Microsoft today said it would update Flash on Windows 8 "shortly," although it declined to set a timetable. "In light of Adobe's recently released security updates for its Flash Player, Microsoft is working closely with Adobe to release ...
Motorola Mobility has announced three new Droid Razr smartphones with 4G LTE capabilities and reiterated its commitment to the Android operating system as the company forges ahead with its smartphone strategy. The three new Droid Razrs ...
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Google has upgraded its Chrome browser for Android devices, boosting its security framework and patching several security bugs. The security holes that were fixed were all rated as “medium” for their severity, and Google paid ...
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The website for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) now tells visitors it will not honor their browsers' do-not-track requests as a form of protest against the technology pushed by privacy groups and parts of the ...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin today played the role of ringmaster in a modern-day circus for the second time at Google I/O as parachutists jumped from an airship to the roof of San Francisco's Moscone Center and bikers jumped and then ...
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Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
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IDG News Service-Google released a Chrome browser update with a video decoding enhancement that the company claims will help users save battery life. The feature,available for Chrome on Windows,cuts power consumption by executing video ...
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Network World-There has been much debate about the preferred wireless platform for application developers.Every platform has its own advantages and challenges,and there are key points developers need to keep in mind when choosing the most ...
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The most recent update for Mozilla's Firefox web browser has been taken offline one day after release because of a newly discovered security vulnerability. Mozilla has not indicated how many users could be vulnerable, but claims that ...
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Computerworld - Google today awarded $60,000 to a security researcher who cracked Chrome at the search firm's second "Pwnium" hacking contest. The researcher, a teenager who goes by the nickname "Pinkie Pie," was a returning winner: Last ...
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"The number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
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Microsoft is expected to comply with its obligation to offer browser choice in the European Union (EU). Microsoft admitted a failure to comply with anti-competition regulations in July 2012. Joaquin Almunia, vice-president of the ...
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The first smartphones to rely on Google's Chrome browser for Android will be Motorola Mobility's just-announced Droid Razr M, Droid Razr Maxx and Droid Razr HD, the company said Wednesday. The Droid Razr M, the only one of the trio that ...
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Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser for iOS devices that stamps out some bugs,including one that interfered with Yahoo Mail. This upgrade fixes"compatibility issues"with some websites,including Yahoo Mail,in the Chrome ...
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Google yesterday said it will pay up to$2 million for major vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser at a second Pwnium hacking contest this fall. Pwn2Own,a rival contest sponsored by Hewlett-Packard,will award as much as$200,000 in a ...
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