Interact Computers Official Blog

Google this week issued patches for five vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser, including three rated ‘high.’

Google on Thursday said it will pick up Chrome’s release pace by issuing a new version of the browser about every six weeks.

An online privacy bill introduced in the U.S. Congress this week received mixed reviews at a subcommittee hearing Thursday, with representatives of two trade groups saying the bill would put unnecessary regulations on the Internet advertising industry.

Firefox 4’s first beta is 27% faster than Mozilla’s more stable browser, Firefox 3.6.6, but still lags behind rivals including Chrome, Opera and Safari, benchmark tests show.

A Pew Research Center study this spring found that low-income groups in the U.S. are the fastest growing users of Wireless Internet technologies.

Net Market Share’s recent Web browser statistics show Internet Explorer remaining the most popular, with 60 percent of the market share, which includes versions 6, 7, and 8. Firefox 3.6 comes in second at 24 percent, and Google’s Chrome 5.0 is holding third place at 7 percent. It appears that Internet Explorer has a huge lead, but look out Microsoft, open-source alternatives are nipping at your heels.

The Android Army is passing around the collection bucket, encouraging its comrades to buy more Android Apps.

Google Chrome is now the third-most-popular browser in the U.S., behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox, but ahead of Apple’s Safari for the first time, according to a study by Web analytics company StatCounter.

German privacy regulators have welcomed a proposal to extend laws protecting Germans’ right to privacy to cover use of their own image and that of their homes in online street panoramas, the Hamburg privacy regulator said Monday.

Google’s Chrome has now integrated Adobe’s Flash directly into the browser. Chrome 5.0.376.86 was released over Google’s Stable channel and is now available to download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The update also includes five bug fixes, including two relevant to video handling.