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Google's Omnibox could be Pandora's box (836 diggs) The auto-suggest feature of Google's new Chrome browser does more than just help users get where they are going. It will also give Google a wealth of information on what people are doing on the Internet besides searching.

Comcast's usage cap: Is the sky really falling? (819 diggs) When Comcast announced last week that it was instituting a formal usage cap for residential customers-- a total of 250 gigabytes of data transfer (uploading plus downloading), as described here-- I didn't think much of it, except to be happy they finally defined a critical element of their service guarantee. The previous level of ambiguity was anno

Google on Chrome EULA controversy: our bad, we'll change it (1,966 diggs) Now, Google tells Ars that it's a mistake, the EULA will be corrected, and the correction will be retroactive.

Serious Security Flaw in Google Chrome (2,369 diggs) Google Chrome has quickly become one of our favorite browsers here at RWW, but, as Ryan Narraine, a security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, reports, Chrome has also inherited a potentially serious security flaw from the old version of WebKit it is based on. An attacker could easily trick users into launching an executable Java file by combining a...

Hands-on with Chrome: Google's Browser Shines (Mostly) (1,409 diggs) oogle launched its first foray into the browser wars today with the official release of Chrome, a new open source web browser that aims to push forward Internet innovation and elevate user expectations. Although Chrome is still a bit light on features, it is surprisingly polished and has an assortment of highly promising capabilities.

P2P traffic drops as streaming video grows in popularity (900 diggs) ISPs have long complained about the fantastic amount of traffic consumed by P2P users. The network providers have never been keen on having their bandwidth hit so hard, especially when much of P2P's bandwidth —let's face it—consists of copyright-infringing material.

What exaflood? 'Net backbone shows no signs of osteoporosis (554 diggs) New research from Telegeography only confirms what we've been saying for some time: the Internet backbone isn't drowning beneath any kind of exaflood. In fact, backbone capacity has grown faster than Internet traffic in the last year —for the second year in a row.

Inside Chrome: Google's Plan to Crush IE and Remake the Web (1,383 diggs) Since a browser is the linchpin of Web activity — the framework for our searching, reading, buying, banking and porn consumption — this is huge step that needed to wait until Google had come of age. Chrome is an explicit attempt to accelerate the movement of computing off the desktop and into the cloud — where Google holds advantage.

Sergey Brin on Why Google's Launching a Browser (705 diggs) A couple of questions Businessweek.com had a chance to ask Sergey Brin, Google ’s cofounder and president of technology, after the demo at the Googleplex today. I had trouble with editing software, so there’s a piece of a question before my two questions, then a couple more from other reporters.

Want On The Digg Home Page? That’ll Be $1,300. (1,492 diggs) InvespBlog has published what it claims is an interview with a top Digg user - someone who has a 34% success ratio in getting submitted stories to the home page of Digg. The Digg user isn ’t named - he or she says “I have a reputation to withhold” (we know what they meant). (It ain't Mr. BabyMan, for the record.)

101 Google Tips, Tricks And Hacks (1,257 diggs) The ultimate collection of Google tips to help you find what you want - fast!

MPAA Wants ISPs to Cut Off Pirates (753 diggs) Following on from the IFPI-inspired Italian blockade of The Pirate Bay, the MPAA ’s President has been in Italy offering ideas on how to deal with the ‘problem’ of unauthorized file-sharing. Not wanting to flirt too much with originality, Robert Pisano is backing a 3 strikes-and-you’re-out policy. Just how far will the Italian government go in its c

Will Sony's new device spell the end of the paperback? (762 diggs) It will undoubtedly open another exciting chapter for the digital era. This is the electronic book - the same size as your average paperback, but with a 160-novel memory, promising to keep you reading for much longer.

How Google's Simple Chrome Could Steer Web’s Complex Future (1,503 diggs) As the search giant pours open-source gasoline on the flames of a browser “war” and the next steps for cloud computing, is Google’s new software the sign of a digital transformation, or just a smarter window on the Web?

BREAKING: Google Chrome Just Launched (10,057 diggs) Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Washington State court deals a blow to one-sided EULAs (1,050 diggs) AT&T's terms of service for long distance have been thrown out as "unconscionable" by a unanimous Supreme Court of Washington State, which determined that no reasonable individual would agree to them.

Google pulls the plug on eco-friendly search engine (726 diggs) Well, saving the environment from the comfort of our computer chairs felt good while it lasted. Google has ended its partnership with "green" search engine Forestle, saying that the site offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links.

The 20 Most Trafficked Web Sites -- Then And Now (1,598 diggs) How fast the world can change in just three years. Forbes recently had a look at the most visited sites today and compared them to the most visited sites just three years ago. Just a simple reminder on how fast things can change as well as how much of a lead MSN, AOL and Yahoo! had a few years back and how quickly Google has jumped ahead of the ..

Amount Of Spam Depends On First Letter In Email Address (582 diggs) The analysis, of more than 500 million junk messages, revealed those letters that get more junk than average. It found that e-mail addresses starting with an "A", "M" or "S" got more than 40% spam. By contrast those beginning with a "Q" or "Z" got about 20%.

Mozilla Not Worried About Google new browser (2,121 diggs) Mozilla Not Worried About Google new browser

Google Killer Strikes Again But Kills Everybody But Google (1,302 diggs) Cuil seems to be killing websites while indexing it. Way to go Cuil " The Google Killer "

Vaynerchuks Launch T-Shirt Search Engine PleaseDressMe (959 diggs) Gary Vaynerchuk with his brother AJ and Digg's own Joe Stump have launched a T-Shirt search engine called PleaseDressMe. More info can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/ tcpleasedressme (via techcrunch)

MIT model helps computers sort data more like humans (711 diggs) Humans have a natural tendency to find order in sets of information, a skill that has proven difficult to replicate in computers. Faced with a large set of data, computers don't know where to begin -- unless they're programmed to look for a specific structure, such as a hierarchy, linear order, or a set of clusters.

Google’s Insights on BitTorrent Clients (775 diggs) Google is a great tool to compare the popularity of searches in a similar niche. When the number of people searching for something goes up, it is often a sign of increased popularity. We take a look at the search volume for three popular BitTorrent clients, how this changed over time, and how it differs worldwide.

New Orleans IT departments brace for Gustav (641 diggs) As tropical storm Gustav approaches hurricane strength and heads toward the Gulf Coast, the IT lessons learned from the devastating Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that smashed New Orleans and other areas in 2005 are on the minds of many worried IT managers.