Palo Alto, California -- Amid escalating criticism from users, privacy advocates and lawmakers alike -- that the world's largest social-networking site Facebook lacks competent privacy controls, CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday overhauled its privacy controls to fend off dissatisfied users that it is betraying the trust that has made it the world's biggest social network. Now, keeping your personal information underwraps on Facebook just got simpler.
In a news conference at its headquarters, Facebook's 26-year-old founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg addressed the attendees with: “Quite a lot of users are upset with us,” while he took the stock of recent blunders that caused growing pains said as he announced simplified privacy controls.
“It has been a pretty intense few weeks for us, listening to all the feedback coming in from all the changes we have made.” “One of the big lessons we learned from this is: Do not mess with the privacy stuff for a really long time.”
He said that -- “Our engineers and designers are holed up in a conference room in their Palo Alto offices cranking for the last couple of weeks on new privacy settings.”
As Facebook has vehemently expanded into a global behemoth of nearly 500 million users, a boisterous segment of them have taken resentment at new features that make their personal information widely available on the face of the Internet. Many were also discomfited with a dizzying array of more than 100 privacy-setting options, which Facebook has acknowledged can be overwhelming.
Zuckerberg admitted during the press conference that executives at the remarkably successful social networking firm have made mistakes and have communicated badly with users about their privacy concerns.
“We do not pretend that we are perfect,” Zuckerberg said in an interview. “We believe in privacy. We believe in giving people control. We try to create new things, hear feedback and respond with changes to that feedback all the time.”
“But more and more, people desirous of sharing the information. As long as they have good control over that, I think that is where the world is going,” said Zuckerberg.
At the conference, Zuckerberg released a revamped privacy settings controls that offers a new one-click options to help subscribers protect their privacy, and “significantly reduce” the amount of information that is always visible to everyone, responding to a hordes of complaints that it had become far too hard to determine and control levels of protection.
Screen shot of Facebook's new privacy controls rolling out over the next few weeks, taken from the social networking site's privacy guide.
The changes, which will be introduced gradually over the next few weeks, mean that one click can block any third-party sites from tapping into Facebook's treasure chest of data on a user. A similar one-click option will allow a user to stop applications on Facebook from digging into user information unless otherwise authorized.
“This is a pretty big redevelopment to the system we already have,” Zuckerberg said while describing the changes during a press briefing at the social network's headquarters in the California city of Palo Alto.
“This alteration certainly indicates that Facebook has put a lot of thought into privacy issues. Their new privacy controls show that they now 'get it' and understand user concerns,” said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. “What I especially like is how they are giving users a way to control what, if anything, is available to third-party Web sites and applications.”
Olds remarked that he is glad that Facebook not only included simplified controls but kept the more complicated, granular controls for users who want to really dive into the experience.
Still, privacy will stand in a way as an issue for Facebook, which was established as a private gathering place for college students but is now in the midst of tremendous expansion as an open computing platform, say privacy experts.
“I view [Facebook] battling between the communities of open communication and those who value privacy,” says Murray Jennex, a professor at San Diego State University.
Tour Facebook's new privacy settings ; Courtesy: Cnet
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Amid Backfire, Facebook CEO Overhauls Privacy Settings
Palo Alto, California -- Amid escalating criticism from users, privacy advocates and lawmakers alike -- that the world's largest social-networking site Facebook lacks competent privacy controls, CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday overhauled its privacy controls to fend off dissatisfied users that it is betraying the trust that has made it the world's biggest social network. Now, keeping your personal information underwraps on Facebook just got simpler.
In a news conference at its headquarters, Facebook's 26-year-old founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg addressed the attendees with: “Quite a lot of users are upset with us,” while he took the stock of recent blunders that caused growing pains said as he announced simplified privacy controls.
“It has been a pretty intense few weeks for us, listening to all the feedback coming in from all the changes we have made.” “One of the big lessons we learned from this is: Do not mess with the privacy stuff for a really long time.”
He said that -- “Our engineers and designers are holed up in a conference room in their Palo Alto offices cranking for the last couple of weeks on new privacy settings.”
As Facebook has vehemently expanded into a global behemoth of nearly 500 million users, a boisterous segment of them have taken resentment at new features that make their personal information widely available on the face of the Internet. Many were also discomfited with a dizzying array of more than 100 privacy-setting options, which Facebook has acknowledged can be overwhelming.
