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Everyone always wants the best browser out there, and I’m not here to just say yeah yeah Firefox is the best blah blah blah, I’ve used firefox for many years and I say it is an excellent browser, but lately I’ve grown a liking to Apple’s Safari 4 which I have to say is neat but lacks features, but I don’t really care as long as I have two things that work on it: Read the rest of this entry »

Google is planning to release Google Wave, its ambitious new IM/Email/Wiki hybrid in September. Invites for 100,000 users will be made available on September 30 via wave.google.com. It’s likely that Google Wave will launch with a limited invitation system similar to the one Gmail started out with way back when. Read the rest of this entry »

Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don’t know exactly what they’re looking for.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. Read the rest of this entry »

In case you did not know, there were something like 40,000 new computer security threats created last year, targeted overwhelmingly at Windows users.

But as long as there have been viruses there have been companies who make their money by protecting computers from them.

This is very big business; $4bn (£2.97bn) was spent on virus protection last year. Given those figures people still leave their computers open to attack, in fact some 50% of PCs do not have protection. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has announced that its Apps Suite, which includes the likes of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk, is finally set to shed its beta label.

Gmail in particular has carried its beta tag for more than five years, and it has been a bit of a head scratcher as to why seemingly finished programs have carried on as “betas” for so long.

While Google explains that the four applications have been running at or above the standards of other non-beta software for a while, they have never quite managed to drop their beta tag – until today.
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