May 18, 2012

Google Gets Rid of Six More Products, Even More Wood Behind Even Fewer Arrows

Google is not done with the spring, summer, fall and winter cleaning. It just announced that several other tools and services will be shut down, open-sourced or merged into other existing products. Several products that it acquired are getting the axe,

See the rest here:
Google Gets Rid of Six More Products, Even More Wood Behind Even Fewer Arrows

Firefox Beta Tests Add-on Hotfix Feature

Starting with Firefox 10, Mozilla will start delivering hotfixes for its web browser, via an add-on, in order to have fewer full updates pushed to users. Firefox beta users are the first testers of the feature, as Mozilla pushes today an automatically

Follow this link:
Firefox Beta Tests Add-on Hotfix Feature

Wall Street slips on GE and Google

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq edged lower on Friday after GE and Google results fell short of expectations, while investors awaited a resolution in the latest round of Greek debt talks. The Dow advanced, lifted by IBM, which offered a strong outlook late

Read more:
Wall Street slips on GE and Google

Hands on: building an HTML5 photo booth with Chrome’s new webcam API

Experimental support for WebRTC has landed in the Chrome developer channel . The feature is available for testing when users launch the browser with the –enable-media-stream flag. We did some hands-on testing and used some of the new JavaScript APIs to

More here:
Hands on: building an HTML5 photo booth with Chrome’s new webcam API

Imperva Warns of XSS Vulnerability in IE

Microsoft says the problem is not considered a vulnerability. Share Imperva researchers are warning of a problem with the way double quotes are encoded by Internet Explorer that can allow hackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks

Originally posted here:
Imperva Warns of XSS Vulnerability in IE

Anti-SOPA Blackout Day: Google Censors Homepage in Protest

Several big websites and web companies have banded together to protest SOPA and PIPA, the two anti-piracy bills that threaten to do a lot more bad than good. Google has been a strong critic of SOPA, one of the few really big web companies that is doing

Link:
Anti-SOPA Blackout Day: Google Censors Homepage in Protest

Here’s What Google, Craigslist, And Other Websites Are Doing To Protest SOPA

Hard to ignore.

Original post:
Here’s What Google, Craigslist, And Other Websites Are Doing To Protest SOPA

Google Is Still the Fourth Most Valuable Brand in the World

Google has been deemed the fourth most valuable brand in the world, by Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2011 report, the same position it held last year. That’s said, its perceived brand value grew by 27 percent in the last year, just not enough to

See the original post:
Google Is Still the Fourth Most Valuable Brand in the World

User Data Privacy Is a Top Concern as Mozilla Branches Out Beyond Firefox

Mozilla has always been more than Firefox, but the organization is about to spread out even more this year. Mozilla is working on several things that should make the web better for users, but they are not strictly related to Firefox. What’s more, they

See original here:
User Data Privacy Is a Top Concern as Mozilla Branches Out Beyond Firefox

Cut the Rope Now Fully Playable in HTML5-Capable Web Browsers

Zepto Labs, the developer behind the massive successful Cut the Rope for the iOS, has just released a version of the game that’s fully playable through a web browser like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox. Cut the Rope has

Excerpt from:
Cut the Rope Now Fully Playable in HTML5-Capable Web Browsers