Zuckerberg admitted during the press conference that executives at the remarkably successful social networking firm have made mistakes and have communicated badly with users about their privacy concerns.
“We do not pretend that we are perfect,” Zuckerberg said in an interview. “We believe in privacy. We believe in giving people control. We try to create new things, hear feedback and respond with changes to that feedback all the time.”
“But more and more, people desirous of sharing the information. As long as they have good control over that, I think that is where the world is going,” said Zuckerberg.
At the conference, Zuckerberg released a revamped privacy settings controls that offers a new one-click options to help subscribers protect their privacy, and “significantly reduce” the amount of information that is always visible to everyone, responding to a hordes of complaints that it had become far too hard to determine and control levels of protection.
Screen shot of Facebook's new privacy controls rolling out over the next few weeks, taken from the social networking site's privacy guide.
The changes, which will be introduced gradually over the next few weeks, mean that one click can block any third-party sites from tapping into Facebook's treasure chest of data on a user. A similar one-click option will allow a user to stop applications on Facebook from digging into user information unless otherwise authorized.
“This is a pretty big redevelopment to the system we already have,” Zuckerberg said while describing the changes during a press briefing at the social network's headquarters in the California city of Palo Alto.
“This alteration certainly indicates that Facebook has put a lot of thought into privacy issues. Their new privacy controls show that they now 'get it' and understand user concerns,” said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. “What I especially like is how they are giving users a way to control what, if anything, is available to third-party Web sites and applications.”
Olds remarked that he is glad that Facebook not only included simplified controls but kept the more complicated, granular controls for users who want to really dive into the experience.
Still, privacy will stand in a way as an issue for Facebook, which was established as a private gathering place for college students but is now in the midst of tremendous expansion as an open computing platform, say privacy experts.
“I view [Facebook] battling between the communities of open communication and those who value privacy,” says Murray Jennex, a professor at San Diego State University.
Tour Facebook's new privacy settings ; Courtesy: Cnet
In a news conference at its headquarters, Facebook's 26-year-old founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg addressed the attendees with: “Quite a lot of users are upset with us,” while he took the stock of recent blunders that caused growing pains said as he announced simplified privacy controls.
“It has been a pretty intense few weeks for us, listening to all the feedback coming in from all the changes we have made.” “One of the big lessons we learned from this is: Do not mess with the privacy stuff for a really long time.”
He said that -- “Our engineers and designers are holed up in a conference room in their Palo Alto offices cranking for the last couple of weeks on new privacy settings.”
As Facebook has vehemently expanded into a global behemoth of nearly 500 million users, a boisterous segment of them have taken resentment at new features that make their personal information widely available on the face of the Internet. Many were also discomfited with a dizzying array of more than 100 privacy-setting options, which Facebook has acknowledged can be overwhelming.
Zuckerberg admitted during the press conference that executives at the remarkably successful social networking firm have made mistakes and have communicated badly with users about their privacy concerns.
“We do not pretend that we are perfect,” Zuckerberg said in an interview. “We believe in privacy. We believe in giving people control. We try to create new things, hear feedback and respond with changes to that feedback all the time.”
“But more and more, people desirous of sharing the information. As long as they have good control over that, I think that is where the world is going,” said Zuckerberg.
At the conference, Zuckerberg released a revamped privacy settings controls that offers a new one-click options to help subscribers protect their privacy, and “significantly reduce” the amount of information that is always visible to everyone, responding to a hordes of complaints that it had become far too hard to determine and control levels of protection.
Screen shot of Facebook's new privacy controls rolling out over the next few weeks, taken from the social networking site's privacy guide.
The changes, which will be introduced gradually over the next few weeks, mean that one click can block any third-party sites from tapping into Facebook's treasure chest of data on a user. A similar one-click option will allow a user to stop applications on Facebook from digging into user information unless otherwise authorized.
“This is a pretty big redevelopment to the system we already have,” Zuckerberg said while describing the changes during a press briefing at the social network's headquarters in the California city of Palo Alto.
“This alteration certainly indicates that Facebook has put a lot of thought into privacy issues. Their new privacy controls show that they now 'get it' and understand user concerns,” said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. “What I especially like is how they are giving users a way to control what, if anything, is available to third-party Web sites and applications.”
Olds remarked that he is glad that Facebook not only included simplified controls but kept the more complicated, granular controls for users who want to really dive into the experience.
Still, privacy will stand in a way as an issue for Facebook, which was established as a private gathering place for college students but is now in the midst of tremendous expansion as an open computing platform, say privacy experts.
