Google to begin offering encrypted search

May 19th, 2010 zdnet.co.uk No comments

Google plans to offer encrypted search next week, it announced on Friday after disclosing it collected samples of British households’ web surfing and email data without their knowledge through Street View.

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UK users pay a premium for Adobe CS5

May 3rd, 2010 zdnet.co.uk Comments off

British buyers will have to pay a premium over US prices for Creative Suite 5, the update to Adobe’s popular content creation software that was unveiled on Monday.

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Infosecurity Europe: ICO speaks on future of regulation three weeks after its ?500,000 fines were introduced

May 3rd, 2010 scmagazine.com No comments

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said that it is waiting with ‘baited breath’ for the first of its ?500,000 fines to be handed out.

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Steve Jobs hits back at Adobe over claims that Apple is a closed system

May 3rd, 2010 scmagazine.com No comments

Steve Jobs has hit out at recent claims by Adobe, saying it should focus on HTML development and less on criticising Apple.

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Windows needs a built-in PDF viewer, argues researcher

Computerworld – Microsoft should add a basic PDF viewer to Windows to help protect users from the spike in attacks exploiting bugs in Adobe’s Reader, a security researcher said Friday.

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Novell, Red Hat prevail in user-interface patent case

IDG News Service – A federal jury found that Novell and Red Hat were innocent of infringing on user interface patents held by IP Innovation LLC.

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Google to drop IE6 support in cloud apps

February 1st, 2010 zdnet.co.uk Comments off

Search and advertising giant Google is phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in its cloud services, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites, from 1 March.

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Google aims to speed up DNS requests

February 1st, 2010 zdnet.co.uk No comments

Google and Neustar UltraDNS have proposed a extension to try to build some geographic awareness into the Domain Name System.

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4G handset to be demonstrated this month

February 1st, 2010 zdnet.co.uk No comments

NTT DoCoMo is to demonstrate a prototype handset based on the high-speed wireless data technology LTE later this month, according to the Japanese mobile operator’s handset partner, NEC.

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40,000 More Extensions!

February 1st, 2010 computerworld.com No comments

One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions launch is a feature that is near and dear to my heart: Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension I wrote in 2004 that allows developers to customize web pages using simple JavaScript and it was the inspiration for some important parts of our extension system.

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