On UBC campus wireless internet…
Wireless Internet Speed Test at UBC
Archive for September, 2008
Need for Speed
Thursday, September 11th, 2008VeriSign Increases Domain Prices… Again
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008According to this article at Domain Name Wire, VeriSign is increasing its domain name prices yet again. VeriSign is the registry operator for the .net and .com top-level domains, and basically is free to raise the price each year its contract is still valid.
Google Chrome
Monday, September 1st, 2008
Finally Google is releasing a beta of its browser application, Google Chrome. Scheduled release date is tomorrow (Tuesday September 2nd, 2008).
Google Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine, which is currently being used in Apple’s Safari browser among others. I personally prefer Safari’s speed at loading pages, and I hope Google Chrome using the same engine can achieve same or better speeds than Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Also it seems like each tab in Google Chrome will be run in its own process, which should make memory leaks easier to manage (well hopefully there won’t be any to start off with).
The Google Chrome team put together a comic book outlining the development for this browser. Very interesting read.
Google Blogoscoped has a post on Google Chrome quickly listing a few features and also another post with screenshots of the new browser. Google’s official blog also has a post mainly for announcing Google Chrome’s release date. Yet another post on All Things Digital discusses Google’s tactical moves invading the browser market.
