Google set to launch own web browser (TVNZ)

5 September 2008, 2:53 am

Google is set to introduce on Wednesday a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich or other complex Web programs, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics.... read more

Truth about textbooks | Open-source books provide digital deals (Daily Pennsylvanian)

4 September 2008, 9:20 pm

As the textbook industry adapts to the digital age, it is harnessing technology in a search for solutions to perennial frustrations over high costs. Most stakeholders agree that the future of textbooks is electronic, but their motives and methods are different.... read more

Open source release takes Linux rootkits mainstream (The Register)

4 September 2008, 4:02 pm

Script kiddies, the DR will see you now The art of burying invisible malware deep inside a Linux machine is about to go mainstream, thanks to a new open-source rootkit released Thursday by Immunity Inc., a firm that supplies tools for penetration testers.…... read more

See Chrome's inner workings--and an Easter egg (CNET)

4 September 2008, 11:20 am

Google's new browser shows a wealth of detail for programmers building Web sites or the open-source browser itself. And a mystery: what technology underlies the Easter egg?... read more

The Android Mobile Phone Platform (Dr. Dobb's Journal)

4 September 2008, 9:49 am

Android is an open-source mobile phone stack developed by Google for the Open Handset Alliance.... read more