ComScore, Omniture join up to measure audiences
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Yahoo! News: Technology News - Sep 21, '09 1:15amAP - Two of the largest companies involved in tracking and analyzing Web traffic are joining forces to measure digital audiences more comprehensively.
EU gives details of Intel's sales tactics
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Yahoo! News: Technology News - Sep 21, '09 7:16amAP - The European Union on Monday published e-mail excerpts from computer makers and Intel Corp. to show that Intel pressured chip buyers into choosing Intel over rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Mozilla extends WebGL support to Minefield
The Register - Sep 21, '09 8:39am3D goggles await
Mozilla has added WebGL support to its the Firefox trunk.…
Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion
CNET News.com - Sep 21, '09 8:37amIn a move to expand its customer base, Dell will acquire IT services provider Perot Systems for $3.9 billion.
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx coming next year
Download Squad by Brad Linder - Sep 21, '09 9:30amFiled under: OS Updates, Linux, Canonical
The folks at Canonical are putting the final touches on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala which should be available next month. But in one of the first steps toward looking even further ahead, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced the alliterative codename for Ubuntu 10.04 which will be released in April: Lucid Lynx.Ubuntu comes out on a six month schedule, which means that you get a major update every April and October. Lucid Lynx will be a LTS or Long Time Service release, which means users and organizations that don't want to feel the need to upgrade every six months can install the operating system and expect 2 years of support from Canonical. The last LTS release was Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.
Ubuntu 10.04 will use the GNOME 2.0 desktop (the following version will move on to GNOME 3.0). There'll be a push for more cloud computing features. More details should emerge in the coming months.
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Twitter Now Makes Phone Calls
InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers - Sep 18, '09 11:02amDevelopers keep coming up with new ways to leverage the popular microblogging service.
Bing grabs 10 percent of search market
CNET News.com - Sep 16, '09 10:11amMicrosoft's new search tool breaks out of single digits, accounting for 10.7 percent of the market in August with 1.1 billion unique searches, Nielsen says.
Enterprise IT Face Mobile Device Dilemma
InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers - Sep 16, '09 10:26amMany employees use their personal smartphones for business, which compromises corporate security, according to new study.
'Government cloud' coming from Google next year
Infoworld News by admin - Sep 15, '09 3:56pmGoogle will offer cloud-computing services designed specifically for U.S. government agencies starting next year, the company announced Tuesday at NASA Ames Research Center.
The services will give government agencies a way to purchase services, such as Google Apps, by ensuring that they meet regulatory requirements, said Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management with Google enterprise.
Google Chrome after a year: Sporting a new stable release
The Official Google Blog by A Googler - Sep 15, '09 1:08pmAt Google Chrome's first birthday just two weeks ago, we looked forward to an action-packed year for the browser and the web. Thanks to a full year of great feedback from our users, we're kicking off our second year of Google Chrome with a brand new stable release. This release comes hot on the heels of 51 developer, 21 beta and 15 stable updates and 3,505 bugfixes in the past year.
For you, that means significant speed improvements for the browser as well as a fresh redesign of some of its most loved features. To walk through the top highlights in the spirit of a September of epic sporting tournaments, here's a play-by-play comparison of our brand new release against our previous releases.
A wicked serve, volley, and return: Fast, fast and fast
This new release of Google Chrome is faster than ever, as we continue to provide a modern browser that starts up quickly from your desktop, and is fast to load web pages and web applications.
Notably, we've improved by more than 150% in Javascript performance since our very first beta, and by more than 25% since the most recent stable release.
Your playbook for the web: The New Tab page
When you download and fire up this latest release of Google Chrome, you'll notice that the New Tab page sports a new look:
For you, that means significant speed improvements for the browser as well as a fresh redesign of some of its most loved features. To walk through the top highlights in the spirit of a September of epic sporting tournaments, here's a play-by-play comparison of our brand new release against our previous releases.
A wicked serve, volley, and return: Fast, fast and fast
This new release of Google Chrome is faster than ever, as we continue to provide a modern browser that starts up quickly from your desktop, and is fast to load web pages and web applications.
Notably, we've improved by more than 150% in Javascript performance since our very first beta, and by more than 25% since the most recent stable release.
