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New browsers offer major improvements

Kate Pietrelli, marketing director of hi5, shows off a browser during a Microsoft Explorer event. (Chip Chipman/Bloomberg)

After a decade-long hiatus, the browser wars are officially back. With this week’s release of Internet Explorer 9, last week’s Google Chrome 10 release, and this month’s expected release of Firefox 4, the three most-used browsers are all trying to outduel one another with the most impressive specs. Safari 5, which was released in June, also features many of the same modern features. Get the full story »

Chrome users now can block certain search results

AFP | Google Inc.  on Monday gave users of its Chrome Web browser the ability to block search results from low-quality Web sites known as content farms.

Google’s principal engineer, Matt Cutts, said Chrome users can download and install an extension for Chrome that blocks sites which provide “shallow or low-quality content” from their search results. Get the full story »

Google software to end tracking by advertisers

Google has introduced browser software that lets Internet users opt out permanently from ad-tracking cookies.

Google previously introduced an opt-out tool but that software can be lost when users clear their browser cookies.

In a blog post, Google says its newest tool, the Keep My Opt-Outs extension for the company’s Chrome browser, lets people permanently opt out of ad tracking from all companies that offer opt-outs — without compromising ad revenue.

Google takes wraps off first Chrome PCs

The first laptops powered by Google Inc’s Chrome system will hit store shelves later than expected, as the Internet company works out bugs in a family of Web-centric computers intended to take on Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc . Get the full story »

Reports: Google’s version of iPad planned for Nov.

The Apple iPad. (Reuters)

Reports are floating around the blogosphere that HTC is building a tablet based on the Google Chrome OS and will launch the device on Verizon Wireless on November 26. Get the full story »