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<title>Video: Google Apps adoption rates up</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9908</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:55:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9908</guid>
<description><![CDATA[At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun   s OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly gaining on Microsoft Office. ]]>
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<title>EIC Podcast: Google Chrome; Apple; Dell and Salesforce.com</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9902</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:03:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9902</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google's Chrome browser, Apple's iPod event next week and my theory that Dell and Salesforce.com should merge. On Google's Chrome browser we riffed on the importance of the launch, how it's really a battle over cookie files and how Mozilla's Firefox browser may take a hit. You can find all the Chrome coverage you can digest on ZDNet and News.com. The other main event coming up is Apple's iPod event. Apple sent out the invite for its Sept. 9 event where it's widely expected that new iPods are on the way. The sideshow, however, will be on Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his appearance following neverending rumors about his health. And finally we ... ]]>
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<title>Video: Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9901</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:42:12 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9901</guid>
<description><![CDATA[At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, touts interface features for the company's Chrome browser. He also does a performance benchmark test comparing the new browser to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. More Office 2.0 coverage: Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List Office 2.0 Conference day one ]]>
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<title>Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1234</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:15:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paul Murphy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1234</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As millions of web developers and others are now discovering, IE8 invokes "security" to break, or at least red tab, a lot of existing web and investigative technology -making it harder, for example, for companies like google (and zdnet) to accurately count page reads while teaching users, as Vista itself does, to ignore security related warnings. In the long term web site operators will simply have to adapt to IE8, but in the short term there'll be the usual handwringing, palliative Microsoft announcements, and vociferous longing for practical alternatives. One of the those is, of course, Firefox - and we can expect others like Opera, Safari, and Konqueror to grow in market share too, but the most recent entry from Google ... ]]>
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<title>Who wins with Google Chrome</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2858</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:04:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dana Blankenhorn</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2858</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The question of who wins with Google Chrome is wrong. The real question should be what wins. Javascript wins. If Google Chrome wins wide adoption, or the technologies within it win wide adoption, Javascript becomes a bigger technology. Technologies which compete with it lose. Web applications win. If Google Chrome wins wide adoption, making software-heavy pages easier to run (with multiple tabs), then anyone  building a Web application wins, and things which compete with them lose. Good code wins. If Google Chrome wins wide adoption, and users can see which windows are hosing them (without losing all their tabs in the process) then sites running good code win, and those which don't lose. Webkit wins. If Google Chrome, based on a Webkit rendering engine, wins wide adoption, rendering engines ... ]]>
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<title>Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopper</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=477</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:03:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dennis Howlett</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=477</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When I said that CXO's wouldn't give Google Chrome a nanosecond's thought, I under-estimated. They'll give it about five seconds and then pass straight to the corporate legal department. Why? EULA Clause 11.1: You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked ... ]]>
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<title>Google Chrome ... the day after</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2528</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:58:57 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Adrian Kingsley-Hughes</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2528</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So, Google Chrome has been around for a few hours. What effect has it had on the Internet so far? Well, let's begin by looking at market share. I've been watching data from two sites which have been tracking google Chrome market share and the results so far are quite interesting. Here's the data from NetApplications: Based on NetApplications data, Google Chrome market share peaked at 1.48%, well above the August market share for Opera. Another site collecting data is GetClicky, and this site currently shows Chrome having a global market share of 2.74%, again, well above that of Opera. It's too early to draw any meaningful conclusions from this data, but the fact that Google Chrome managed to beat Opera's market share in a ... ]]>
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<title>DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabs</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1847</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:19:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dancho Danchev</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1847</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now? While Google's Chrome team is cheering, Rishi Narang from Evil Fingers is typing and releasing a proof of concept for a denial of service vulnerability that is successfully crashing the Chrome browser with all tabs. According to Narang's advisory : "An issue exists in how chrome behaves with undefined-handlers in chrome.dll version 0.2.149.27. A crash can result without user interaction. When a user is made to visit a malicious link, which has an undefined handler followed by a 'special' character, the chrome crashes with a Google Chrome message window "Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?". It crashes on "int 3" at 0x01002FF3 as an exception/trap, followed by "POP EBP" instruction when pointed out ... ]]>
