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News With Google recently joining the operating system party with its own offering, Chrome, silicon.com's Naked CIO was prompted last month to wonder whether we really need another OS to worry about. While August may... [01 Sep 2009]
Windows, Linux and Mac can now tune into Opera 10
News Other enhancements include an expanded Speed Dial (a feature that has later been adopted and adapted in Google's Chrome browser) that shows more commonly visited web pages than in previous Opera browsers. [01 Sep 2009]
Google Chrome getting on better with Apple's Snow Leopard
News Google released an update for Chrome to fix compatibility problems with Snow Leopard on Monday, which along with other fixes shows the gradually maturing state of the Mac OS X version of the browser.... [01 Sep 2009]
Apple's Mac OS 'lagging behind Vista on security'
News He offered up a wishlist for Snow Leopard that included: "real" ASLR; "full use of hardware-enforced Non-eXecutable memory (NX)"; default 64-bit native execution for security-sensitive processes; sandbox policies for Safari, Mail.app,... [27 Aug 2009]
Google plugs two critical Chrome vulnerabilities
News Google has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities in the stable version of its Chrome browser that could have let an attacker remotely take over a person's computer. With one attack on Google's V8 JavaScript engine,... [26 Aug 2009]
Google Chrome for Linux, arriving soon in 64 bits
News Google has begun work on a 64-bit version of Chrome for Linux, a move likely to whip Linux loyalists into a lather of excitement. Chrome engineer Dean McNamee said in a mailing list message Thursday:... [21 Aug 2009]
Firefox 3.5, show it some love says Mozilla
News Google's newer Chrome browser, by contrast, automatically updates itself to the newest version with no user intervention, though IT administrators can throttle the behaviour. A month and a half after Mozilla issued a... [17 Aug 2009]
Apple hunts for replacement for Google CEO Schmidt
News Both are players in the mobile phone market (Google's Android operating system competes with Apple's iPhone) and soon will compete in desktop operating systems, when Google releases its Chrome OS. On Tuesday, Apple's... [14 Aug 2009]
Businesses' XP addiction is keeping Microsoft from killing IE 6
News In large part, the shifting nature of the browser is what led Google to develop its Chrome browser, and now its Chrome OS, which posits that most computing tasks these days can be done from within the... [14 Aug 2009]
Google's Chrome beta niceties show the seriousness of browser battle ahead
News The features that appeared in Google Chrome's developer version have arrived on the browser's beta - but it's the non-cosmetic changes that will perhaps interest users most. Individually, the new features in... [06 Aug 2009]
Google's Android coming to a set-top box near you
News Work is also underway to release low-cost Android subnotebooks later this year, although Google is also planning a separate operating system, Chrome OS, for this market. The Android operating system is a step closer to... [06 Aug 2009]
Google gives Chrome a shine with the launch of 29 themes
News Google on Tuesday launched a gallery of 29 themes for Google Chrome. Many had been pestering Google to add themes support even though Chrome employs a Spartan user interface without much acreage for... [05 Aug 2009]
Apple loses Google boss as Schmidt steps down from board
News Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple's core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric's effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from... [04 Aug 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News Renai LeMay debates the Chrome vs Ubuntu question here. Ubuntu vs Chrome was not the only epic battle being waged in July: silicon.com's futurist columnist Peter Cochrane may know more about wireless... [03 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: Why Google's OS is dead in the water
Comment While not a lot is known about the nature of the Chrome OS - it could very well just be a new form of Linux - I have given some thought to its practicality as a standalone OS in a corporate setting. Do CIOs want or need... [03 Aug 2009]
