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Maybe, maybe not -- it all depends on how you slice the data, who you ask and when. December 1, 2011 By Sean Michael Kerner When Google Chrome first debuted in 2008, there was some speculation about whether or not the new browser would surpass Mozilla Firefox. Fast forward three years of development and over 16 Chrome releases, and behold: The day that Chrome is more popular than Firefox might just be here today. According to analytics firm StatCounter, Chrome passed Firefox for global market...

The United Nations Development Programme says it is "in the process of validating this claim" Continue reading the main story Related Stories Cyber plan 'to protect UK online' FBI downplays water supply 'hack' Hackers attack child porn sites A group of hackers has posted more than 100 email addresses and login details which it claimed to have extracted from the United Nations. Many of the emails involved appear to belong to members of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The...

By Laurie Segall @CNNMoneyTechNovember 29, 2011: 8:37 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's a tough economy out there, but there's at least one skill in high demand: programming. Industry veterans insist that almost anyone can master the basics of software coding. Now, a pair of entrepreneurs have teamed up to test that idea with a company called Codecademy, which aims to make learning to program simple and fun. "Coding is going to be the literacy of the 21st Century, and we think we have the easiest...

By Kenneth Hess (Send Email) November 27, 2011 Out of control document management plagues businesses of every dimension. Duplicate documents, multiple file formats, poor filing practices, buried files, and files spread far and wide in multiple repositories are some of the common problems facing users looking for documents both living and archived. The answer is to index those documents into a central database. But, how do you efficiently index thousands or perhaps millions of documents in such...

By Rafe Needleman, CNET News on November 24, 2011 (4 days ago) commentary Did Apple kick the ball into its own goal with its campaign against Flash? By forcing Web developers, and ultimately Adobe, out of the Flash business, Apple made HTML5 apps better. That's good for Safari users, but it's also good for users on other Web platforms, like Android. If there's a truly good universal platform for online apps, it stands to reason that the smart developer will build apps for it, since this...

By Annalyn Censky @CNNMoneyNovember 25, 2011: 8:21 AM ET As soon as the doors opened at midnight for Black Friday, Best Buy shoppers rushed for doorbuster deals on LCD TVs. WOODLAND PARK, N.J. (CNNMoney) -- Doorbuster deals on LCD televisions drew crowds of Black Friday shoppers to big box stores on Thanksgiving evening. And for Isabel Baez, the wait outside a Best Buy (BBY, Fortune 500) in northern New Jersey, started long earlier. At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, to be exact. "I had my tent,...

Merck KGaA wants to know why a rival has content on a Facebook page it thought it "owned" Continue reading the main story Related Stories 3.74 degrees of online separation How Facebook decides what to ban Merck cuts 2011 profit forecast The German drugmaker Merck KGaA has begun legal action against Facebook after discovering what its lawyer described as the "the apparent takeover of its Facebook page". The webpage is being used by the German firm's US rival Merck & Co. Merck...

By ROY FURCHGOTT All summer long, flowers are the stars of nature photography, but with autumn, the trees get their turn. What were homogenous clumps of green all summer are suddenly a riot of color. Best of all, you don’t need any special equipment to capture the flaming hues of the season. But there are techniques to make your shots as bright and varied as the leaves themselves. Sean Arbabi, author of “The Complete Guide to Nature Photography,” offered tips for fledgling foliage fans. Sean...

Google develops many products, not all of which are hits with the public Continue reading the main story Related Stories Strong reception for Google Wave Google pulls the plug on Wave Google unveils online music store Google has announced that it is dropping seven more products in an effort to simplify its range of services. The out-of-season "spring clean" brings an end to services including Google Wave, Knol and Google Gears. It is the third time that the US firm has announced...

By Juliet Kemp on Monday, November 21st, 2011 in Technical | Related Software Packages: Perl, Python, Ruby, Vim, vimscript | Keywords: Scripting, Tips & Tricks 0digg In my last article, I looked at some of the ways in which you can use Vimscript, Vim‘s built-in scripting language, to set up that text editor to do exactly what you want it to. Apparently you liked what you saw and asked for more, so here are some additional tips and tricks to help you get Vim to jump through the hoops of your...

Advocacy groups want Facebook to provide more detail about why it removed the pages Continue reading the main story Related Stories Facebook 'rape' page is to stay How Facebook decides what to ban Man jailed for race-hate messages Facebook has removed several rape joke pages from its social network. The group pages, which included "You know she's playing hard to get when you're chasing her down an alleyway" had been criticised by victim support groups. The network said: "There...

Here are the best Adobe Photoshop alternatives which you can use for basic and professional editing. Not Everyone can afford Adobe Photoshop, so here i have compiled the best list of open-source alternatives. 1. Gimp Gimp is probably the most feature rich and well known open source Photoshop alternative that will not make you feel broke. Photoshop may be a bit ahead in terms of bleeding edge features, but most of what Photoshop is capable of can be done somehow in Gimp. GIMP is cross...

Published October 26, 2011 | FoxNews.com AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick A Facebook user edits privacy settings. Privacy watchdogs began an on-site investigation Tuesday of Facebook's regional office in Ireland, FoxNews.com has learned, following sensational accusations that the company is creating extensive "shadow profiles" of non-users. The eye-popping assertion came in a complaint filed in August by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner, which alleges...

By Tim Weber Business editor, BBC News website, at Nokia World Nokia unveiled its new Lumia phones at a London event Continue reading the main story Related Stories Nokia jumps off burning platform Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 handset: Is it enough? Nokia Windows Phone 7: reaction Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has launched two new smartphones based on Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7.5 operating system. The Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 mark the beginning of Nokia's fightback...

By J.A. Watson, 23 October, 2011 17:59 About this blog Jamie's Mostly Linux Stuff Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, assorted bits of hardware new and old, and occasionally Windows XP/Vista/7.   Somehow, I had managed to overlook the release of a new base image for PCLinuxOS. It might have been the recent very bad news for the developers and contributors, or it might have been my own inattentiveness. But whatever the reason, I don't...