is finally in direct competition with Facebook. Or it will be, once Google gets over the opening week willies and reopens the service to allow the teeming hordes inside.
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Breakfast links: IBM bests Microsoft, if only briefly

Posted May 23, 2011 - 7:00 am

Plus: Google imagines a links-only Web.
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Firefox 4 downloads doubling IE9's = Microsoft win!

Posted March 23, 2011 - 12:30 pm

Mozilla's new Firefox 4 browser was downloaded more than 4.7 million times since its release Tuesday, doubling the 24-hour download rate of Internet Explorer 9, which was made available last week.
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Pwn2Own Chrome gets no takers; Android security gets taken

Posted March 10, 2011 - 11:10 am

Hackers at the Pwn2Own conference skipped a shot at Chrome; the real hacking work came from fake Android updates with real Google code.
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Google offers patches to fix Chrome, $20K to crack it

Posted March 1, 2011 - 3:15 pm

Google is entering Chrome with the highest bounty in an annual hacking contest to showcase its security, enhanced by bounties paid to those who find flaws.
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In search of thriving open source

Posted January 26, 2011 - 3:37 pm

A look at the extensions field finds one browser far ahead of the others in terms of available extensions.
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How to make Firefox faster

Posted January 14, 2011 - 6:12 pm

The beauty of open-source like Firefox is having lots of ways to juice it. The ugly is getting in its guts to do that. Here are some more attractive options.
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Chrome H.264 video decision a vaccination against license trap

Posted January 12, 2011 - 10:35 am

Yesterday's announcement that Google would be dropping built-in support for the H.264 video codec in the HTML5 <video> tag caused quite a stir in the open source and browser sectors, with many people lining up to either praise Google or deride them for the decision. Here's why they should be praised.
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The Chrome Web Store: fancy icons and not much more

Posted December 8, 2010 - 8:42 am

The idea of having a Chrome Web Store stocked with apps was kind of appealing; after all I can waste plenty of time poking through the iTunes App Store or Android Market. But the reality, at least for now, didn't live up to the hype.
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Can Google's Chrome save the netbook market?

Posted November 4, 2010 - 1:50 pm

A year ago, the idea of netbooks with Google's Chrome OS was big news, but that was before the iPad changed the mobile computing landscape. As Google nears the first shipments, their success (and that of the netbook market as a whole) is a lot less assured than when they were first announced.
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Google Chrome OS is for Netbooks, Android for Smartphones & Tablets

Posted September 9, 2010 - 1:25 pm

Puzzled by what Google has planned for its two operating systems? Here's what's what.
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Don't look now, but Google is following you

Posted July 9, 2010 - 7:43 pm

This location tracking stuff has gotten seriously out of hand. You don't even have to leave your house; just sitting at your computer, somebody somewhere really wants to know exactly where you are.
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Does Firefox Have Cooties?

Posted June 16, 2010 - 4:50 pm

Lately, it seems, there's been a small movement amongst key projects in the open source community to move away from stalwart open source browser Firefox to up-and-coming newbie browser Chromium.
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It's time to update your Web Browser

Posted April 1, 2010 - 12:53 pm

Internet Explorer isn't the only Web browser that's been bedeviled by security problems lately. Firefox has trouble too.
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And the browser losers are ...

Posted March 25, 2010 - 6:21 pm

Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox. The one major Web browser left standing? Google Chrome.
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Will Internet Explorer 9 be any safer?

Posted March 16, 2010 - 2:27 pm

Microsoft has opened the curtains on a prototype of the next generation of Internet Explorer, but will be any safer than earlier editions?
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A Quick IE Fix

Posted March 15, 2010 - 2:16 pm

While neither is perfect, Microsoft has released a pair of quick fixes for its latest IE security hole.
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The Microsoft good news/bad news Patch Tuesday

Posted March 11, 2010 - 7:34 pm

Microsoft fixed a bunch of Windows problems. Yea! On the same day a major Internet Explorer zero day vulnerability was revealed. Boo!
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Another day, another Internet Explorer security hole

Posted March 1, 2010 - 4:48 pm

It seems like every other week there's a new Internet Explorer security hole. Here's the story on the latest.
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Who cares if IE is patched soon?

Posted January 19, 2010 - 2:56 pm

Microsoft promises that IE will be patched again soon. So what? It will just break again.
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