Even though I’m a Chromebook user with 1 TB of free Google Drive storage, I have multiple cloud storage accounts. That’s mainly for redundancy, but of course it can add complexity:… Read more »
A Canadian outfit called Peerio has put its eponymous secure messaging and cloud storage app into public beta, promising a much more usable alternative to PGP email and file encryption. Peerio… Read more »
Five years ago, Microsoft began offering a choice of browsers to European customers who were booting up a copy of Windows for the first time. It did this in order to settle an… Read more »
WebRTC is clearly gaining impressive momentum, as illustrated today by separate announcements from Microsoft and Temasys. The technology still faces big hurdles, but businesses and developers should be considering how they… Read more »
Microsoft is moving forward with Skype in a browser with a new beta version announced for IE, Chrome, Safari and Firefox. You’ll still need to download a plug-in but the company… Read more »
Looking for an option to the verification codes Google uses for 2-step authentication? You can now access your Google accounts on Chrome using a USB Security Key for that second step. Read more »
Users of the Firefox 34 beta will be able to have anonymous, WebRTC-based voice and video chats from the browser itself, with no need to install an add-on or plugin, or… Read more »
Most people are these days using browsers that support the much safer TLS web encryption protocol, but some aren’t, notably those still using Internet Explorer 6 — most of whom seem… Read more »
Ubuntu users can now stream movies and TV shows from Netflix without any workarounds, as long as they have Google’s Chrome browser installed. Read more »
Previously available as an extension or as part of Google Plus on the web, Google Hangouts is now a Chrome app for Windows and Chrome OS computers. It can be installed… Read more »