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Software detects when kids are being groomed on the net

Posted June 1, 2010 - 09:08 by Emma Woollacott

Four out of five children can't tell when an adult is posing as a child online, according to software developers working to track pedophiles online.

Mozilla details Firefox 4 specs

Posted May 11, 2010 - 12:10 by Trent Nouveau

Apparently speed does matter. And that is why Mozilla's next-gen Firefox browser will be taking on Google's blazingly fast Chrome with a "super-duper" JägerMonkey JavaScript engine.

iPad apps beautiful but unusable, says report

Posted May 11, 2010 - 07:34 by Staff writer

The first generation of iPad apps has some pretty serious usability problems, according to a report from the Norman Nielsen Group.

Apple's Gianduia is not a Flash killer

Posted May 10, 2010 - 14:34 by Aharon Etengoff

No, Apple's nascent Gianduia platform will not kill Flash for the masses. That is what HTML5 is for - at least according to Steve Jobs.

Real world translation arrives on Google’s Goggles

Posted May 6, 2010 - 13:44 by Trent Nouveau

Google has updated its sophisticated text translation software for Android-based smartphones.

ARM says Flash to blame for smartbook delay

Posted May 6, 2010 - 12:09 by Aharon Etengoff

An ARM spokesperson has blamed Flash and the abrupt emergence of tablets for the lack of smartbooks in the mobile marketplace.

iPhone becomes contactless payment system

Posted May 6, 2010 - 04:32 by Emma Woollacott

iPhone users will soon be able to pay for things simply by waving their phone in the air - something most of them are happy enough to do anyway.

Adobe criticizes Apple's notoriously closed ecosystem

Posted May 5, 2010 - 15:25 by Aharon Etengoff

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch has accused Apple of creating and enforcing a closed ecosystem during his keynote speech at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.

Google upgrades search engine with refined UI

Posted May 5, 2010 - 12:50 by Trent Nouveau

Google has upgraded its popular search engine with a refined user interface (UI) that allows users to fully experience the "increasing richness" of the web.

Skype promises one-cent-a-minute international calls to landlines

Posted May 5, 2010 - 09:50 by Emma Woollacott

Skype has launched new monthly plans for international calls to landlines and cellphones, and is expected this week to launch a video chat feature.

Microsoft launches Spindex social media aggregator

Posted May 5, 2010 - 06:03 by Emma Woollacott

Microsoft has created a new tool, Spindex, that aims to manage and aggregate social media information.

Google shifts Chrome into overdrive with upgraded V8 engine

Posted May 4, 2010 - 20:05 by Aharon Etengoff

Google has shifted its Chrome browser into overdrive with an upgraded V8 Javascript engine that offers a respective performance increase of 30-35% on the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks.

Ford evaluates in-car cloud computing apps

Posted May 4, 2010 - 09:16 by Staff writer

Students at the University of Michigan, with the help of Ford, have created a series of applications designed to be used in a car.

Twitter launches embeddable tweets

Posted May 4, 2010 - 06:41 by Emma Woollacott

Twitter will today launch a new feature allowing tweets to be embedded within documents.

Chrome’s gain is Microsoft’s loss

Posted May 3, 2010 - 12:34 by Aharon Etengoff

Google’s Chrome increased its browser market share by 0.6 percentage points in April to 6.7%, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer fell 0.7 points to 59.95%.

IP shortage leads to increased Black Market demand

Posted May 3, 2010 - 12:11 by Trent Nouveau

A severe shortage of IPv4 addresses has reportedly "raised the specter" of companies eventually being forced to obtain an address from the nascent IPv4 black market.

Google pockets 3D desktop developer

Posted May 3, 2010 - 01:42 by Mike Luttrell

"More than three years ago, we set out to completely change the way people use their desktops." That's the mission statement from a start-up company that received the ultimate dream: a buyout from Google.