http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Webmaster Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:11:03 GMT Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:11:03 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/With-Two-1-Million-Projects-in-One-Day-Kickstarter-Comes-into-Its-Own-252242.shtml Kickstarter has been making waves for the past couple of years or so, but it is now living one of its biggest days yet. The service enables creators, which can mean pretty much anything, to seek funding for their projects from the people that would become their customers.

In the past, it has been used to fund indep... (read more)]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:21:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/With-Two-1-Million-Projects-in-One-Day-Kickstarter-Comes-into-Its-Own-252242.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/With-Two-1-Million-Projects-in-One-Day-Kickstarter-Comes-into-Its-Own-252242.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-19-Adds-Support-for-Next-Generation-JavaScript-252219.shtml Google Chrome 19 has landed in the dev channel and is ready for testing. It already brings several new features and it's got six more weeks in the dev channel to get more. But apart form the new features, Chrome 19 also adds support for some advanced JavaScript concepts part of the Harmony project, which is slated to become the next m... (read more)]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:51:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-19-Adds-Support-for-Next-Generation-JavaScript-252219.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-19-Adds-Support-for-Next-Generation-JavaScript-252219.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-s-Snazzy-HTML5-Visualization-Shows-What-Stories-are-Popular-and-with-Whom-252209.shtml
Yahoo uses a wide variety of info to pick the stories that it serves to any visitor. Based on the type of data Yahoo has on a user it can determine what stores are more likely to interest him or her.

"C.O.R.E. measures how often users click on st... (read more)]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-s-Snazzy-HTML5-Visualization-Shows-What-Stories-are-Popular-and-with-Whom-252209.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-s-Snazzy-HTML5-Visualization-Shows-What-Stories-are-Popular-and-with-Whom-252209.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Pays-300-000-226-000-for-Chrome-Vulnerabilities-Chrome-OS-Now-Included-252140.shtml Google is celebrating two years since it started offering monetary rewards for security vulnerability reports in Chrome and related technology. During that time, Google paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to researchers revealing vulnerabilities.

Now, Google is expanding the program to include Chrome OS... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Pays-300-000-226-000-for-Chrome-Vulnerabilities-Chrome-OS-Now-Included-252140.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Pays-300-000-226-000-for-Chrome-Vulnerabilities-Chrome-OS-Now-Included-252140.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Continues-to-Grow-Bing-Powered-Search-Shrinks-for-Another-Month-252104.shtml Google has gained market share for the second month in a row, while Yahoo continues to bleed. Bing has solidified its number two spot and distanced itself from Yahoo, though mostly because Yahoo is continuing to fall and not because Bing is gaining.

Google finished January with a 66.2 percent market share, as de... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:22:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Continues-to-Grow-Bing-Powered-Search-Shrinks-for-Another-Month-252104.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Continues-to-Grow-Bing-Powered-Search-Shrinks-for-Another-Month-252104.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Share-Spectacular-Google-Earth-Vistas-on-Google-252080.shtml Google Earth 6.2 was launched recently and it added quite a few new features or rather improvements. For one, all satellite imagery has been enhanced and now blends with its surrounding landscape to create one uniform and beautiful Earth.

Second, ocean terrain data has been improved with a big update that brings a lot more deta... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:41:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Share-Spectacular-Google-Earth-Vistas-on-Google-252080.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Share-Spectacular-Google-Earth-Vistas-on-Google-252080.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Working-on-Home-Entertainment-Device-for-Non-Obvious-Reasons-252053.shtml Google is getting into the hardware business, at least that's the latest rumor. And no, this isn't about Motorola or Android, it's actual Google-branded hardware, a "home entertainment system" that would stream music from the web and keep your device in sync.

It is very likely that it will stream video as well. The... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:43:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Working-on-Home-Entertainment-Device-for-Non-Obvious-Reasons-252053.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Working-on-Home-Entertainment-Device-for-Non-Obvious-Reasons-252053.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Black-Google-Navbar-Is-Back-for-Good-251985.shtml It's official, the old black navbar is back. Well, actually a hybrid of the old black bar and the new unified header has been set loose and this is the final version of the Google bar, at least for now, rolling out to everyone in the next few weeks.