“I view [Facebook] battling between the communities of open communication and those who value privacy,” says Murray Jennex, a professor at San Diego State University.
Tour Facebook's new privacy settings ; Courtesy: Cnet
Yahoo Makes Content Deal With “Farmville” Developers Zynga For Social Gaming
Sunnyvale, California -- Internet pioneer Yahoo seems to be on a tear has agreed to a deal with Zynga, makers of the monumentaly popular Farvmville and Mafia Wars games on Facebook, the alliance will see Yahoo integrating Zynga games across Yahoo's broad range of sites and service offerings, that includes Yahoo's home page, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Messenger, which is a significant indication that Zynga will not need Facebook alone to thrive.
Zynga has just announced a new partnership with Yahoo, a major victory for both companies. A representative for Yahoo quoted by WebProNews, “The partnership integrates Zynga's most popular social games across Yahoo!, empowering users to easily play games and access updates across some of its most popular properties including the Homepage, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and others. The incorporation is part of Yahoo!'s commitment to provide personally relevant experiences to people, from across the Web.”
“Hold your breathe for some exciting and engaging new titles coming to Yahoo that you can easily play with your friends, family, and fellow gamers and share with your networks across Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga,” wrote Yahoo senior director of developer network and social platforms Cody Simms.
“In addition to the recently endorsed Facebook and Twitter integrations, this relationship is a key part of advancing Yahoo!'s social experience that lets people share updates across Yahoo! and other social platforms,” the rep says. “This will motivate deeper user engagement, and create new opportunities for developers as an extension of Zynga's current platforms.”
“Yahoo is concentrating on delivering compelling, personally relevant experiences and social games are core to this experience,” said Yahoo Americas executive VP Hilary Schneider, in a statement. “Zynga will bring top notch social game experiences to Yahoo, including through our open platforms such as Yahoo Application Platform and Yahoo Updates.”
Zynga is popularly known for versions of its hot social games currently available on Facebook. Their titles are also accessible on MySpace and the iPhone.
Yahoo, though battling a lot in recent years, has one of the biggest audiences -- an estimated 600 million users on the planet. Zynga too, is also a Goliath in its own right, claiming to have over 230 million active users play its titles every month, so this partnership may end up benefiting both companies greatly.
This partnership is amongst the latest in a series of alliances and acquisitions the company has been making to strengthen its social and mobile offerings: Yahoo just days back announced a partnership with Nokia, over mapping and messaging software, just bought the Indonesian mobile social network Koprol, and recently announced partnerships with Twitter and Facebook to bring more of its users online social lives into the Yahoo framework.
Zynga games are expected to roll out across the Yahoo network in the coming months. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Zynga has just announced a new partnership with Yahoo, a major victory for both companies. A representative for Yahoo quoted by WebProNews, “The partnership integrates Zynga's most popular social games across Yahoo!, empowering users to easily play games and access updates across some of its most popular properties including the Homepage, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and others. The incorporation is part of Yahoo!'s commitment to provide personally relevant experiences to people, from across the Web.”
“Hold your breathe for some exciting and engaging new titles coming to Yahoo that you can easily play with your friends, family, and fellow gamers and share with your networks across Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga,” wrote Yahoo senior director of developer network and social platforms Cody Simms.
“In addition to the recently endorsed Facebook and Twitter integrations, this relationship is a key part of advancing Yahoo!'s social experience that lets people share updates across Yahoo! and other social platforms,” the rep says. “This will motivate deeper user engagement, and create new opportunities for developers as an extension of Zynga's current platforms.”
“Yahoo is concentrating on delivering compelling, personally relevant experiences and social games are core to this experience,” said Yahoo Americas executive VP Hilary Schneider, in a statement. “Zynga will bring top notch social game experiences to Yahoo, including through our open platforms such as Yahoo Application Platform and Yahoo Updates.”
Zynga is popularly known for versions of its hot social games currently available on Facebook. Their titles are also accessible on MySpace and the iPhone.
Yahoo, though battling a lot in recent years, has one of the biggest audiences -- an estimated 600 million users on the planet. Zynga too, is also a Goliath in its own right, claiming to have over 230 million active users play its titles every month, so this partnership may end up benefiting both companies greatly.
