Another blow has been dealt to Internet Explorer’s credibility as a reliable and safe browser recently. Using an undocumented browser security flaw in all versions of the browser the Chinese government was able to hack into several Gmail accounts. read more… »
Another Blow To Internet Explorer’s Reputation
Exciting Times For 2010
2010 sure seems to be an exciting year in terms of technology. With an array of predicted and planned new technology releases amidst an economic upturn this year will surely set the stage for brilliant innovation and development. According to leading news sources 2010 is expected to dramatically influence the way we use the internet along with how our devices will interconnect, merge and improve.
GoogSysTray – A complete Google Notifier
Google has expanded into over 150 domain names and countless online services. With the Google account these services are accessible with one identity. The GoogSysTray application unifies all these services under your Google Account into one system tray notification application. Mighty useful as a time saver and as a hassle free way of online computing.
Google Chrome OS Peak
Google did mention to expect an early version of their operating system, soon. They did stick to thier promise and offered a development snapshot of thier upcoming operating system today. As speculated the operating system is the chrome browser on steroids, it seems that the whole interface is web browser centric. There will be no conventional applications, all the apps run on the OS is said to be web applications.
Could there Be Google OS Clues in Google Wave??
I Received my Google Wave invite from Google this morning. After a long wait it was relieving to see that Google considered me by sending the invite. The service looks incredibly exciting but there is alot of playing and learning to be done since it is such an innovative and different product.
Firefox, Gmail Love – 5 Gmail Firefox Extensions
Gmail, a product that broke convention and literally changed the webmail field forever. Gmail continues to be the leading webmail service, despite competitor’s efforts. However with all of Gmail’s greatness, it sometimes wouldn’t hurt to pimp it up slightly with some extra useful features. This is where Firefox and its extensibility comes to the rescue.
Thunderbird 3 Edges Closer
For those who don’t know about Thunderbird, Thunderbird is Firefox’s sister application, a powerful email client that shares Firefox’s incredible might for extensibility and usability.
“Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release, and 1,000,000 in 10 days” – Wikipedia
Shorts – Google Removes “beta” Label
Google’s mail offering Gmail has recently removed its “beta” tag five years after its luanch. Its been five years of testing and perhaps the label removal was quite overdue. This could demonstrate a move from Google to target the enterprise.