Your playbook for the web: The New Tab page
When you download and fire up this latest release of Google Chrome, you'll notice that the New Tab page sports a new look:
The redesigned, new New Tab page
The old New Tab page, which we're now retiring
We've redesigned the New Tab page so that it's easy to use and easily customizable, following some rigorous testing on the most recent beta channel release. Now you can rearrange thumbnails of your most-visited websites by simply clicking and dragging your mouse. Additionally, you can pin thumbnails to a spot so they don't disappear even if your browsing habits change. This way, you can easily get to the websites you care about with just one click.
You can do even more to customize your New Tab page— for example, you can hide parts of the page you don't want to see, or even opt for a simple list view of all your most visited websites. In addition, we've added handy tips to the bottom of the New Tab page to help you get the most out of Google Chrome.
As we bid adieu to the old, New Tab page, let us know what you think about the redesigned New Tab page — we'd love to hear your feedback.
With just a few deft strokes: The Omnibox
We've also improved one of the most used and loved features of Google Chrome, the Omnibox. Because it's a search bar as well as the web address bar, the multi-talented Omnibox helps you get to the sites you're looking for with just a few keystrokes. With this release, we've optimized the presentation of the drop-down menu and added little icons to help you distinguish between suggested sites, searches, bookmarks, and sites from your browsing history.
Bringing the cutting edge to the field: HTML5 capabilities
We're very excited about HTML5 becoming standard in modern browsers, and continued to add HTML5 capabilities to this stable release. We're particularly excited about the <video> tag in HTML5, which makes embedding videos in a page as simple as embedding regular images. The <video> tag also allows video playback without a plug-in.
You can give the <video> tag a whirl in Google Chrome and also check out our 50th Chrome Experiment, which uses HTML5 <audio> and <canvas> tags. It's great to see the great innovations that come from the use of open standards, and we'll continue to bring the latest and greatest in web technologies quickly to users through Google Chrome.
And finally, a photo finish with style: Deck your browser with Themes
After testing out Themes for Google Chrome in the beta channel, we're finally releasing it in this stable release. Themes allow you to deck out your browser with colors, patterns and images. We'll be bringing more Themes for the browser soon, but in the meantime, you can change the theme of your browser by visiting the Themes Gallery.
If you haven't tried Google Chrome recently, we invite you to download and browse the web with this new stable release. Many of the improvements in this release were inspired by the responses from users, so we're all ears if you have any feedback. If you're already using Google Chrome, you'll be automatically updated to this new version soon, but if you're itching to try this right away, download the latest version at google.com/chrome.
Posted by Anthony Laforge, Program Manager, Google Chrome
You can do even more to customize your New Tab page— for example, you can hide parts of the page you don't want to see, or even opt for a simple list view of all your most visited websites. In addition, we've added handy tips to the bottom of the New Tab page to help you get the most out of Google Chrome.
As we bid adieu to the old, New Tab page, let us know what you think about the redesigned New Tab page — we'd love to hear your feedback.
With just a few deft strokes: The Omnibox
We've also improved one of the most used and loved features of Google Chrome, the Omnibox. Because it's a search bar as well as the web address bar, the multi-talented Omnibox helps you get to the sites you're looking for with just a few keystrokes. With this release, we've optimized the presentation of the drop-down menu and added little icons to help you distinguish between suggested sites, searches, bookmarks, and sites from your browsing history.
The new Omnibox drop-down menu
Bringing the cutting edge to the field: HTML5 capabilities
We're very excited about HTML5 becoming standard in modern browsers, and continued to add HTML5 capabilities to this stable release. We're particularly excited about the <video> tag in HTML5, which makes embedding videos in a page as simple as embedding regular images. The <video> tag also allows video playback without a plug-in.
You can give the <video> tag a whirl in Google Chrome and also check out our 50th Chrome Experiment, which uses HTML5 <audio> and <canvas> tags. It's great to see the great innovations that come from the use of open standards, and we'll continue to bring the latest and greatest in web technologies quickly to users through Google Chrome.
And finally, a photo finish with style: Deck your browser with Themes
After testing out Themes for Google Chrome in the beta channel, we're finally releasing it in this stable release. Themes allow you to deck out your browser with colors, patterns and images. We'll be bringing more Themes for the browser soon, but in the meantime, you can change the theme of your browser by visiting the Themes Gallery.
Theme preview: Star Gazing
If you haven't tried Google Chrome recently, we invite you to download and browse the web with this new stable release. Many of the improvements in this release were inspired by the responses from users, so we're all ears if you have any feedback. If you're already using Google Chrome, you'll be automatically updated to this new version soon, but if you're itching to try this right away, download the latest version at google.com/chrome.
Posted by Anthony Laforge, Program Manager, Google Chrome