A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome Web browser, researchers at Awake Security said.
Google is upending the advertising world with its decision to “render obsolete” a key tool used by marketers for years to track would-be customers as they move around the Web.
Few homegrown Google products have been as successful as Chrome. Now rivals are warning that the Web browser has become too powerful and that Google is abusing that dominance.
Google Chrome users need to update the desktop version of their Web browser as soon as possible, its lead security engineer has warned.
After more than 20 years making the Web a slightly more interesting and interactive place, albeit one that pandered to designers’ worst excesses and (in pre-broadband days) led to interminable download waiting times, the word on the Internet is that “Adobe
If you’re running the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, also known as Android 4.0, on your smartphone or tablet, you can run along right now and download Chrome for Android. The latest addition to the Chrome family is a mobile beta that brings a (purportedly) better and faster
It’s one of the most important pieces of technology in the modern world, a secure gateway to all the wonders and conveniences of the Internet. It’s a tool used every day by billions of people for everything from banking to learning to
Microsoft believes that the latest version of Internet Explorer will enable it to recapture market share it has lost to Mozilla’s Firefox browser and Google Chrome in recent years. The beta version of Internet Explorer 9 launched yesterday.
For a number of years now, Mozilla’s Firefox has been a popular and growing alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. It’s estimated that the open-source browser is used by a quarter of all Web users. But its star could be fading.
Norway’s Opera Software estimates that it has as about 1,5m active users of its Web browser software for mobile phones in SA. Opera, which develops browsers…