The black navbar was introduced about the time Google+ was launched along with the Search red... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:01:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Black-Google-Navbar-Is-Back-for-Good-251985.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Black-Google-Navbar-Is-Back-for-Good-251985.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-18-Beta-Adds-GPU-Powered-Canvas-CPU-Powered-WebGL-251970.shtml Now that Google Chrome 17 is in the stable channel, Google Chrome 18 has been pushed to the beta channel. The latest chrome to wear the beta label comes with two big new features, both focusing on graphics.

Accelerated 2D HTML5 Canvas

On the one hand, 2D HTML5 Canvas graphics are now hardware accelerated, ... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:25:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-18-Beta-Adds-GPU-Powered-Canvas-CPU-Powered-WebGL-251970.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-18-Beta-Adds-GPU-Powered-Canvas-CPU-Powered-WebGL-251970.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nginx-the-Second-Most-Popular-Web-Server-Launches-Commercial-Support-251893.shtml As expected, Nginx has now rolled out a commercial version. The frugal web server has been growing fast for the past year in particular and its creator finally decided to build a company around it.

"Intended for small, medium or large-scale commercial web installations, these offerings will be delivered by the origi... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:01:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nginx-the-Second-Most-Popular-Web-Server-Launches-Commercial-Support-251893.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nginx-the-Second-Most-Popular-Web-Server-Launches-Commercial-Support-251893.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Wants-Brilliant-Young-Minds-for-Zeitgeist-2012-251836.shtml Google has several programs aimed at spurring kids into getting more involved with science, of any kind. With the new Solve for X, it's also bringing together people bent on making a change in the world.

Now it's trying to do the same for the more precocious with the Zeitgeist Young Minds 2012.

Those that believe t... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:11:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Wants-Brilliant-Young-Minds-for-Zeitgeist-2012-251836.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Wants-Brilliant-Young-Minds-for-Zeitgeist-2012-251836.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-s-Assault-on-TV-Continues-with-Two-Car-Channels-251798.shtml YouTube is continuing its drive to create more dedicated and professional or semi-professional channels. Not long ago, it debuted several channels dedicated to action sports. Now, it's time for a couple dedicated to cars.

YouTube is announcing that two new car channels are debuting on the site. Both of them will feature regula... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:11:01 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-s-Assault-on-TV-Continues-with-Two-Car-Channels-251798.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-s-Assault-on-TV-Continues-with-Two-Car-Channels-251798.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/IPO-Amendment-Reveals-Zynga-Gets-Special-Treatment-from-Facebook-251786.shtml Zynga and Facebook have had a special deal for a few years now, that's not much of a secret. In fact, parts of the deal have leaked over time and some details were known, even if they weren't official. What was clear was that Zynga enjoyed preferential treatment on the Facebook platform, one that no other developer enjoyed.
... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:31:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/IPO-Amendment-Reveals-Zynga-Gets-Special-Treatment-from-Facebook-251786.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/IPO-Amendment-Reveals-Zynga-Gets-Special-Treatment-from-Facebook-251786.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-17-Stable-Coming-Soon-for-Chromebook-Owners-as-Well-251772.shtml Google Chrome 17 has landed in the stable channel. As always, Chromebook owners have to wait some more though, they're still stuck with Chrome 16 for the time being. It shouldn't be long now, but Chrome 17 certainly isn't ready for now.

