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Google Pours Chrome Into Android February 08, 2012 
Google has brought its Chrome Web browser to the Android Market. A beta edition of the browser is available from the app shop now for free, but since its operation is restricted to the latest version of the mobile operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich, only about 1 percent of Android's millions of users will be able to take the software for a test drive.
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Enterprise Web Apps: The Next Generation February 08, 2012 
When the bright folks at Zeebox, a killer social TV site, decided to build their website, they naturally turned to cloud services because they are a startup and had to use their money wisely. They also turned to the Scala language and open source community because they had very specific scalability and performance needs.
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Rival Social Nets Scold Google With 'Don't Be Evil' Bookmarklet January 24, 2012 
Engineers from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have released a bookmarklet called "Don't Be Evil" for the Google Chrome browser. A bookmarklet is a bit of code that runs in a Web browser and temporarily enables added functionality. This one adds more social search results to Google's new Search Plus Your World feature.
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Revamped Signup Process Shoves New Gmail Users Into Google+ January 23, 2012 
Google is incorporating its social network, Google+, in just about every part of its online empire -- including, most recently, its Gmail system. Now, new users who want a Gmail account must also sign up for Google+. It's not necessarily a novel move for Google. The company has been integrating its products for years, from Picasa to YouTube to Blogger to perhaps its most popular productivity tool, Gmail.
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Amazon's Graceful Dance Around Apple's App Store Rules January 12, 2012 
Because Apple has this pesky rule against running apps on iOS devices that direct you away from Apple's ecosystem to buy competing products without using Apple e-commerce engines to handle the transaction -- and shuffle 30 percent of the sale to Apple's bank account -- it's has been a bit harder to buy Amazon.com-based Kindle e-books to read on an iOS device through the Kindle app.
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Facebook Riding Shotgun in New Mercedes Models January 11, 2012 
Facebook will be among the Internet services that can be accessed in new car models from Mercedes Benz. Facebook access is just one of the new features in the second generation telematics system, called "Mbrace2," which will begin appearing in new Mercedes models this spring.
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Microsoft Dances on IE6's Grave January 04, 2012 
Microsoft celebrated the demise of Internet Explorer 6 on Tuesday after usage estimates put the Web browser's marketshare at under 1 percent in the U.S. Microsoft was as happy as anyone to see the browser go. The company has been running a kill campaign for IE6 for years, with Microsoft executive Amy Bazdukas stating in 2009 that "friends don't let friends use IE6."
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No Shelter From a Cybercrime Storm January 03, 2012 
The Anonymous hacker collective has run riot this holiday season, and security experts predict more pain from cybercriminals at large for the coming year. Anonymous announced earlier that it had also cracked the systems of gear vendor SpecialForces.com.
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Auto Updates Nudge IE Users Into the Present December 15, 2011 
Microsoft will automatically upgrade earlier versions of its Internet Explorer browser beginning in January. The updates will be for PCs running Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, Redmond said. Users in Australia and Brazil who have turned on the automatic update feature in Windows Update will be the first to have their browsers automatically updated, and Microsoft will roll out this capability elsewhere over time.
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Google's Native Client Makes Web Apps More Desktoppy December 12, 2011 
Google showed off the results of its Native Client SDK at an in-house event recently, highlighting some of the ways early adopters such as Square Enix, Unity Technologies and Bungie have used the Web development technology. Google originally launched the Native Client SDK in beta
toward the end of last summer in an effort to integrate Web-building tools with compiled code in one easy-to-use browser.
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Chrome Wins Silver in Worldwide Browser Share December 01, 2011
It appears that Google's relatively new Chrome browser has displaced Mozilla Firefox from the No. 2 spot in the worldwide browser market, following leader Microsoft Internet Explorer. "Three years ago, we built Chrome to help spur more innovation on the Web, and we're excited that over 200 million people around the world are using it," Google spokesperson Lily Lin told the E-Commerce Times.
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The Fretful Future of Flash November 21, 2011 
What's the future for Flash devs now that Adobe has turned its back on Flash Player for mobile devices and has shifted focus to HTML 5? Will Flash for the desktop survive or will it die out too? Adobe has pledged to enable Flash devs to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major mobile app stores, but it won't develop Flash Player for new mobile device technology after version 11.1.
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AOL Takes Another Shot at AIM November 17, 2011 
AOL has updated its longstanding AIM instant messaging service and rolled out a preview for the public. The new AIM automatically displays photos, videos and tweets even when users are writing or reading IMs. It also has a chat feature and syncs messages onto all a user's devices. AIM is available in versions for the Web, Windows PCs and Macs, as well as Android and iOS mobile devices.
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All Eyes on HTML5 as Mobile Flash Fades to Black November 17, 2011 
If ever there was an announcement to get tongues wagging in the Linux blogosphere and beyond, it was the news that Adobe will stop developing Flash for mobile devices. That, of course, is just what was announced last week, and the wagging hasn't stopped ever since.
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Google Apps' Help Desk Opens the Phone Lines November 15, 2011 
Google is adding 24/7 phone support for its Google Apps for Business product line -- the first time since the apps launched in 2007. It is a major step forward for Google, which has been pushing to place these apps on the desktop alongside -- or even, hopefully, in place of -- Microsoft's productivity offerings.
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Apple Strikes Up Match November 15, 2011 
Apple has released a new edition of iTunes, version 10.5.1, which includes its belated iTunes Match service. iTunes Match scans a user's library to form a comprehensive list of the user's songs, including music that was not purchased from the Apple iTunes store. If it finds a match in iTunes, Apple then provides the with a cloud-based version of the same song from iTunes.
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