The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has been granted authority by the Court of Appeal to launch a probe of Apple’s Safari mobile…
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Mac shipments surge 10.3% as PC market craters
Apple’s Mac shipments surged 10.3%, even as worldwide PC shipments declined 13.4% year over year during the second quarter of 2023…
Apple appeals investigation by UK competition watchdog
Apple as filed an appeal against an investigation by Britain’s competition watchdog into the dominance of its mobile browsers in the cloud…
UK investigates Apple’s and Google’s mobile browser dominance
The UK’s competition watchdog on Tuesday launched an investigation into the dominance of Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome…
Antitrust regulators focus on Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome web browsers
Of late, regulators and rivals are again questioning whether web browsers, especially Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome, are too tightly…
Apple and Google face UK probe over mobile browsers and cloud gaming
The UK Competition and Markets Authority is planning an investigation into Apple’s and Alphabet-parent Google’s market power in…
Apple’s Safari tops North America mobile browser market with 50% share
Apple’s Safari Browser commands the North American mobile browser market with a market share of 50%. Its closest challenger Google Chrome…
Warning: Google’s Chrome browser has been successfully hacked, update ASAP
Google’s fan-destroying, RAM-eating Chrome browser has been successfully hacked and users are advised to update ASAP…
Apple FaceTime calls will allow Android, Windows users to join later this year
Apple announced that anyone — including those who settle for Android and Windows devices — will soon be able to join FaceTime calls which…
Google looks to make Chrome browser for Mac less of a pig
Want to test your Mac’s fans (if your Mac has fans)? Download and launch Google’s Chrome browser for Mac and open a tab or two…
It’s the end of cookies, but targeted online ads aren’t going anywhere
Following Apple’s lead, as usual, Google said this week that it will eliminate its use of third-party cookies over the next year, ending…
How advertisers will target you after the death of browser cookies
Next year, Alphabet Inc’s Google will follow Apple’s lead, natch, and phase out browser cookies in its Chrome browser…
WSJ: Quit Google’s Chrome. Safari and Edge are just better browsers
As sufferers of Google’s Chrome know very well, it’s a battery hog that causes your computer’s processor to work so hard it’s sometimes difficult to…
Apple makes it easier to port Google Chrome extensions to Safari
Apple is adding support for web extensions which is going to make it much easier for developers to port existing extensions from Chrome, Firefox or Edge…
Apple TV+ is not limited to Apple devices
Apple’s forthcoming original streaming content service, Apple TV+, is not limited to Apple devices…
Apple WebKit bugs on iOS and macOS allowed 1 billion rogue popup ads on websites
More than a billion scam popup ads were served thanks to bugs in Apple’s WebKit and the open-source Blink frameworks…
iPhone users warned to update as 1.1 billion eGobbler malvertising attack is confirmed
eGobbler, the prolific threat actor behind malvertising campaigns with a history of compromising adverts in their hundreds of millions in a matter of hours…
Google still plans to cripple ad-blocking in Chrome, but enterprises will be exempt
Google has clarified proposed changes to the Chrome browser that some developers fear will cripple ad blockers…
Is Google purposefully breaking Microsoft, Apple browsers on its websites?
In what can only be described as painfully ironic, Microsoft engineers are seemingly convinced…
Mozilla’s Firefox 60 is the world’s first browser to give you password-free logins
Mozilla has released Firefox 60 with support for a new option to sign in to websites without using a password…
Amazon’s Alexa is randomly laughing and nobody knows why
Some Alexa users may feel like they’ve been dropped into a science fiction story about an artificial intelligence gone awry…
Google Home Mini spies on everything reviewer said 24/7, transmits recordings to Google’s servers
It was waking up thousands of times a day, recording, then sending those recordings to Google…
37,000 users unwittingly installed a malicious Chrome web browser extension from Google’s Web Store
A fraudulent browser extension was downloaded by 37,000 Chrome users after it sneaked past Google’s Web Store vetting processes…
How malicious plugins can compromise your Mac
I cannot remember a time in which my browsers did not have a few plug-ins installed…
Google Chrome under attack: Have you used one of these hijacked extensions?
Attackers have been phishing developers to compromise Chrome extensions to spread…
Mossberg: What’s up with Firefox, the browser that time forgot?
Until about five years ago, techies and others who wanted a speedier, extensible…
Google Chrome dethrones beleaguered Microsoft’s Internet Explorer
Plus, people are abandoning beleaguered Microsoft’s Edge shortly after trying it…
And, the best Mac web browser is…
If you want the fastest browser then the browser you should be using on your Mac is Safari…
Alphabet’s Google to merge Chrome OS Android
Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system for personal computers into its Android mobile operating system…
You’re stupid if you don’t use Safari on your MacBook
If you haven’t switched from Chrome or Firefox to Safari yet…
A Mac browser you don’t use might be the browser you want to use more
Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple’s Safari…
Living with Apple’s Safari
For many of us Apple’s Safari is our default web browser…
All major browsers hacked in Pwn2Own contest; hacker gets $225,000 in prize money
Chrome, Firefox, Explorer, Safari were all hacked…
Chinese hacker cracks Safari, wins $40,000, praises Apple’s security
The security in OS X is higher than other operating systems…
Google has picked Microsoft’s low-hanging fruit
Microsoft may be nearing a free Windows 8 release if recent rumors are true…
Google’s Chromebook nabs 0.2% Web traffic share in North Amercia
Devices running Google’s Linux-based Chrome OS are showing very modest usage share…
Google brings Google Now notifications to Chrome beta for Mac desktop users
It’s been a long time coming but Google Now is finally…
What’s the best Mac Web browser?
Most Mac users are familiar with Apple’s distinctive Safari web browser…
Exploit for Google’s Chrome browser can secretly listen to oblivious users
Google has been pushing hard to incorporate speech recognition…
Why does Google’s Chrome browser ask for your Mac Keychain password?
Every time I start up Chrome, it pesters me for access to my Mac’s Keychain…
Gartner: 1.1 billion Android devices to ship in 2014
Worldwide combined shipments of devices (PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones) are projected to reach 2.5 billion units in 2014…
Google goes offline with pseudo-native Chrome Apps for Mac
Google yesterday launched its new packaged apps, dubbed ‘Chrome Apps,’ for the Mac…
