Google Chrome OS

Releasing the Chromium OS open source project

11/19/2009   |    In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web.

Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions. The Chromium OS project includes our current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development. This is the initial sketch and we will color it in over the course of the next year.

Beware of Phishing with Tweeter!

Gone Phishing  | Saturday, January 03, 2009  |     Twitter Blog

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If you receive a direct message or a direct message email notification that redirects to what looks like Twitter.com—don't sign in. Look closely at the URL because it could be a scam.

What Is Phishing?

TweetDeck v0.33.

Twitter appears to have become quite the developer's plaything. The number of Twitter related apps keeps rising despite Twitter's dubious appeal. One of the latest in the Twitter production line is called TweetDeck. TweetDeck is a new desktop client for Twitter that's similar to other desktop clients like Twhirl and Twitterific. However, TweetDeck claims to be different. 

Google Buzz

Google Buzz just made the social media segment hotter by integrating social communication in Gmail and mobile phones. Google Buzz is the new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting and share updates, photos, videos and you don’t need to find new friends as you’re automatically following the people you email and chat with the most.

FamilyLink - the family social experience

FamilyLink, a top provider of the family social experience with more than 60 million users, has built the leading way for families to connect. Family members can upload photos, share memories and stories, build family trees, and find new relatives and ancestors.

China-Google: Search engine censorship row.

February 02, 2010 | CHINA-GOOGLE: China may be a massive potential market for search engine companies, but Google may pull out of the country, in a row over censorship. Google has cried foul following hacking attacks on the email accounts of several Chinese dissidents, which the company says originated in China. Google has since said that it will no longer comply with Chinese government censorship regulations, risking its future in the country but winning the admiration of many of China's internet users or so-called "netizens".

Opening wallets to read newspapers online?

For years, web users have enjoyed the luxury of free access to the world's newspaper sites. However, these happy times might be coming to an end for readers of the New York Times.

What is the Difference Between a Facebook Fan Page and a Facebook Group?

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites online and offers varied options for promoting yourself, your site, your business or your client.

Two of the best ways to go about marketing yourself through Facebook besides your main profile are Facebook Groups and Facebook Fan Pages. While both are similar in concept, there are some key differences to keep in mind when you’re setting them up.

Google Is Now Apple’s Greatest Enemy:

Let’s take a trip back in time. The year is 1994, and two tech giants are going to war over copyright. They are Microsoft and Apple, and they are fighting over a copyright claim by Apple over Microsoft and HP’s use of graphical user interface elements from the Macintosh OS. The resulting court case, Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, ended with a ruling in Microsoft’s favor, mostly due to a contractual license agreement between the two.

Twitter 101

New to Twitter? This overview will help you get the most out of Twitter and ExecTweets.

Getting to know Twitter

What is it? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages.   People write short updates, often called “tweets”  of 140 characters or fewer.   These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.

Google pulling out of China?

As the business world reacts to Google's threat to quit China, analyst Matthew Gertken discusses Beijing's fundamental interests in protecting information and possible outcomes of the case.

15 sites that went kaput in 2009 (images)

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2009 saw the launch of many new and genuinely useful Web services, as ?well as continued advances from sites that weathered the economic ?fallout from the year prior. But not all was sunshine and daisies. Sites, large and small, closed up shop this year.

New internet piracy law comes into effect in France

The first effects of France's new law against internet piracy will begin to be felt as the new year begins.

The law was passed after a long struggle in parliament, and in the teeth of bitter opposition from groups opposed to internet restrictions. 

Illegal downloaders will be sent a warning e-mail, then a letter if they continue, and finally must appear before a judge if they offend again. 

Software Piracy in Asia Expands

Despite some gains in fighting copyright infringement in many countries, brazen piracy remains visible in Asia. Producer Pros Laput visits Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Hong Kong in this report brought to us by Heda Bayron.

Mozilla issued a fifth beta of Firefox 3.6

Mozilla on Thursday issued a fifth beta of Firefox 3.6 rather than move on to a release candidate, a decision that will push the final code ship date into early 2010. Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 was released as an update to current testers early Thursday, and can also be installed by others who download it from Mozilla's site.

Malaysians - Beware Of Phishing Website

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22  09  |  Bernama

 

-- Members of the public are reminded to beware of phishing or fake websites used to conduct 'phishing attack' by masquerading as trustworthy entities such as familiar banking websites.

The reminder came from CyberSecurity Malaysia which revealed that the number of phishing attempts is on the rise and accelerating.

Google, Bing deals make Twitter profitable

khaleejtimes | 22 December 2009,

Twitter has reached profitability after signing deals with Google and Microsoft to make the micro-blogging service searchable on the Internet, BusinessWeek magazine reported on Monday.

BusinessWeek, which was purchased in October by financial news agency Bloomberg, said Twitter had signed a 15-million-dollar data-mining deal with Google and a 10-million-dollar agreement with Microsoft.

“The deals were huge,” Bloomberg BusinessWeek quoted an unidentified person “familiar with the company’s finances” as saying. “With two scoops of the pen, a lot of revenue came in.”