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Free application for the traveler or explorer. This app is essential for any traveler. It includes customs, cultural information, and facts on over 165 different countries. Easily browsable by flag, by index, or just by scrolling, you’ll be able...

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Google groups got new look The new Google Groups, which you can switch to in a click, jazzes everything up in a cleaned-up, Gmail/Google Reader that has as an anchor a left-hand navigation bar that allows users to see groups,...

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Social Networking: The Future In my first post I talked about the history of social networking from 1985-2002 dominated by CompuServe, AOL & Yahoo! In the second post I explored the current era which covers Web 2.0 (blogs, YouTube,...

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Chrome, Now Used By 120 Million People Google’s Chrome browser is now being used by 120 million people on a daily basis, which is up from 70 million the last time the company disclosed internal usage numbers last May. The new figures...

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IE9 introduces anti-tracking tool

Category : Microsoft

The tools will let people stop a site they are visiting sharing information about what they do with other sites.

Users will be able to create lists stating that their data will only be shared with sites they want to see it.

The news comes as the US government criticises the computer industry for its slow progress on protecting user privacy.

In a blog post, Microsoft said many people did not realise that when they visit a website what they look for, view or buy there is often shared with other companies without that user’s knowledge. → Continue

Chrome, Now Used By 120 Million People

Category : Blogs, Business, Google

Google’s Chrome browser is now being used by 120 million people on a daily basis, which is up from 70 million the last time the company disclosed internal usage numbers last May. The new figures were disclosed moments ago at Google’s Chrome event, which Jason iscovering live.

The Chrome browser has been seeing big jumps in market share recently, currently taking the No. 3 spot with a 9.26 percent overall share according to Net Applications. On TechCrunch, it is now the top browserused among our readers. → Continue

Opera 11 Beta Lets You Stack Your Browser Tabs

Category : Blogs

Opera software has released the first beta of the upcoming Opera 11 browser.

New in Tuesday’s release is an innovative feature called “Tab Stacking,” which gives you the ability to stack and group your tabs together to better organize the pages you’re viewing. → Continue

From the first email to the first YouTube video: a definitive internet history

Category : News

The first email

In late 1971 Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on a time-sharing system called Tenex, combined two programs named Cpynet and SNDMSG in order to send the first ever network email. It had been possible to send email from one user to another on a single computer for nearly 10 years but Tomlinson was the first to use the primitive Arpanet to send text from one computer to another. → Continue