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Google's Chrome Browser Not Yet Secure
In theory, Chrome should be more secure than other browsers because rather than being a single-threaded application, each tab is handled by its own sandboxed process. read more
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Sounding Board: Readers Weigh In
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"I like [Chrome]. A lot of people seem to be taking an instant dislike to it because it's new and they don't understand it yet -- it's only been around for a day! I think it will be very successful."
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Let's Grok!
Google Chrome: Browser Or Cloud Operating System?
By most accounts, the Google Chrome development team has dramatically achieved its goal of building a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. read more
Mozilla Fires Back At Google: Our JavaScript Engine Runs Faster
Mozilla posted data from a speed test that pitted Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine against Mozilla's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which should appear in Firefox 3.1. read more
Walt Mossberg Posts In-Depth Review Of Google's Chrome
The Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg has been testing Google's Chrome browser for a week next to Firefox and the latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. His verdict? "Chrome is a smart, innovative browser that, in many common scenarios, will make using the Web faster, easier, and less frustrating." read more
Google's Chrome-yism: Are Multiple Internets The End Game?
The debut of Chrome raises the question of where the Internet is heading as specific client- and server-side technologies become deeply aligned with one another at the expense of openness. read more
'Say Cheese!' Google Updates Picasa And Web Albums To Version 3.0
Google is calling Picasa 3.0 (beta) the next-generation of photo-editing software. New features include facial recognition capabilities. read more
Android Dream Pics
If you managed to tear yourself away from the barbeque this weekend, you may have spotted these supposedly leaked photos that Engadget snagged of the first Android-powered handset. read more
Google Launches Google Video For Business
The company is using its Google Apps business to provide the infrastructure necessary to search videos, restrict access to them, rate them, comment on them, and download them. read more
BlackBerry Wins Versus Windows Mobile For Google Apps Mail
Though it's the best thing going and Gmail is one of the few online e-mail services that supports it, IMAP is, for all intents and purposes, a busted protocol and there isn't much that Google or the various e-mail client providers have done to overcome its weaknesses. read more
Startups Bring Google's Parallel Processing To Data Warehousing
Aster and Greenplum have made Google's MapReduce compatible with SQL for use in the parallel data warehousing systems based on open source PostgreSQL. read more
Google Shows Off Android App Winners
All of the 10 teams that won the Android Developer Challenge top prize of $275,000 utilize GPS in some manner. read more
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Editor's Note
Google Chrome: More Or Less Privacy?
Google's new Chrome browser may end up being more secure than current browsers, thanks to its sandboxed multiprocess architecture. But it's not yet clear whether it will be more private.
On the positive side, Google Chrome offers Incognito mode, a way to surf the Web without leaving a record of sites visited on the user's computer. This hidden browsing mode does not hide the standard log information that Web browsers transmit to Web servers.
One potentially negative aspect of Google Chrome is that it is more reliant on user browsing history than other browsers. Unless explicitly operated in Incognito mode or its default behavior is changed, Chrome records Web sites visited, recently closed tabs, recently saved Web pages, and frequently used search engines. It uses this information to populate a New Tab page when one is created.
Google users with other browsers also may have their browsing history recorded at their discretion, but Chrome emphasizes browsing history as the key to a good user experience. But such convenience isn't without the potential cost of diminished privacy.
As Google's Matt Cutts stresses in a blog post aimed at defusing conspiracy theories, Google Chrome isn't secretly spying on users. It's not doing anything nefarious.
But Chrome is making data about users' online activities more central to the operation of the browser. And where there's data, there are bound to be data breaches.
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RESEARCH, RESOURCES, AND REPORTS
Podcast: Google's Matt Glotzbach On Addition Of Video For Business To Google Apps
Given today's addition of secure video publishing and sharing as a feature to the $50 per user per year version of Google Apps, businesses need not be Fortune 500 companies to get what essentially is a private version of YouTube for a fraction of what most enterprises would pay for such a solution.
SOA: Convergence And Consolidation Tech Report
As the service-oriented architecture industry mashes itself up, we look at which types of intermediary products are necessary and what can be brought inside the network infrastructure.
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