Google has agreed to a pay a $22.5 million penalty to settle its tracking dispute with the US Federal Trade Commission, according to a press release from the agency. The payout was previously rumored but has only now been confirmed. The penalty is said to be the largest ever for violation of an FTC order; […]
Officials within the US Federal Trade Commission have reportedly agreed to allow Google to pay a settlement for circumventing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser. Corroborating earlier reports, unnamed sources have told Reuters the company will have to pay $22.5 million to avoid further proceedings, however it will not be forced to admit liability. The […]
Hot on the heels of the day’s earlier release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (Developer Preview 3), Apple has released a new beta of the forthcoming Safari 5.2 as well as a preview of programming tool Xcode 4.4. Both updates bring noticeable new features to the programs, but both are only for developers and […]
Mozilla and several other browser developers have voiced concern over the dominance of WebKit-based browsers, notably Safari and Chrome. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) co-chairman Daniel Glazman suggests programmers have begun to disregard alternative browsers, such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, when optimizing website compatibility. Developers from Mozilla and Microsoft admitted that they are being […]
Google is previewing Dart, a new programming language for building web apps. The language has been designed to be flexible, meeting the needs of a one-person project, without much structure, and scaling up to a large-scale project needing formal types in the code. Initially the code will support at least Chrome, Safari 5, and Firefox […]
For over two years, Amazon has been offering a wide selection of free Kindle reading apps that enable customers to “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” as Amazon likes to say. The platforms include Kindles, iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, PCs, Macs, Android phones and tablets, and BlackBerrys. Well today they have change the game by using the […]
Piriform has released an initial Mac beta of CCleaner. Long a popular Windows tool, the software is currently missing some features in early Mac form. It nevertheless handles the primary function of scanning for and deleting unwanted files, which can clear up drive space and improve local security. On a basic level the app will […]
Apple has posted a security update for its Safari browser, which has been released alongside a related security update for Snow Leopard. Safari 5.0.5 brings several critical fixes for its WebKit engine, patching vulnerabilities that were discovered by researchers working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative. The changes are designed to help protect against sites containing […]
Apple has issued security updates for its Safari 5 web browser. The update affecting Safari 5 for Mac and Windows fixes more than 60 flaws and upgrades the web browser to version 5.0.4. Unlike most other computing firms, including Microsoft and Adobe, Apple does not assign severity levels to the vulnerabilities discovered in its products. […]
Adobe has just released the 10.3 beta version of Flash Player for Mac, Linux and Windows – not mobile devices. 10.3 has new developer features and added user privacy protection. The beta integrates with Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 8 browsers’ privacy controls for local storage – support for Chrome and Safari are coming. The […]
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