This partnership is amongst the latest in a series of alliances and acquisitions the company has been making to strengthen its social and mobile offerings: Yahoo just days back announced a partnership with Nokia, over mapping and messaging software, just bought the Indonesian mobile social network Koprol, and recently announced partnerships with Twitter and Facebook to bring more of its users online social lives into the Yahoo framework.
Zynga games are expected to roll out across the Yahoo network in the coming months. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Yahoo Makes Content Deal With “Farmville” Developers Zynga For Social Gaming
Sunnyvale, California -- Internet pioneer Yahoo seems to be on a tear has agreed to a deal with Zynga, makers of the monumentaly popular Farvmville and Mafia Wars games on Facebook, the alliance will see Yahoo integrating Zynga games across Yahoo's broad range of sites and service offerings, that includes Yahoo's home page, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Messenger, which is a significant indication that Zynga will not need Facebook alone to thrive.
Zynga has just announced a new partnership with Yahoo, a major victory for both companies. A representative for Yahoo quoted by WebProNews, “The partnership integrates Zynga's most popular social games across Yahoo!, empowering users to easily play games and access updates across some of its most popular properties including the Homepage, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and others. The incorporation is part of Yahoo!'s commitment to provide personally relevant experiences to people, from across the Web.”
“Hold your breathe for some exciting and engaging new titles coming to Yahoo that you can easily play with your friends, family, and fellow gamers and share with your networks across Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga,” wrote Yahoo senior director of developer network and social platforms Cody Simms.
“In addition to the recently endorsed Facebook and Twitter integrations, this relationship is a key part of advancing Yahoo!'s social experience that lets people share updates across Yahoo! and other social platforms,” the rep says. “This will motivate deeper user engagement, and create new opportunities for developers as an extension of Zynga's current platforms.”
“Yahoo is concentrating on delivering compelling, personally relevant experiences and social games are core to this experience,” said Yahoo Americas executive VP Hilary Schneider, in a statement. “Zynga will bring top notch social game experiences to Yahoo, including through our open platforms such as Yahoo Application Platform and Yahoo Updates.”
Zynga is popularly known for versions of its hot social games currently available on Facebook. Their titles are also accessible on MySpace and the iPhone.
Yahoo, though battling a lot in recent years, has one of the biggest audiences -- an estimated 600 million users on the planet. Zynga too, is also a Goliath in its own right, claiming to have over 230 million active users play its titles every month, so this partnership may end up benefiting both companies greatly.
This partnership is amongst the latest in a series of alliances and acquisitions the company has been making to strengthen its social and mobile offerings: Yahoo just days back announced a partnership with Nokia, over mapping and messaging software, just bought the Indonesian mobile social network Koprol, and recently announced partnerships with Twitter and Facebook to bring more of its users online social lives into the Yahoo framework.
Zynga games are expected to roll out across the Yahoo network in the coming months. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Zynga has just announced a new partnership with Yahoo, a major victory for both companies. A representative for Yahoo quoted by WebProNews, “The partnership integrates Zynga's most popular social games across Yahoo!, empowering users to easily play games and access updates across some of its most popular properties including the Homepage, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and others. The incorporation is part of Yahoo!'s commitment to provide personally relevant experiences to people, from across the Web.”
“Hold your breathe for some exciting and engaging new titles coming to Yahoo that you can easily play with your friends, family, and fellow gamers and share with your networks across Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga,” wrote Yahoo senior director of developer network and social platforms Cody Simms.
“In addition to the recently endorsed Facebook and Twitter integrations, this relationship is a key part of advancing Yahoo!'s social experience that lets people share updates across Yahoo! and other social platforms,” the rep says. “This will motivate deeper user engagement, and create new opportunities for developers as an extension of Zynga's current platforms.”
“Yahoo is concentrating on delivering compelling, personally relevant experiences and social games are core to this experience,” said Yahoo Americas executive VP Hilary Schneider, in a statement. “Zynga will bring top notch social game experiences to Yahoo, including through our open platforms such as Yahoo Application Platform and Yahoo Updates.”
Zynga is popularly known for versions of its hot social games currently available on Facebook. Their titles are also accessible on MySpace and the iPhone.
Yahoo, though battling a lot in recent years, has one of the biggest audiences -- an estimated 600 million users on the planet. Zynga too, is also a Goliath in its own right, claiming to have over 230 million active users play its titles every month, so this partnership may end up benefiting both companies greatly.
