Tag: Google
Mozilla’s Cash Cow Contract Coming To An End
Sugar daddy contracts.
Back in 2011, Google and Mozilla extended their partnership (where Firefox will set Google as a default search engine) and now it looks like the agreement is nearing the expiration date.
The good news? Both sides are already talking and the money should continue flowing (unless something terrible happens).
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Google Chrome: Make Your Data Even More Secure With A $5.99 FIDO U2F Security Key
USB is the only requirement.
If you are one of those individuals that are really sensitive about their data then here is a pretty awesome solution from Google.
Starting with Google Chrome 38, users will be able to identify themselves with a FIDO U2F Security Key (available for $5.99 or $17.99, whichever you prefer (products taken from Google’s help page)), and it works on all the platforms: Windows, Mac OS, Linux and ChromeOS, no drivers required.
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Awesome Google Chrome Extensions: Earth View From Google Maps
Now here’s something pretty great that could warm you up on a cold night. Well, not really but opening a New Tab page on Google Chrome will certainly be a much more interesting routine.
Thanks to the “Earth View from Google Maps” extension, you will see some pretty spectacular views every time a New Tab page is opened.
Here are some of the examples:
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Google Discovers Another SSL Exploit
Back in April, everyone was talking about “that Heartbleed thing”, now, it looks like the search giant has found a new exploit in the now 18 year’s old SSL 3.0 protocol, which is still supported in a lot of web browser and can also be used as a fallback in case newer protocols fail to connect.
How to fix it? Well, the server administrators could disable SSL 3.0 completely but that’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. As far as other solutions go, Google says that it can’t be fixed and there are no reasonable workarounds.
On a slightly positive note, it was discovered (and not fully revealed) by Google so no one knows how widespread it exactly is. So here you have it folks, an exploit that can’t be fixed.
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Download Google Chrome 39 (32 & 64 Bit) Beta
Build 39.0.2171.13
Now here’s something pretty neat: the very first beta version of Google Chrome 39 that comes in both x86 and x86-64 flavors (for Mac users), which means that the search giant continues to invest into the “newer” technologies.
Although not as exciting, there are also a bunch of new app and extension APIs as well as (now expected) stability and performance improvements.
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Download Google Chrome 38 Stable
Good news for all your Chrome users out there, the search giant has just published build 38.0.2125.101 to the stable channel.
While there are no significant new features among a bunch of new extension APIs and performance / stability improvements, it marks for a pretty important release due to a lot of security related fixes (w whopping 159). In fact, Google has paid a total of $23,000 in bounties, which is a lot!
If you are curious about all of them, see the following post, otherwise, get Chrome from the link below.
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Google Triples Chrome’s Max Bounty
More money, more security.
After squashing more than 700 Chrome security bugs and paying a total of $1.25 in rewards, the search giant has decided to encourage hackers even more.
Starting from July 1, 2014 (yes, they are going backwards as a special treat even though they announced it recently), Google is upping the maximum reward range from $5000 to $15,000, which is triple of what they used to pay (although there were always few exceptions such as last month’s $30,000 pay for what they call to be “a very impressive report”.
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Chromebooks Receive A $199 Windows Competitor
It looks like Google won’t be eating the very low end market share lunch all by itself as Microsoft & HP have announced two new Windows models that aim to compete with the Chrome OS.
First is the HP’s Stream laptop, which comes with an 11.6 inch screen, HD display, a fanless design, Office 365 and the 32GB of storage, all for $199 while the HP Stream 13 (an 13.3 inch version) will cost you $229. There is also another, 14 inch version, which is coming later.
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Chrome OS Receives A Streaming Version Of Photoshop
Get access right now, sort of.
Good news for all your Photoshop users out there that are considering buying a Chromebook. Why? Well, it looks like the search giant and Adobe have partnered to bring you the streaming version of Photoshop to your Chromebook and they even integrated Google Drive into it!
What’s the catch? Well, as of now it’s for U.S. based Adobe education customers only that have a paid Creative Cloud membership.
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Microsoft Reveals Its Chromecast Competitor
Costs $60.
Chromecast, a digital media player that can mirror content from Google Chrome, has been a pretty popular device among techies, especially since it costs only $35.
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