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Apple, Google Diss the DoD Over Mobile Security

js — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:26:21 +0000

Julie188 writes “The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has long supported the use of BlackBerry smartphones for soldiers. It built a system called Go Mobile to provide secure communications, training, and collaboration applications to mobile soldiers. DISA recently decided to …

Google’s Chrome OS to Launch In Fall

js — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:11:38 +0000

Kidfork writes “On Wednesday Google’s vice president of product management said that this fall Google will launch Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft Windows. More than 70 million users already use the Chrome Browser, and Google expects at least 1 …

Using XSS & Google To Find Physical Location

js — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:11:02 +0000

wiredmikey sends along a brief (and quite poorly written) report from Security Week on Samy Kamkar’s talk at Black Hat last week. In the video, which is amusing, he demonstrates how to obtain location information (within 30 feet, in the …

Google Chrome Extension Steals Login Details

js — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:01:57 +0000

An anonymous reader sends word of a proof-of-concept Google Chrome browser extension that steals users’ login details. The developer, Andreas Grech, says that he is trying to raise awareness about security among end users, and therefore chose Chrome as a …

Google Goes On Offensive vs. JavaScript Attacks

js — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:44:29 +0000

alphadogg writes “Google’s e-mail security team has updated its Postini engine to stop a new type of JavaScript attack that helped fuel a rise in spam volume in recent months. Google says it has seen a surge in obfuscated JavaScript …

Google Launches Public DNS Service

js — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:16:37 +0000

Google has just launched its very own public Domain Name System resolver, with which the company hopes to speed up internet traffic. The search giant claims its DNS is more secure (through protection against cache poisoning attacks) and faster than …

Google Fixes Bugs in Chrome Frame Affecting IE 8

js — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:13:18 +0000

Google has fixed bugs in Google Chrome Frame, including one that Microsoft called out as a security problem. Link to the original site

Google Chrome 4: Yes, it’s fast, but is it usable?

js — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:25:50 +0000

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews If, as Google says, a Web browser is not so much an application but a platform upon which a new class of applications may be built, then that platform must provide support. It needs …

How Google Uses Linux

js — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:20:46 +0000

postfail writes ‘lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers on how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel …

Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS?

js — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:52:39 +0000

xchg passes along a WiseAndroid piece on the drop in value of Garmin and TomTom shares following Google’s announcement yesterday of Google Maps Navigation. “Shares of GPS device makers Garmin and TomTom plummeted… through a combination of their quarterly results …

X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions

js — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:50:44 +0000

An anonymous reader writes “In a curious contrast to conventional wisdom, there are reports of X11 Chromium being faster than Windows or Mac versions. In the thread titled ‘Why is Linux Chrome so fast?,’ a developer speculates that it is …

Google Chrome in a runaway lead for browser performance supremacy

js — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:38:41 +0000

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews If Apple’s Safari is going to make any kind of a challenge for best performing Windows-based Web browser moving into next year, it needs to be now. In Betanews’ most extensive testing to date, …

Google Releases Open Source JavaScript Tools

js — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:33:00 +0000

Dan Jones writes “Google has open sourced several of its key JavaScript application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications. According to Google, by enabling and allowing developers to use the …

The roots of all evil: Apple, Google, Intel, and Microsoft

js — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:40:50 +0000

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews Americans love a winner, and will not tolerate a loser. - General George S. Patton (as portrayed by George C. Scott) Throughout the information technology industry, there has been a certain pathology that somehow …

Google Barks Back At Microsoft Over Chrome Frame Security

js — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:31:04 +0000

CWmike writes “Google hit back at Microsoft on Friday, defending the security of its new Chrome Frame plug-in and claiming that the software actually makes Internet Explorer safer and more secure. ‘Accessing sites using Google Chrome Frame brings Google Chrome’s …

Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure

js — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:18:54 +0000

Mark writes “The release of Google Chrome Frame, a new open source plugin that injects Chrome’s renderer and JavaScript engine into Microsoft’s browser, earlier this week had many web developers happily dancing long through the night. Finally, someone had found …

Google Frame Benchmarks 9x Faster than IE8

js — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:17:37 +0000

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes “Early tests with Google’s Chrome Frame found IE8 runs 9.6 times faster than usual. The testers ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite.” The other question is what is the performance hit of using the frame plug-in instead of …