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Netflix Hack Day Helps With Improvements

As most everyone knows, Netflix is the quality provider of quality videos for individuals who choose to view movies at home. One of the newest events is Netflix Hack day. This is an event that happens every couple of months where Netflix product developers and technical teams play around with the inner workings of Netflix […]

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Pop-Up behind Chrome Listens to User’s Offline Conversations

Developer Tal Ater observed a strange phenomenon related to the microphone permission policies of Chrome that enables the malicious sites to listen to the user’s offline activities. Such malicious websites can generate pop-ups hidden in the background that will keep listening to the user. Tal Ater revealed that a pop-up window still remains open even […]

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5 Tips To Faster Internet Speeds

Before attempting to increase the speed of an internet connection, it helps to download a speed tester that can give an indication of how fast the connection is in general. With this reading, testing can be done for increases and decreases in speed. A speed tester can also indicate if a connection speed is already […]

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Google Announces Chromebook And More At Google I/O 2011

While the first day of the Google I/O 2011 Developer Conference was all about Android, during the second day it was all about Chrome.   The keynote was kicked off with were Chrome, Googles web browser was at in the amount of users which is at 160 million. The company also announced a new version […]

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Google Chrome 10 Beta, Browsing At The Speed of Thought

The title actually reminds of a book I read by Bill Gates back in the late 90’s called Business at the Speed of Thought. In that book, Gates described a paperless society in which computer systems would be managing all of the menial tasks that people “used” to do by hand. I’m starting think that, […]

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Firefox Beats Internet Explorer, Now #1 Browser in Europe

For the first time ever, Mozilla’s Firefox has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the #1 web browser in Europe. According to StatCounter, a web analytics firm, Firefox dominated with a 38.11% web browser market share while Internet Explorer came in second place with a 37.52% market share. “This is the first time that IE has […]

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People Already Hacking The Google Chrome OS Netbook Cr-48 (Video)

Last month, Google allowed people to request a free netbook (called the Cr-48) running their Chrome OS. Google wants to get feedback from users on the new Chrome OS, and figured that getting free ones out to users would be the best thing. On a side note – I requested several of these and haven’t […]