Though chrome is not as full featured as its competitors by date, its spawning of multiple processes when you launch new tabs is an awesome step towards browsing speed.  I’ve heard people grouching who previously supported Firefox, saying that it seemed slower, bloated and resource hog after the chromes release. I do all my day [...]

It was the big social media story of the week; on Thursday, Twitter went down due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. And while Twitter was the most visible target, Facebook, Google, and others were also under fire due to a geopolitical attack against one man.

Now that Yahoo has ceded its search business to Microsoft, it would be easy to call CEO Carol Bartz’s comment to The New York Times that “Yahoo never was a search company” a piece of revisionist history.

A Google engineer recently posted a message on the Chromium development board stating that his team would be implementing a synchronization service into Chrome’s open-source progenitor as early as this week. What’s different about Chrome’s sync service? It uses a “push” service, through Google Talk protocols, to instantly move bookmarks, settings, and other user data [...]