This partnership is amongst the latest in a series of alliances and acquisitions the company has been making to strengthen its social and mobile offerings: Yahoo just days back announced a partnership with Nokia, over mapping and messaging software, just bought the Indonesian mobile social network Koprol, and recently announced partnerships with Twitter and Facebook to bring more of its users online social lives into the Yahoo framework.
Zynga games are expected to roll out across the Yahoo network in the coming months. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Google Announces Chrome Stable For Linux, Mac
Mountain View, California -- Google has moved the latest version of Chrome 5 for Windows out of beta and also announced stable versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux, and upgraded the browser for the first time withmany new features and speed, since launching the Web browser's fifth revision in less than two years.
The latest Windows version operates JavaScript 30% to 35% faster than the earlier version, according to Google. The new stable release for Mac and Linux empowers users to synchronize bookmarks and browser preferences across multiple computers and platforms so consumers can feel at home no matter which machine they work on. Preferences include color themes, homepage, startup settings, Web content settings and page zoom settings.
According to threatpost.com, the release also resolves “at least two 'high risk' vulnerabilities and several security-related denial-of-service crashes.”
“Our stable release also combines HTML5 features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop,” wrote Google on its Chrome blog on May 25.
The browser also offers several HTML5-based features, gains lots of attention recently as the centerpiece of an ongoing dispute between Apple and Adobe, which includes geolocation APIs, App Cache, Web sockets, and attachment drag-and-drop in Gmail. Although Adobe's Flash player was integrated into the development versions of Chrome 5, it has been touch-and-go in the beta versions and has not yet made it to the stable release of Chrome 5. The developer's version is now on version 6.
Apple has refused to support Flash on the iPhone or iPad.
“For a taste of HTML5's powerful features, try browsing through websites developed in HTML5 such as scribd.com, dragging and dropping attachments in Gmail, or by enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps. We have also given Chrome's bookmark manager a facelift with HTML5.”
According to data released by NetMarketShare in April, Chrome had a market share of around 6.73 percent, while rival browsers IE (59.95%) Firefox (24.59%), Safari (4.72%) and Opera (2.30%) joined Chrome in the list of top five most used browsers. The latest release is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Chrome v5.0.375.55 includes support for extensions and themes, improved bookmark management and synchronization, browser preferences syncing, and the most recent stable updates to Chrome's trailblazing JavaScript engine, V8.
The latest Windows version operates JavaScript 30% to 35% faster than the earlier version, according to Google. The new stable release for Mac and Linux empowers users to synchronize bookmarks and browser preferences across multiple computers and platforms so consumers can feel at home no matter which machine they work on. Preferences include color themes, homepage, startup settings, Web content settings and page zoom settings.
According to threatpost.com, the release also resolves “at least two 'high risk' vulnerabilities and several security-related denial-of-service crashes.”
“Our stable release also combines HTML5 features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop,” wrote Google on its Chrome blog on May 25.
The browser also offers several HTML5-based features, gains lots of attention recently as the centerpiece of an ongoing dispute between Apple and Adobe, which includes geolocation APIs, App Cache, Web sockets, and attachment drag-and-drop in Gmail. Although Adobe's Flash player was integrated into the development versions of Chrome 5, it has been touch-and-go in the beta versions and has not yet made it to the stable release of Chrome 5. The developer's version is now on version 6.
Apple has refused to support Flash on the iPhone or iPad.
“For a taste of HTML5's powerful features, try browsing through websites developed in HTML5 such as scribd.com, dragging and dropping attachments in Gmail, or by enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps. We have also given Chrome's bookmark manager a facelift with HTML5.”
According to data released by NetMarketShare in April, Chrome had a market share of around 6.73 percent, while rival browsers IE (59.95%) Firefox (24.59%), Safari (4.72%) and Opera (2.30%) joined Chrome in the list of top five most used browsers. The latest release is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Chrome v5.0.375.55 includes support for extensions and themes, improved bookmark management and synchronization, browser preferences syncing, and the most recent stable updates to Chrome's trailblazing JavaScript engine, V8.
Google Announces Chrome Stable For Linux, Mac
Mountain View, California -- Google has moved the latest version of Chrome 5 for Windows out of beta and also announced stable versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux, and upgraded the browser for the first time withmany new features and speed, since launching the Web browser's fifth revision in less than two years.
The latest Windows version operates JavaScript 30% to 35% faster than the earlier version, according to Google. The new stable release for Mac and Linux empowers users to synchronize bookmarks and browser preferences across multiple computers and platforms so consumers can feel at home no matter which machine they work on. Preferences include color themes, homepage, startup settings, Web content settings and page zoom settings.