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<title>Chrome is 42x faster than IE7, 9x faster than FF3</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=649</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:10:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ed Burnette</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=649</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've been testing the new Google Chrome browser and one thing's for sure: they weren't kidding about great JavaScript performance in this beta. Check out these numbers I got from running Google's V8 benchmark suite (higher is better): IE7: 30 FF3.0.1: 131 Chrome Beta 1: 1279.6 That's a whopping 42.6 times improvement over IE7, and 9.7 times over FireFox 3. Keep in mind that these benchmarks were chosen by the team that wrote Chrome's JavaScript engine (V8). Other benchmarks show a lesser, but still significant, improvement. Unlike Adobe's Tamarin engine, which is used in Flash and will appear in a future version of FireFox, V8 (see project page) does not rely on static typing to achieve its excellent performance. It dynamically figures out what data ... ]]>
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<title>Mozilla CEO: No worries about Google Chrome</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2853</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:55:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paula Rooney</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2853</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mozilla CEO John Lilly said he has no worries about Google jumping into the open source browser market. In a blog posted on September 1 before the beta release of Google's Chrome yesterday, Lilly noted that Mozilla's Firefox has plenty of competition and reminded the public that the foundation's primary motive is to keep the web open. "As much as anything else, it   ll mean there   s another interesting browser that users can choose. With IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc     there   s been competition for a while now, and this increases that. So it means that more than ever, we need to build software that people care about and love. Firefox is good now, and will keep on getting better," Lilly wrote. "Competition often ... ]]>
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<title>Google Chrome: The five best new features</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9878</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:31:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jason Hiner</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9878</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google launched the first beta version of its Chrome Web browser on Tuesday after two years of development. Only the Microsoft Windows version has been released, but Google promised Mac and Linux versions would soon follow. We immediately started kicking the tires and put together a photo gallery and a quick list of the five best new features you'll find in Google Chrome. See the full screen shot gallery First look: Google Chrome When I heard that Google was officially going to launch its own Web browser my first thought was, "Great, that's just what we need, another Web browser." After seeing Google's press conference and getting a first look at Chrome, I'm starting to warm up to the idea. I will ... ]]>
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<title>What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9241</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:18:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jason Perlow</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9241</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So during lunchtime today I got to play with Chrome a bit. It's got a nice clean implementation, and it's fast. Sure, it doesn't do everything that either Firefox or Internet Explorer does yet, but hey, it's a beta. I like it. The burning question a lot of analysts and my ZDNet comrades may have, however, is why do we need another browser? I mean both Internet Explorer and Firefox are robust, right? And Safari and Konqueror are perfectly good browser platforms too. I think we all know what the answer is, but we're afraid to say it -- Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend. Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below ... ]]>
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<title>Security-wise, Google Chrome is (potentially very) Good</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1844</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:11:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Adam O'Donnell</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1844</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Security bloggers are already commenting on Google's slightly premature "Chrome" browser leak. Built on top of the Apple sponsored WebKit engine, the browser offers several security features that we have only seen so far in the beta releases of IE8. The most interesting feature discussed so far is the strict memory separation afforded by the technology, where each web application will operate in its own memory space with its own virtual machine for code execution. Keep in mind that modern browsers are practically primitive operating systems unto themselves. They handle asynchronous network traffic, user input, data rendering, and code execution. Modern operating systems, say, anything created in the past 25 years, implement dozens of technologies that allow for the safe execution ... ]]>
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<title>Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:05:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ryan Naraine</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities -- a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year's Black Hat conference -- to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser. Raff has cooked up a harmless demo of the attack in action, showing how a Google Chrome users can be lured into downloading and launching a JAR (Java Archive) file that gets executed without warning. [ SEE: Google Chrome, the security tidbits ] In the proof-of-concept, Raff's code shows how a malicious hacker can use a ... ]]>
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<title>Will Google Chrome be the Android's mobile browser?</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=1410</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:01:05 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Matthew Miller</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=1410</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The talk of the internet today is the launch and availability of the new Google Chrome web browser. As a mobile enthusiast, I immediately asked myself if it is possible that the Chrome browser would be coming to mobile platforms and after reading that the new Chrome browser is based on the WebKit open source project like the Nokia S60 and Apple iPhone browsers I think it is very possible that it will be coming to the mobile space and may actually be the browser that we see launched on the Google Android devices in the next month or two. We know that the Google Android, aka Open Handset Alliance, browser is also an open source browser based on WebKit, ... ]]>
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<title>Google Chrome is insanely fast ... faster than Firefox 3.0</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2507</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:59:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Adrian Kingsley-Hughes</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2507</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Chrome is fast ... insanely fast ... faster than Firefox 3.0. Here's Chrome vs. Firefox 3.0.1 vs IE7 vs. IE8b2 in a head-to-head shootout running the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark. Here Google Chrome completed the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark in a average of 1,791 milliseconds, nearly half the time that Firefox 3.0.1 took to complete the test. In this test Google Chrome absolutely blows away IE. UPDATED Let's see how the browsers compare to each other when tested using the V8 benchmark suite. This suite carried out five tests: Richards OS kernel simulation benchmark, originally written in BCPL by Martin Richards (539 lines). DeltaBlue One-way constraint solver, originally written in Smalltalk by John Maloney and Mario Wolczko (880 lines). Crypto Encryption and decryption benchmark based on code by Tom Wu (1689 ... ]]>
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<title>Google Chrome bats 1-for-3 for me</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9868</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:44:47 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9868</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Chrome seems like a snazzy browser but it won't be my everyday browser until a few items fall in line. My test for Chrome and determining whether to use it was relatively simple. I do three things on my browser every day: I watch streaming market data, listen to Sirius and consume a bunch of company conference calls. If a browser can't do those three things it's not even considered to be an everyday browser for me. Granted, some of the Chrome test drive problems may be that the target companies are misfiring when they connect with Google's browser, but these things work in Firefox. Here were my three tests, which may not apply to you at all. You should use your ... ]]>
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<title>First look at Google Chrome</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2503</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:41:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Adrian Kingsley-Hughes</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2503</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Google inadvertently disclosed that it was planning to release a browser called Chrome when the Google Blogoscoped blog was sent (and it seems received a couple of days early) a comic book outlining some of the browsers new features. Today we get to see the browser first-hand. UPDATE: How does Google Chrome stack up against Firefox 3.0 and IE when it comes to the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark? Full Google Chrome gallery here Installation Installation of Google Chrome was a snap. The setup application was under half a megabyte and that then downloaded the rest of the applications - measuring in at some 7MB. Installation took a few seconds and after importing data from your current default browser Google Chrome is ready to go! [poll=344] Tab Page Here's ... ]]>
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<title>LIVE: Google Chrome Press Conference</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9858</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:21:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sam Diaz</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9858</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'm here at the Googleplex for a press conference to announce the new Google browser, called Chrome. The service will go live at 12 Noon PT today and is available for Windows Vista and XP - for now. Mac and Linux versions are coming soon. It will launch in 122 countries and 43 languages. It is also fully open-source. (Download it here.) The presentation begins with an explanation of Chrome, acknowledging that it's a complex product that is needed in an age when the Web has also become more complex. Example: Google Maps and add-on features like Street View. Google says the guts of the browser - the core infrastructure of it - is still very much the same as it ... ]]>
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<title>Google Chrome: Steal this browser</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=646</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:18:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ed Burnette</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=646</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google announced a new web browser today called Chrome. Analysts who wonder if this spells "doom" for Firefox, or if it's an "IE killer" are missing the point. Like Gears, Chrome is Google's latest attempt to lead by example, and push the envelope of the web experience. [ Read: Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud ] First of all, Chrome is a new browser but not a new rendering engine. What's the difference? A rendering engine just draws words and graphics to a rectangle on the screen. A web browser is all the stuff around that rectangle including menus, tabs, favorites, searching, and so forth. Rendering engines are hard, quirky, and tedious, so for Chrome Google picked the WebKit ... ]]>
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