Thursday, February 9th, 2012 3:16 am

Google proposes DNS Extension

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google and a group of DNS providers recommended extending the DNS protocol. DNS is the system that translates an easy-to-remember name like www.ip-192.com to a numeric address. These are the IP addresses that computers use to communicate with one another on the Internet. By returning different addresses to requests coming from different [...]

Windows 7 Best-Selling OS Ever

Redmond (ip-192.com): Strong consumer demand for Windows 7 helped Microsoft to a bigger-than-expected profit jump in the most recent quarter. Sales in Microsoft's Windows division soared 70 per cent after the Windows 7 operating system raked in much better reviews than its predecessor, Windows Vista. Exceptional demand for Windows 7 led to the positive top-line [...]

Google Social Search goes Public

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Social Search service, which includes public content from users' social networks such as blogs and tweets in search results, is moving to Google.com from the company's Labs site. Google will let English-language users of its search engine see relevant links to items their social-networking contacts have posted publicly on the Web. [...]

Chrome 4.0 with 1,500 Apps

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): It’s all about numbers: Google has released update 4.0 to its Chrome browser, promising improved security and more than 1,500 new features through extensions, along with an Opera-like bookmark sync function. "We are excited to usher in the new year with a bundle of browser goodness for the stable version of Google [...]