Google has moved to calm privacy concerns, with plans to halve the time it keeps users' web search data on record following pressure from European regulators.BBC NEWS | Technology | Google looks to the next 10 years
The company said on its official blog it was reducing the amount of time it keeps the search data associated with a user's unique internet address to nine months from 18 months currently.
After nine months search data would be disassociated with internet protocol addresses. The company did not say when the measure would take effect.
Microsoft retain search logs for 18 months while Yahoo! kept such information for 13 months.
Don't be evilGoogle Chrome: Is there anything under the hood? - Network World
It was 10 years ago this month that Larry Page and Sergey Brin formed Google Inc to "organise all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" and do it better than anyone else.
The bottom line — it's fast, very fast. However, throwing huge factors of performance improvement around is likely more for headlines and less related to what you see yourself.The WebKit Open Source Project
Interestingly, though, is one last aspect of Chrome that has yet to be mentioned, how it addresses the true slow part of the Web — the network. Sure JavaScript is slow, but it is nothing compared to round-tripping to the server. If you look closely at Chrome there is real goodness here. First, simple DNS resolution caching of common sites and pre-fetching is on by default in Chrome.And in terms of network plumbing, we found a very interesting feature in Chrome — native bzip2 compression. While gzip-based HTTP compression has been around for quite some time, bzip2 compression is much better in terms of size reduction for common text formats like HTML, CSS and very importantly JavaScript.With the rise of very JavaScript-heavy sites this is going to be a welcome improvement. The bad news though is that so far no Web servers are dishing out bzip2-based data, save Lighttpd.
In the final analysis Google Chrome certainly gets the plumbing right, and this is just the start. While its end-user features are still being developed it is certainly clear that, as an engine, it provides a lot of horsepower for the future of Web development.
WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60's S60 WebKit development.Nokia's Comes With Music won't worry Apple... yet
Comes With Music offers a compelling proposition: buy a phone, get free music downloads for a year. Carphone Warehouse will be the exclusive UK provider of Comes With Music handsets for now, and the initial CWM device will be Nokia's 5310 handset. Buyers receive "free" access to millions of tracks out of Nokia's own music store for 12 months.BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC iPlayer offered on Nokia N96
The really interesting bit about Comes With Music is that users get to keep downloaded tracks after the 12-month free download period is up. Nokia would love for people to buy another Nokia device, thereby extending their subscription for another year, but it won't rescind the rights to music already downloaded.
But the entire scheme has a set of drawbacks so substantial that they will certainly limit Comes With Music's stocking-stuffer appeal. For one thing, there's all that DRM. The songs are all protected by a DRM that makes them playable only on a computer and a phone (and apparently, just one of each). That's great if you plan to use your phone as your music player at all times, though not so hot if you also have, say, an iPod or a Creative Zen.While the music can be kept "perpetually," even after the 12-month download period is over, DRM has a way of crashing the party. As noted when Microsoft and Yahoo shuttered music stores of their own, DRM-crippled tracks are only yours in perpetuity where "perpetuity" is defined as "until we shut down the DRM key servers." Don't plan on building a permanent music collection this way; it's more for sampling.
Then there's 5310 itself, which in no way possesses the sleek styling or "gotta get it now!" awesomeness of the iPhone or HTC Touch. While it may well be a competent platform on which to roll out the Comes With Music effort, it's hard to see how Nokia is "taking on Apple" with the offering, especially given the restrictions on the music.
Users of the Nokia N96 are to be among the first with the ability to run the BBC's iPlayer on their mobile phones.BBC NEWS | Technology | Intel details new core chip line
From 1 October a purpose-built application will be available to download via the BBC website and will also be pre-loaded on some handsets.
The BBC iPlayer allows UK audiences to download and stream BBC TV and Radio programming from the past seven days.
A Nokia spokesman said the service would be 3G and wireless compatible and that Nokia would not charge to use it.
Intel has unveiled the processors that will form the core of its product line from 2009 onwards.BBC NEWS | Technology | Intel unites the internet with TV
Details about Nehalem, now officially called Core i7, were given at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco.
The chips will appear in laptops, desktops and servers and with them Intel aims to boost processing ability, cut power use and improve graphics.
Intel has signed a deal with Yahoo to enhance the way people use their TVs by adding internet applications.BBC NEWS | Technology | One Laptop signs up with Amazon
The collaboration will produce a Widget Channel that lets viewers e-mail friends, trade shares or check the weather while watching programmes.
The internet-based services will run on a new set of Intel chips designed specifically for web-connected devices.
"This is not a copy of a PC on TV," said Eric Kim, head of Intel's digital home group.
"We are setting a new bar and delivering a richer internet experience to TV like never before," he said.
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation has signed a deal with Amazon to sell its low cost laptops.Kaspersky Lab patents dynamic antivirus technology - Security - iTnews Australia
The online retailer will help with its next Give 1 Get 1 (G1G1) programme that is due to begin in late November.
Under this scheme people can buy one of the XO laptops for themselves and donate the other to a school child in a developing nation.
It is hoped the deal with Amazon will iron out the problems OLPC encountered when it ran the G1G1 programme itself.
Kaspersky Lab has patented a method of antivirus scanning that assesses files according to when and how they first appeared on the computer.VMware Fusion 2.0 reaches release candidate stage
The method has been granted Patent No. 7 392 544 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Internally, it has been unofficially named ‘FirstTimeCheck’.
By dynamically varying the scanning level and set of tools used for file scanning, FirstTimeCheck is expected to minimise the impact of antivirus scanning on the overall system performance.
The technology also makes it possible to extend the time taken to scan new files and files received via ‘high-risk’ sources such as suspicious Web sites, P2P networks and e-mail attachments.
VMware Fusion 2.0 RC 1 was ushered out the door recently, and even contains a few new features to boot.AppleInsider | Road to Snow Leopard: twice the RAM, half the price, 64-bits
Most of the major feature updates were released as part of the Beta 1 and Beta 2 builds, including Unity 2.0, Leopard Server support, DirectX 9, and VM snapshots. It's pretty hard to compete with heavy-hitting features like those, but RC 1 is giving it a shot by including a free 12-month subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus in order to keep nasty things off of your Windows VM. The RC build also includes full Italian and Spanish language support, bringing the number of support languages to seven (including English). In terms of more minor updates, the user interface has received a few tweaks, and the Leopard Server compatibility has been improved.
Following the initial introduction to 64-bit computing leading up to Snow Leopard and a second segment outlining issues related to the amount of RAM that can be installed and actually used by the system, this third segment examines how much memory a specific app can use and how performance will improve with 64-bit addressing despite the additional overhead involved. A follow up segment will look at how the market for 64-bit apps is unfolding and how Apple is pioneering 64-bits on the desktop.
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