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Google’s new Data Saver extension for Chrome compresses pages to save on bandwidth Google recently launched a new Chrome browser extension in beta that reduces your data usage. Dubbed Data Saver, the extension uses Google’s data compression proxy service to optimize pages before serving them to your browser. It doesn’t work with SSL and incognito

What Google Code’s end means for Bitbucket, CodePlex, and SourceForge Credit: Signum Comminatio Vitae With most of its projects migrating away to GitHub, Google Code is shutting down; how will other competitors fare? For a time, Google Code was where many open source projects made their home. Then came the rise — and rise andrise — of

Google WHOIS error reveals hundreds of thousands of owners’ personal info A researcher at Cisco’s Talos security group recently discovered a bug that caused some Google Apps customers to have their personal information leaked via WHOIS domain listings for more than a year. Google Apps is a popular service these days, so in this case “some”

Google discovers new security holes in SSL — is the entire system fundamentally flawed? Google has discovered that an intermediate certificate authority had issued unauthorized certificates for multiple Google domains. The problem arose because the intermediate authority, MCS Holdings, had issued certificates for the Google domains, despite not holding those domains itself. The reason it’s

Google to shut down Gtalk today, will force users to switch to Hangouts Starting today, users will have to move away from Google Talk and embrace Hangouts, whether they like it or not. Yes, Google is all set to force users to switch to Hangouts, as it seems to be the future for the search