Friday, February 10th, 2012 9:23 am

Amazon: Browser based app for eBooks

Seattle (ip-192.com): Kindle Cloud Reader is a new HTML 5 based web app from Amazon, allowing users to read eBooks online or offline by using a web browser. The application automatically synchronizes libraries, the last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights for Kindle books. The Cloud Reader works on Apple’s iPad and is currently available [...]

2011: 42 percent of PCs run Windows 7

Stamford (ip-192.com): Linux distributions are expected to remain niche operating systems over the next five years, capturing a market share of less than two percent because of the remaining high costs of application migration from Windows to Linux, information technology research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. says. In the consumer market, Linux will be run [...]

Chrome 10: Google browser faster, more secure

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): What is fast, more secure, and allows searching the Internet directly from the address bar? The latest version of Chrome is the answer, if you ask Internet search and cloud computing giant Google. Release 10.0.648.127 shows notable faster JavaScript performance, due to incorporation of Crankshaft, an improved compiler for V8. Google says [...]

$20000: Google pays for hacking Chrome

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google is looking for security researchers and hackers willing and able to break its Chrome browser, and the company is willing to pay for it. It offers $20,000 to the first IT specialist who can gain full control of a laptop that runs its Chrome browser during the 5th annual Pwn2Own conference. [...]