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Google Answers Analyst Questions
News Asked if Google would consider developing its own browser, as has been speculated for some time, chief executive Eric Schmidt said, "We would only do so.if we thought there was a real user benefit. Google executives said they have no plans to build...
[June 1, 2006, 9:10]
Google Tightens Up Search Privacy
News Google's servers log information every time someone conducts a web search, keeping data such as the keywords used, the internet protocol address or unique number assigned to that person's computer, and information from web cookies, which are small...
[March 15, 2007, 7:55]
Google Warns Of Drive-by Downloads
News Drive-by downloads, in which malicious websites exploit browser vulnerabilities to execute malicious code, have increased since April 2007, warned Google researchers last week. The malicious sites target web-browser vulnerabilities to automatically...
[February 19, 2008, 13:58]
Browser Toolbar Wars Get Underway
News However, just about every PC user who's connected to the Internet uses the browser at least once a day, and browser toolbars that contain useful utilities such as Google's search engine will grab a user's attention, he said.
[February 8, 2006, 10:05]
EU Privacy Group: Google Cookie Life Still Too Long
News The cookie will be renewed each time a user visits Google, according to a blog post by Google privacy counsel Peter Fleischer. Therefore I recommend [users] configure the browser [in a] way that all cookies are deleted upon closure of [a] session.
[July 20, 2007, 15:58]
Gnome Linux Desktop Updated
News The Gnome project has released the first test version of Gnome 2.22 this week, including a new web-browser engine, a new virtual file system and updates for virtual network computing and accessibility.
[January 31, 2008, 17:11]
Opera Updates Its Mobile Browser
News Opera has released the latest version of its free mobile web browser. Opera Mini 4, which was made available on Wednesday, supports synchronisation with the company's desktop-based browser product. Opera Mini 4 is also the first version of the...
[November 7, 2007, 11:03]
Why Google Need Not Fear Microsoft
Talkback If you learn to use a web browser, you know how to download, and if you know a browser, you know what you don't like about it. Of course, you assume that users care, or understand that Microsoft search is different from Google search.
[February 11, 2004, 12:12]
Firefox 'not Being Aggressive Enough'
News Mozilla should be pushing the Firefox browser even more aggressively into the enterprise market, a senior analyst has told ZDNet UK. Real Networks is thought to distribute more than 2 million pieces of multimedia software a day, making the deal yet...
[August 3, 2006, 11:50]
Google 'powerless' To Stop AdSense Theft
News Google yesterday said its policy is to remove sites that redirect users to malicious pages, but this approach will not prevent the Trojan from damaging its revenue since it sits on the user's PC and causes the browser to bypass the AdSense network...
[December 20, 2007, 7:32]
Browser-based OpenOffice.org Released
News In its browser-based version, OpenOffice.org now offers online collaboration and can be used without needing to be downloaded to and installed on a client PC. If you're wondering how OpenOffice.org compares to your current office software, this is...
[December 18, 2007, 11:30]
Opera Mini Racks Up One Billion Page Views
News Opera collated the information on browsing habits through its Opera Mini server, which pre-processes all browser queries before the information is sent to the user. Opera's Web browser for mobile devices, Opera Mini, has been used to view over one...
[August 8, 2006, 17:30]
Regulators: Vista Search Is Fair
News How users gets their browser - whether on a new PC, as part of a Windows upgrade or downloaded from the Internet - helps determine which search engine is used in that program. A public test version of the browser is already available from Microsoft...
[May 15, 2006, 8:50]
Google Takes Aim At A Mobile Future
News The service is free in the US and works with any phone that contains an XHTML-capable web browser. This summer it launched a downloadable Java application for Google Maps, enabling mobile phone users to get information about local restaurants and...
[November 29, 2006, 8:50]
A Goal-Oriented Web Browser
White Papers The result is a Web browser that is able to generate personalized semantic hypertext, providing a goal oriented browsing experience. Many users are familiar with the interesting but limited functionality of Data Detector interfaces like Microsoft's...
[February 1, 2007, 23:00]
Tube Explorer
Downloads With the built-in pagination video browser, you can quickly and efficiently browsing videos from different web sites that Tube Explorer supported. Video, or Google Video. The user interface is designed for quick access to tools, and there are many...
[May 11, 2008, 20:46]
Google Buys Web Security Firm GreenBorder
News Google has bought a web security firm which claims to offer safer surfing by flushing away each session when the browser is shut down. He also said that Google should be able to develop the technology in such a way that it could remember user...
[May 30, 2007, 12:44]
New Tools For Google Desktop
News The new Google Desktop lets people use mini-applications from within its Sidebar without having to download software or open a browser, said Marissa Mayer, vice-president of search products and user experience.
[May 11, 2006, 9:05]
Google Web Accelerator Sparks Privacy Fears
News On a Google Labs discussion group, one user said that the security implications of Google caching details of Internet sessions were unacceptable. Google was not immediately available for comment, but said in a Web site statement that the service...
[May 5, 2005, 17:45]
Google Toolbar Exposes PCs To Attack
News The toolbar only allows changes to take place if the document being viewed in the browser is in the google.com domain, or is viewing any location using a special "resource" protocol, meant for accessing system resources on the local computer.
[August 9, 2002, 11:26]