Google though decided to at least give Chromebook owners a heads-up on some of th... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:11:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-17-Stable-Coming-Soon-for-Chromebook-Owners-as-Well-251772.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-17-Stable-Coming-Soon-for-Chromebook-Owners-as-Well-251772.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/MegaUpload-Shutdown-Had-No-Significant-Impact-on-File-Sharing-Surprising-No-One-251759.shtml MegaUpload was one of the world's largest websites, at least in terms of traffic. It was used by at least several tens of millions of people each month. Having it wiped out from the face of the web should have had a noticeable impact, traffic numbers across the web and the world should have dropped now that all thos... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:31:01 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/MegaUpload-Shutdown-Had-No-Significant-Impact-on-File-Sharing-Surprising-No-One-251759.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/MegaUpload-Shutdown-Had-No-Significant-Impact-on-File-Sharing-Surprising-No-One-251759.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-New-Google-Analytics-Translated-to-9-More-Languages-251747.shtml
But the old Analytics is still available and it's still the default. Google will start switching to the new interface and will eventually move everyone over to it, but it is going ... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:51:01 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-New-Google-Analytics-Translated-to-9-More-Languages-251747.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-New-Google-Analytics-Translated-to-9-More-Languages-251747.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-17-Comes-with-Malicious-File-Scanning-Physic-Website-Preloading-251720.shtml Google Chrome 17 is here, in the stable channel. After several weeks in the beta channel and in the dev channel, the latest and greatest Chrome is available to everyone. Google Chrome 17 comes with two notable features, as far as Google is concerned, page preloading and download scanning for malicious files.
read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:11:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-17-Comes-with-Malicious-File-Scanning-Physic-Website-Preloading-251720.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-17-Comes-with-Malicious-File-Scanning-Physic-Website-Preloading-251720.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Drive-Close-to-Launch-251702.shtml We've been hearing about Google Drive, the cloud file hosting and sharing service from Google for a while now. There have been plenty of clues and hints and Drive was most definitely coming. But now we have another confirmation, the Wall Street Journal is saying that Drive is on its way, in the coming weeks or months, and that it's got Dropbox as its main target.read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:33:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Drive-Close-to-Launch-251702.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Drive-Close-to-Launch-251702.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-for-Android-Doesn-t-Support-Flash-and-It-Never-Will-251590.shtml Google Chrome for Android comes with plenty of features. It's got the WebKit engine from the desktop Chrome and the V8 JavaScript engine as well, optimized for ARM processors. One thing that it hasn't got though is support for Adobe Flash.

And it's never going to get it either, since Adobe made it very clear that it will no... (read more)]]> Wed, 8 Feb 2012 20:11:01 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-for-Android-Doesn-t-Support-Flash-and-It-Never-Will-251590.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-for-Android-Doesn-t-Support-Flash-and-It-Never-Will-251590.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Docs-Adds-Paragraph-Styles-New-Chart-Options-251622.shtml It may not have seemed like it, but January was a busy month for the Docs team. Several new features have been introduced, from the hard to miss customizable paragraph styles to more subtle changes such as progress bars for Google Sites uploads.

Earlier this week, the Google Docs document editor got a much welcomed update, cu... (read more)]]> Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Docs-Adds-Paragraph-Styles-New-Chart-Options-251622.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Docs-Adds-Paragraph-Styles-New-Chart-Options-251622.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-s-Single-Sign-in-System-BrowserID-Gets-Greatly-Simplified-Login-Method-251579.shtml Mozilla is toiling away at BrowserID, its attempt at a decentralized identity and login system. It has now announced a major step forward, other entities can now be identity providers, helping a great deal with the "decentralized" part.

"Last week we pushed out a BrowserID feature that gets us closer to ... (read more)]]> Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:31:01 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-s-Single-Sign-in-System-BrowserID-Gets-Greatly-Simplified-Login-Method-251579.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-s-Single-Sign-in-System-BrowserID-Gets-Greatly-Simplified-Login-Method-251579.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Blocking-Google-Users-Is-Now-Easier-than-Ever-251542.shtml Google+ is still relatively small, compared to Facebook, but it's growing. And it already has close to one hundred million registered users. You can imagine then that some of them may not post the best quality comments and some may be out right spammers.

Even if they're not spammers, they may be annoying enough to you that you want thei... (read more)]]> Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:30:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Blocking-Google-Users-Is-Now-Easier-than-Ever-251542.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Blocking-Google-Users-Is-Now-Easier-than-Ever-251542.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-for-Android-Under-the-Hood-Multi-Process-HTML5-V8-But-No-WebGL-or-Sandboxing-251491.shtml Google Chrome for Android may differ a lot from the desktop version, but it's got enough in common to warrant the name. Chrome for Android is a big upgrade over the regular Android browser and it's not all in how it looks.

Under the hood, Chrome for Android has plenty to show for itself. The browser... (read more)]]> Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:01:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-for-Android-Under-the-Hood-Multi-Process-HTML5-V8-But-No-WebGL-or-Sandboxing-251491.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-for-Android-Under-the-Hood-Multi-Process-HTML5-V8-But-No-WebGL-or-Sandboxing-251491.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/23-Cities-Updated-with-High-Resolution-Bird-s-Eye-Imagery-in-Google-Maps-251480.shtml Google has updated aerial imagery for 23 cities in Google Maps. People in 14 US cities and 9 international ones can now explore their home towns from a bird's eye perspective.