According to threatpost.com, the release also resolves “at least two 'high risk' vulnerabilities and several security-related denial-of-service crashes.”
“Our stable release also combines HTML5 features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop,” wrote Google on its Chrome blog on May 25.
The browser also offers several HTML5-based features, gains lots of attention recently as the centerpiece of an ongoing dispute between Apple and Adobe, which includes geolocation APIs, App Cache, Web sockets, and attachment drag-and-drop in Gmail. Although Adobe's Flash player was integrated into the development versions of Chrome 5, it has been touch-and-go in the beta versions and has not yet made it to the stable release of Chrome 5. The developer's version is now on version 6.
Apple has refused to support Flash on the iPhone or iPad.
“For a taste of HTML5's powerful features, try browsing through websites developed in HTML5 such as scribd.com, dragging and dropping attachments in Gmail, or by enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps. We have also given Chrome's bookmark manager a facelift with HTML5.”
According to data released by NetMarketShare in April, Chrome had a market share of around 6.73 percent, while rival browsers IE (59.95%) Firefox (24.59%), Safari (4.72%) and Opera (2.30%) joined Chrome in the list of top five most used browsers. The latest release is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Chrome v5.0.375.55 includes support for extensions and themes, improved bookmark management and synchronization, browser preferences syncing, and the most recent stable updates to Chrome's trailblazing JavaScript engine, V8.
The latest Windows version operates JavaScript 30% to 35% faster than the earlier version, according to Google. The new stable release for Mac and Linux empowers users to synchronize bookmarks and browser preferences across multiple computers and platforms so consumers can feel at home no matter which machine they work on. Preferences include color themes, homepage, startup settings, Web content settings and page zoom settings.
According to threatpost.com, the release also resolves “at least two 'high risk' vulnerabilities and several security-related denial-of-service crashes.”
“Our stable release also combines HTML5 features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop,” wrote Google on its Chrome blog on May 25.
The browser also offers several HTML5-based features, gains lots of attention recently as the centerpiece of an ongoing dispute between Apple and Adobe, which includes geolocation APIs, App Cache, Web sockets, and attachment drag-and-drop in Gmail. Although Adobe's Flash player was integrated into the development versions of Chrome 5, it has been touch-and-go in the beta versions and has not yet made it to the stable release of Chrome 5. The developer's version is now on version 6.
Apple has refused to support Flash on the iPhone or iPad.
“For a taste of HTML5's powerful features, try browsing through websites developed in HTML5 such as scribd.com, dragging and dropping attachments in Gmail, or by enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps. We have also given Chrome's bookmark manager a facelift with HTML5.”
According to data released by NetMarketShare in April, Chrome had a market share of around 6.73 percent, while rival browsers IE (59.95%) Firefox (24.59%), Safari (4.72%) and Opera (2.30%) joined Chrome in the list of top five most used browsers. The latest release is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Chrome v5.0.375.55 includes support for extensions and themes, improved bookmark management and synchronization, browser preferences syncing, and the most recent stable updates to Chrome's trailblazing JavaScript engine, V8.
Google allows Street View car inspection
Internet
giant Google is to allow German data protection officers to examine one of its controversial Street View cars, which collect data for its online mapping service, the company announced Thursday.
Earlier this month, German officials were highly critical of a data protection gaffe which enabled the Google's vehicles to collect snippets of private data on unencrypted wifi networks as they trawled the streets gathering information to appear on Street View.
The decision came after Hamburg data protection officer Johannes Caspar asked to inspect a Street View vehicle, when Google admitted the error earlier this month.giant Google is to allow German data protection officers to examine one of its controversial Street View cars, which collect data for its online mapping service, the company announced Thursday.
Earlier this month, German officials were highly critical of a data protection gaffe which enabled the Google's vehicles to collect snippets of private data on unencrypted wifi networks as they trawled the streets gathering information to appear on Street View.
"Since we announced two weeks ago that we wrongly recorded wifi user data, we are globally working hard to address the associated concerns of data protection authorities," Google wrote in a statement.
The US company also agreed in principle for Caspar to see an original hard drive
from a Street View vehicle, but said they first had to resolve legal issues over the private data contained on such a hard drive.
"We hope that a solution for this difficult situation will be found soon," Google said.
Hamburg-based prosecutors have launched an initial investigation into the data collection gaffe.
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