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Google buffs Chrome privacy in new beta

Google has improved privacy features and introduced automated translation of foreign-language web pages in a new version of its Chrome 4.1 beta browser for Windows. Read more »

Elements of Firefox overhaul arrive for testing

Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox. Read more »

New Opera 10.50 beta aims to surpass Chrome

The Opera Browser made some serious headway in keeping itself relevant when it introduced a new JavaScript engine for its upcoming revision. Read more »

Google grinds Gears to a halt

Google has announced the impending death of Gears, its software for using web applications offline. Read more »

Chrome gets fixed; researcher gets paid

The stable version of Google Chrome for Windows has been updated with three critical security fixes and an announcement that the first payouts to crowd-sourced security researchers have been delivered. Read more »

Greasemonkey comes to Chrome

Greasemonkey scripts are an easy way to create single-serving enhancements for Firefox, and now they work natively on Google Chrome, too. Read more »

Tide turns against IE6 as usage drops

Firefox usage remained level and Google's Chrome continued to pull ahead of Apple's Safari, but the most notable change in January's browser usage statistics is that the reviled Internet Explorer 6 no longer is the most common. Read more »

Chrome 5 debuts more settings options

Google updated its Chrome browser's developer's builds to version 5 for Windows and Mac today, the first time any version of Chrome has reached that milestone. Read more »

Internet blackout 'only the first step'

The Great Australian Blackout is in full swing this week, with over 180,000 unique visitors to the site, 150,000 of which just in the last three days. But the organisers of the campaign are already looking to new protests. Read more »

Mozilla forges ahead with Firefox 3.6

Mozilla debuted Firefox 3.6 on Thursday, introducing significant under-the-hood changes that make it faster, help it render content better and a few visual tweaks, as well. Read more »

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A look at ColdFusion 9's new features

This article looks at some of the best features in ColdFusion 9 and discusses why the application server is still compelling. Read more »

How using an XSL/C# hybrid may prevent an accounting snafu

Check out this hybrid of XSL and C# that Edmond Woychowsky used to resolve a floating point error in Microsoft's implementation of the XPath sum() function. Read more »

Why Java and .NET will continue to compete

In this reader Q&A, the author talks about the future of Java, the cost to develop in Java compared to .NET and whether Java will displace .NET. Read more »

10 Firefox extensions that enhance security

Compromising websites has become the cybercriminals' favourite method of getting malware installed on computers. Here are 10 ways to beef-up Firefox that will make it more difficult for the bad guys. Read more »

Yahoo updates YUI tool for slick web interfaces

Yahoo on Tuesday released version 3 of its Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library, a software collection programmers can use to endow websites with fancy user interface elements written in JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets. Read more »

Paranoid cookie management

How much paranoia you employ in web cookie management determines how much work you must put in, and which strategies you'll use. Read more »

FluidHTML seeks to bridge web programming divide

Today's web programmers face a big choice when it comes to fancier aspects of their sites: HTML or Flash? One start-up hopes it can bridge the gap with a technology called FluidHTML. Read more »

Making the case for dynamic languages

This article presents reasons why developers should consider using dynamic languages. We also discuss how these languages trip up some developers. Read more »

Unmask your passwords with this JavaScript trick

If you think you mistyped a password into a password field in your browser, a simple JavaScript trick can help you find out by unmasking the password. Read more »

An epitaph for the Web standard, XHTML 2

XHTML 2, a technology intended to build a more powerful Web from the ground up, met a quiet end last week, spotlighting the difficulties of standardisation in a fast-moving Internet. Introduced in 2002, XHTML 2 was a centerpiece of standards work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Read more »

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Ben Forta: All about Adobe

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Google's chief sits down for an extremely rare, wide-ranging interview and discusses Google's two operating systems, government scrutiny, and, of course, evil. Read more »

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Fix Ethernet driver problems in virtualised Windows 7

How to get the Internet working in Windows 7 running on VMWare. Read more »

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Apple MacBook Fall 2009

Apple has revamped its best-selling laptop, the 13-inch MacBook, with a unibody white polycarbonate body and LED backlit display. Read more »

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Windows 7 launches in NYC

Natali Del Conte reports from New York, where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces the launch of Windows 7, showing several new features along with a slew of new products that will run the OS. Read more »

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Apple rains on Windows 7 parade

Apple announces new Macs to try to steal Microsoft's thunder, the Nook makes the Kindle look downright bookish, and is the new Droid a Transformer? It's all in Buzz. Read more »

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Apple Magic Mouse

Along with a redesign of the iMac, MacBook, and Mac Mini, Apple today also unveiled its new Magic Mouse with multi-touch. Read more »

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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder

On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition. Read more »

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The state of ECMAScript

Javascript guru, Douglas Crockford, explains how ECMAScript got into the mess that it is in and who the players are. Read more »

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Windows maths and Browser Goodies -- Club Builder

Windows 7 will be code-versioned as Windows 7.0, won't it? On this week's Club Builder we see that it isn't so, as well as get Steve Ballmer thoughts on Vista deployment; plus we see some new HTML5 tricks. Read more »

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Microsoft showcases new NUIs

[blogs:syslog] -- TechFest, Microsoft's internal even took place this week with researchers showcasing some new interfaces the company is working on. Read more »

Google to dump Gears

[blogs:syslog] -- Google is about to pull the plug on its Gears project, while Mozilla plans to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support in future versions of Firefox. Read more »

Firefox 3.6 released

[blogs:syslog] -- Firefox 3.6 is finally here! More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

Chrome OS source code unveiled

[blogs:syslog] -- Google has open sourced the code of its web-based Chrome operating system. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

Google releases new JavaScript tools

[blogs:syslog] -- Google has open-sourced a new JavaScript toolkit and also released the Google Dashboard. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

Apple can give but can't take

[blogs:syslog] -- Apple has complained about Microsoft's laptop ads, a hacker has defaced the RAAF website and Firefox 3.5 users could fall victim to drive-by attacks. Read more »

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Is Google asking for antitrust?

[blogs:betaliving] -- Google has announced a new Chrome Operating System, designed for the web and with a browser baked directly into it — so much so that the entire OS is named after it. But the search giant should watch out: this decision seems designed to attract antitrust attention. Read more »

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Google launches Apps Marketplace

Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

-- posted by Staff
Microsoft showcases new NUIs

TechFest, Microsoft's internal even took place this week with researchers showcasing some new interfaces the company is working on. Read more »

-- posted by Staff
Google to dump Gears

Google is about to pull the plug on its Gears project, while Mozilla plans to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support in future versions of Firefox. Read more »

-- posted by Staff