Roel Schouwenberg, a security researcher at Kaspersky Lab warned security professionals about risks in Google’s Chrome operating system which might make it unsuitable of business purpose. Though Schouwenberg admired Google about developing a platform from a security point of view, but he also warned about users vulnerable to attacks from applications running within the browser. [...]
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Samsung All Ready To Revive Series 5 Chromebook, To Launch Chromebox Desktop
Though Chromebooks have failed to cast the impression which was expected out of it, Samsung is all set to revive its series 5 Chromebooks with improved hardware. As of now it is not clear as to how many Chromebooks running on Google Chrome OS have been sold so far. Meanwhile, Samsung also plans to come [...]
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PC Makers Yet Not Optimistic About Chrome OS
In a speech in Taiwan, Google Executive chairman Eric Schmidt tried to promote Chrome OS for PCs. PC makers however, believe that for Google’s Chrome OS to make a name for itself in the PC market, Google needs to provide more resources and support. Windows still remain the dominant player in the PC market and [...]
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Chrome OS Soon To Have Native Image Editor
Search engine giant Google is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that it turns Chrome OS into a full fledged operating system which challenges existing players in the market. Recently Google has come up with Chrome 14 Beta of Chrome browser which brings the browser close to an operating system. Google is working to equip [...]
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Chrome OS Updated By Google
Search engine giant Google has come up with a new version of its Chrome Operating System. The new stable version is based upon Chrome 13 which includes several features including “Instant Pages”. It is to be noted that the though the earlier version of the Chrome OS was good, it had some problems. But with [...]
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Chrome Community, Forums Remain Quite After Revelation At Black Hat Conference
Recently during the Black Hat Security Conference, researchers highlighted vulnerability in the Chrome OS which could result in the theft of personal information of users. The threats were identified mainly from the reliance of Chrome on Extensions. Researchers identified several extensions whose bugs can inject code into the browser and steal required information. After this, [...]
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Video of Chromium OS Running on Tablets Surfaces
In one of our earlier articles, we had said that Google has no plans to make its Chrome Operating system available to tablets. At that time Google had said that Chrome OS is primarily focused for notebooks. There were obvious reasons for it. With tablets running on Google’s own Android system, launching Chrome OS tablets [...]
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Chrome’s New Version To Re-Enable Multi-Touch Gestures In Lion
Search engine giant Google has come up with a new developer version of Chrome to re-enable multi-touch gesture which changed in Lion, which is the new version of Mac OS X. Google came up with Chrome 14.0.835.0 for Mac which alters the forward and backward navigation for two finger swipe motion on Apple’s devices. It [...]
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Webian Shell To Compete With Chrome OS
While Chrome expects to give tough competition to established operating systems in the market, it can face a new challenge from a new competitor. Webian Shell, a new OS is being developed by Mozilla and just like Chrome, the operating interface is centered around the browser. Like Chrome OS, Webian Shell is equipped with a [...]
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Security Experts Demonstrates Hacking Chrome Via Scratchpad Extension
While a number of questions have been raised regarding the security of the Chrome OS, a security researcher demonstrated a preview as to how an extension can be exploited to hack Chrome. The extension known as ScratchPad offers diverse range of permission which makes the Chrome vulnerable to attack. Matt Johansen, a security expert at [...]
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