Aerial imagery is a step up from satellite imagery that, while fairly detailed, can't go too close to the ground. What's more, aerial i... (read more)]]> Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:20:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/23-Cities-Updated-with-High-Resolution-Bird-s-Eye-Imagery-in-Google-Maps-251480.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/23-Cities-Updated-with-High-Resolution-Bird-s-Eye-Imagery-in-Google-Maps-251480.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-s-New-Google-Inspired-Photo-Viewer-Is-Available-to-Everyone-251461.shtml
Comments have been moved to the right, the background now fades to black rather than to white and the photos are better emphasized.

That said, some still find it inferior to the Google+ photo viewer, mostly because it still doesn't show photos as large as the G... (read more)]]> Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:25:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-s-New-Google-Inspired-Photo-Viewer-Is-Available-to-Everyone-251461.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-s-New-Google-Inspired-Photo-Viewer-Is-Available-to-Everyone-251461.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-for-Android-Here-s-What-You-Need-to-Know-251419.shtml Chrome for Android has finally landed. It's a pretty big project and it meant rewriting and adapting most of the existing Google Chrome code to the Android platform and the special requirements of mobile devices.

While the Android browser already shared several components with Chrome, they were different beasts.

Even the ... (read more)]]> Wed, 8 Feb 2012 10:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-for-Android-Here-s-What-You-Need-to-Know-251419.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-for-Android-Here-s-What-You-Need-to-Know-251419.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Enable-quot-Smooth-Scrolling-quot-in-Firefox-for-Greatly-Enhanced-Scrolling-Animations-251280.shtml The latest Firefox 12 Aurora comes with one small tweak that may even go unnoticed, but it is going to make a lot of difference for a lot of users. Firefox 12 comes with Smooth Scrolling enabled by default.

The technology has been built into Firefox for a long time now, but it has been buried awa... (read more)]]> Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:31:02 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Enable-quot-Smooth-Scrolling-quot-in-Firefox-for-Greatly-Enhanced-Scrolling-Animations-251280.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Enable-quot-Smooth-Scrolling-quot-in-Firefox-for-Greatly-Enhanced-Scrolling-Animations-251280.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Starts-Digging-on-Gigabit-Fiber-to-Home-Project-251256.shtml Slower than planned, Google is finally starting to get to work on its ambitious gigabit fiber project. A couple of years ago, Google announced that it would be building a fast gigabit network in one or more locations in the US to test new technologies and lower the price of deploying such connections for everyone.

But Google wa... (read more)]]> Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:01:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Starts-Digging-on-Gigabit-Fiber-to-Home-Project-251256.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Starts-Digging-on-Gigabit-Fiber-to-Home-Project-251256.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Adobe-Debuts-Secure-Sandboxed-Flash-Player-for-Firefox-251226.shtml Security-conscious Firefox users have something to be glad about, there is now a sandboxed Flash Player plugin for their browser. This new plugin isolates web content from the rest of the system, greatly limiting the potential danger of any malicious Flash file.

A similar feature had been available for Google Chrome users for m... (read more)]]> Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Adobe-Debuts-Secure-Sandboxed-Flash-Player-for-Firefox-251226.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/Adobe-Debuts-Secure-Sandboxed-Flash-Player-for-Firefox-251226.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/There-s-Now-a-Google-Developers-Page-Even-If-There-Aren-t-Many-Developers-251196.shtml Google is extending its developer relations program for Google+ with the new Google+ Developers page. The idea is to give developers a place to ask questions and stay informed on the very platform they use.

Of course, the big problem with the Google+ platform is that there isn't one, but Google wants to take ... (read more)]]> Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:01:01 GMT Softpedia News - Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/There-s-Now-a-Google-Developers-Page-Even-If-There-Aren-t-Many-Developers-251196.shtml Webmaster http://news.softpedia.com/news/There-s-Now-a-Google-Developers-Page-Even-If-There-Aren-t-Many-Developers-251196.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni)