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Google last week refreshed Chrome, upgrading it to version 75 by patching 42 security vulnerabilities and adding a basic “reader” view that rips ads and nonessential non-text content from pages. The company paid out $9,000 – only a third the amount of the last cycle – in bug bounties to …

Chrome in May bounced back from a massive April decline to reach a record user share of nearly 68%, sending rivals’ shares tumbling. As Computerworld pointed out a month ago when reporting on Chrome’s record loss during April, short-term browser movements often lead nowhere. Such was the case when Chrome …

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Making its mark as a Canberra-based web development company in 2001, Link Digital began moving towards open data services about five years ago, based on CKAN, Drupal and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This soon led to picking up contract work for data.gov.au and similar work in other jurisdictions. Link Digital …

Now that Google Stadia and Microsoft XCloud have been unveiled at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, it’s safe to say cloud gaming has arrived, promising a future where content will be streamed to smartphones over high-speed Wi-Fi and 5G. But if these services are to flourish, something else must die: …

Vivaldi’s latest iteration of its eponymous web browser has added even more drag-and-drop flexibility, allowing you to rearrange tabs and icons (mostly) to your heart’s content. The Chromium-based Vivaldi officially released version 2.4 of the browser on Wednesday, emphasizing the way in which users can adjust the visual and navigation …

For the first time, more than half of the world’s population of nearly 8 billion will be using the internet by the end of 2018, the United Nations telecommunications agency announced on Friday.

It's unlikely you'll see these same amazing speeds when 5G eventually rolls out, though you'll hopefully see a dramatic speed boost, regardless.

We already knew that 2019 was going to be the year that the first 5G phones became available for purchase, but even before the calendar turns, the ball is already starting to roll. Samsung and Verizon announced Monday that they will be partnering to deliver a 5G phone in the first half …

Hints appeared last week that Microsoft may be close to offering multi-session remote desktop access to Windows 10 Enterprise as an alternative to, and complement of, Windows Server. The appearance of “Windows 10 Enterprise for Remote Sessions” as an installation option was noticed by Tero Alhonen, of Svenska Handelsbanken AB, …

Will Windows customers prefer to use Windows apps over their traditional games and utilities? With Windows 10's S mode, Microsoft is betting they will.

Microsoft's mobile Edge browser and Microsoft Launcher go together like peanut butter and jelly.