The Browser Monopoly by Blair Reeves There is really only one Big Tech monopoly that I actively worry about. It’s not Amazon, Facebook or Apple, though they are all extremely dominant in their respective fields and do act in anti-competitive ways that merit regulatory remedy. Rather, the tech monopoly that I wonder about is arguably one of the more mundane parts of the modern internet experience: your web browser, and its most likely source – Google. Zeldman warned us about…
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Wade Roush writing in Xconomy.com Think about it. Some morning in the not-too-distant future, you could be awakened by the alarm on your Google-designed phone (Motorola’s Moto X) running a Google operating system (Android). You could ride to work in a Google-powered robot car guided by Google-owned GPS maps (Waze). At your office you’ll log onto your Google (Chrome OS) laptop running a Google (Chrome) browser. You’ll spend your day analyzing documents and spreadsheets saved on Google’s cloud service (Drive)…
Overview I've been a long time fan of Google Chrome. It's the default browser on my office computer (Windows XP) and until recently the default browser on all my Macs. But that may be about to change. What do I like about Chrome? I mostly like the browser extensions but also Chrome sync. I have the Shareaholic extension for the quick sharing web sites to Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Another extension provides a one-click saving of long-read articles to Pocket,…
On-line advertising agencies and web site managers are using sophisticated means to track our on-line habits. Given that a handful of companies control the on-line advertising space, it can be incredibly challenging to protect your privacy while surfing the web. Most of the modern browsers have features that give consumers some level of control over tracking cookies. Normally this involves restricting the use of browser tracking cookies. Users can set the browser to prevent the setting of cookies or delete…
For me the word Chrome evokes images of the shiny, the futuristic and the fast. Clean, efficient and well built. Google Chrome developer preview doesn't disappoint. Google has taken WebKit, the same Open Source browsing engine that Safari is built on, and in a very short time developed a browser for Mac and Windows that is winning converts everywhere. On my work PC (Windows XP) Google Chrome has displaced Firefox as my "get things done quickly" browser. To Safari users,…
