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  Google Chrome share suffers with tweak of browser use calculation

  A change in the way browser usage is calculated led to a decline in web browser market share for Google Chrome, which experienced its second market share slip this year after growing steadily throughout 2011.

  By Ann Bednarz | 02 March, 2012 06:44

  Tags: browser, chrome, firefox, Google, IE, net applications, opera, safari, software

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  The lowdown on Google's Safari tracking cookies

  A grad student has caught Google with its hand in the cookies jar.

  By Brad Reed | 18 February, 2012 07:37

  Tags: Apple, cookies, Google, Google Safari tracking cookies, safari, Safari tracking cookies, security, software

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  Amazon Cloud Player now works with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

  Amazon's Cloud Player music streaming service launched only with Android compatibility, but an update rolled out this weekend quietly introduced basic support for Apple's iOS. If you have an Amazon Cloud Drive account (5GB free, plus a free 20GB upgrade if you purchase an album via Amazon MP3), you can now stream music on iOS devices too.

  By Daniel Ionescu | 09 May, 2011 07:19

  Tags: amazon, Apple, applications, browsers, cloud, cloud computing, internet, iOS, music files, online stores, safari, software, storage

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  13 features that make each Web browser unique

  Many cynical users assume Web browsers do little more than dutifully render HTML. The content is the most important part, they say, so it makes little difference which browser you use.

  By Peter Wayner | 02 May, 2011 20:08

  Tags: applications, firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer (IE), opera, safari, software, web browsers

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  Hackers expose Safari's flaws in five seconds

  When it comes to browser security, Internet Explorer usually gets ridiculed and beaten up the most. And though Microsoft's IE8 was quickly unraveled at Pwn2Own, Apple's Safari 5 was hugely embarrassed by getting hacked in five seconds flat.

  By Brennon Slattery | 11 March, 2011 05:01

  Tags: Apple, applications, browsers, browser security, Google, hackers, Microsoft, mozilla, online security, safari, software

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  iOS 4.3 boosts first-gen iPad browser speed by 18 per cent

  With all eyes on the iPad 2 that becomes available tomorrow at 5 p.m. in each time zone, Apple has released its iOS 4.3 update for the first-gen iPad, iPhone 3G S, non-Verizon Wireless iPhone 4, and recent iPod Touch models. InfoWorld.com ran the Futuremark Peacekeeper browser tests on a first-gen iPad with iOS 4.2 and with iOS 4.3 to see if Apple's claims of a turbocharged JavaScript engine were justified.

  By Galen Gruman | 10 March, 2011 23:13

  Tags: Apple, applications, hardware systems, iOS, iPad, laptops, mobile technology, safari, software, tablet PCs, twitter, Verizon Wireless, web browsers

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  IE9 and Chrome 7 top early HTML5 tests

  The newly released sixth preview of Internet Explorer 9 best handles the forthcoming HTML5 standard, followed by Google's Chrome 7 Web browser, according to recent early tests by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

  By Katherine Noyes | 03 November, 2010 04:28

  Tags: Apple, applications, browsers, firefox, Google, html authoring, internet, Microsoft, mozilla, safari, software, World Wide Web Consortium

• Researcher finds Safari reveals personal information

  A feature in Apple's Safari browser designed to make it easier to fill out forms could by abused by hackers to harvest personal information, according to a security researcher.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 23 July, 2010 20:15

  Tags: Apple, applications, browsers, data breach, data protection, safari, security, software

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  Google's Chrome passes Safari in US browser share

  Google Chrome is now the third-most-popular browser in the U.S., behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, but ahead of Apple's Safari for the first time, according to a study by Web analytics company StatCounter.

  By Peter Sayer | 29 June, 2010 07:26

  Tags: Apple, applications, browsers, Google, Google Chrome, safari, software, web browsers

• Apple's Safari 5 takes speed prize on Mac, Windows

  Apple's new Safari 5 browser is the fastest browser on both Windows and Mac OS X, JavaScript benchmark tests show.

  By Gregg Keizer | 11 June, 2010 06:29

  Tags: safari, web browsers, WWDC 2010

• Apple launches Safari 5, patches record 48 bugs

  Apple on Monday shipped the latest version of its Safari browser, patching a record 48 vulnerabilities, including one that a pair of hackers exploited in March to win a $US15,000 prize.

  By Gregg Keizer | 09 June, 2010 21:07

  Tags: Apple, hackers, patches, safari

• Claim exposed: Apple Safari 5 not fastest

  Apple claimed at WWDC that its new Safari 5 browser is "fastest." Faster than Chrome; faster than Firefox; and definitely faster than IE. Naturally, this was a red rag to the proverbial male Bos primigenius, so smarty-pants everywhere had to go see for themselves. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers trust, but verify.

  By Richi Jennings | 10 June, 2010 04:13

  Tags: safari, web browsers, WWDC 2010

• Two years later, Apple still won't fix Safari hole

  Two years after fixing a security bug in the Windows version of its Safari browser, Apple apparently has decided that Mac users can go without a fix.

  By Robert McMillan | 25 May, 2010 10:56

  Tags: Apple, safari, security, web browsers

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  Firefox aims to make IE, Safari browsing more secure

  Mozilla has expanded a service that checks if a browser's plugins are current to now scan Internet Explorer, Safari Opera and Chrome in addition to its own Firefox.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 13 May, 2010 05:46

  Tags: firefox, internet explorer, mozilla, safari, web browsers

• Researcher reveals Safari zero-day bug

  Apple's Safari browser contains a critical, unpatched bug that attackers can use to infect Windows PCs with malicious code, researchers at US-CERT and other security firms said today.

  By Gregg Keizer | 11 May, 2010 06:22

  Tags: Apple, bug, javascript, Microsoft Windows, safari, security