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Googleâs Chrome Browser Overtakes Internet Explorer For The First Time
InternetNewsSoftware Reviews May 6, 2016
Google Chrome has officially overtaken Internet Explorer to become the worldâs most used web browser. The news finally ends Microsoftâs default Windows browserâs almost two-decade long dominance as the leading internet browser. Havenât I heard this one before? Probably. Over the last few years, quite a few tech analytics... Read more
From last week, Microsoft has ended what many people consider the easiest way to search the internet; by blocking third party searches that go through Bing and the Cortana digital personal assistant. The move was announced late last week in a blog post by the General Manager of Search... Read more
Well it had to happen eventually. But last week Google officially announced that support for its Chrome browser on older (legacy) operating systems has finally happened. The news came the day after Google rolled out the latest version of the browser, Chrome 50, with the following blog post: âToday,... Read more
April Foolâs day jokes for the worldâs most popular web browser Chrome, seemed to go horribly, horribly wrong. Yes, thatâs right, this year Googleâs efforts on April 1st ended up backfiring on the tech company in something of a spectacular fashion, and as Google had to admit in a... Read more
Microsoft To Go To The Edge To Offer Adblocking In Its Web Browser
InternetNewsSoftware Reviews April 2, 2016
Tech giant set to add to ad-publishers headaches as eagle eyed Zdnet journalist, Ed Cotton, spots Microsoftâs new feature for its Edge web browser. Thatâs right, adblocking may be coming to Redmondâs flagship browser in the next scheduled release for its Internet Explorer replacement. If it happens, Microsoft will... Read more
A group of Chinese tech companies has made a highly lucrative offer for mobile web browser Opera. A group of Chinese tech powerhouses led by Golden Brick Silk Road has made an astounding offer to buy Oslo-based Opera Software ASA’s top-selling product, the Opera web browser, for a little... Read more
Google has said it will now hide more content that has been removed from its âright to be forgotten.â The new decision will apply to all versions of the tech giants search engine results when viewed from countries that have approved the removal. Previously, the âright to be forgotten,â... Read more
Despite decades of widespread existence (and even more years of basically military-only use before that), the internet is still a veritable Wild West playground. The unfortunate fact is that a lot of the issues that come up for users stem from a segment of the online population who doesn’t... Read more
Firefox 44 Gets Official Release And Some New Features
InternetNewsSoftware Reviews January 29, 2016
The latest version of Firefox has been officially released, and users should be prepared some new features. According to the changelog Mozilla released for Firefox version 44 everyoneâs favorite fox based web browser now has Web Push notifications. Â This latest added trick should save users on battery power, and... Read more
Forget the saga of accidentally leaking your webcam to the internet, or that one school where the students’ laptops had a low-jack feature that let the administration spy on them in their bedrooms. Those incidents are mere child’s play compared to the privacy breach that many IoT users are... Read more
Court transcripts leaked to the web last week have revealed that Google allegedly paid Apple $1 billion to become the default search engine of choice for the mobile version of Appleâs Safari browser. The figure relates to the amount of money Google handed over in 2014 to gain the... Read more
Ad blocking software usage in the US grew by 48% last year alone. Advertising is an everyday fact of life on the internet, but more and more users are using ad blocking software to evade seeing them at all. From the perspective of a web publisher, you can probably... Read more
Redmond tech giant, Microsoft has finally decided to kill off its older versions of Internet Explorer. Support for IE 8,9, and 10 will officially end on January 12th. âCustomers have until January 12, 2016, to upgrade their browser, after which time the previous versions of Internet Explorer will reach... Read more
The free Chrome browser extension, âWeb TuneUpâ made and installed by Netherlands based AVG Antivirus has been unveiled as potentially security threat. Over 9 million AVG users were exposed to the bug. The recently discovered vulnerability may have allowed the personal data and browsing history of its users to be... Read more
Google has released its annual Year In Search. Well, its either been a good year or a bad year depending on how 2015 went for you. For me it was pretty good all in. It was my first full year of being self employed as a fulltime freelancing digital... Read more
The Worldâs first ever website turned 25 years old this week. Just in case youâre interested as well, I feel I should point out that this makes it the oldest web page in history. In internet terms of time that makes it almost as old as the dinosaurs, but... Read more
WP Engine, the WordPress managed hosting solution setup by WordPress itself to help WordPress users, has had its security breached in a cyber-attack that has exposed customer credentials. WP Engine became aware of the breach on the 9th December, and quickly moved to contact all of its customers directly,... Read more
The Mozilla Foundation, the not-for-profit company behind popular web browser Firefox has revealed that itâs doing just fine without Googleâs millions. For the longest of times, it often appeared that Mozillaâs fortunes relied on the charitable mood of Google to remain viable. Google were in real terms, practically bankrolling... Read more