Blink: Google forks Webkit to give the Chrome browser its own rendering engine (insert dongle joke here)

Google is taking its ball and going home, forking the open-source WebKit browser rendering engine that Chrome and Safari currently use and that Opera recently said it would start using.

This 22-day-old open-source Minecraft-cloning game builder runs in Javascript in your browser

Max Ogden has built a tool for creating Minecraft-like 3D games, all within a browser using JavaScript and OpenGL.

NetAuthority: saving your bank account from the Russian mob, one algorithm at a time

Imagine this: you phone your bank, asking a service rep to pay a phone bill and transfer money from savings to checking. Only, instead of talking to the bank, you're speaking to a crook who is talking to you on one phone ... and your bank on the other. And when you provide him with all the authentication details your bank requires, he loots your account and transfers your funds into accounts he controls.

VEVO gives the music lovers (and the mobile web) a big, mushy kiss

The debate over native apps versus mobile web rages on: which is better, which is more accessible, which is more customer-friendly.

VEVO just provided its answer by giving 50 million music lovers in the U.S. and Canada access to the …

Chrome is killing it. Just killing it.

Chrome is one of Google’s biggest success stories. Rank it up there with search that doesn’t suck (hard to find back in the day) and AdWords (the print-your-own money machine that drives everything else Google does).

Today at Google I/O …

Chrome for Android finally out of beta at version 18 (but now it’s really, really good)

And we used to make fun of Microsoft for releasing crappy early versions of software, only to get it right later on. As the Google I/O news drowns out everything else in the tech-0-sphere today, Google announced that Chrome for …

Opera 12: new version, new features, new competitive challenges

Opera is releasing version 12 of the Opera browser today, with new features for theming, controlling your computer’s hardware from the browser without using a plugin, speed, and security.

VentureBeat talked with Opera’s Jan Standal, vice-president of desktop products to …

Facebook’s next big buy could be browser maker Opera

Facebook may be looking to buy browser maker Opera Software, according to a new report.

A source told Pocket-lint that the social network wants to expand into the browser space and is looking to acquire Opera to do so. VentureBeat …

Chrome finally comes to Android, get the new beta now

If you’re running the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, a.k.a. Android 4.0, on your smartphone or tablet, you can run along right now and download Chrome for Android.

The latest addition to the Chrome family is a mobile beta that …

Chrome passes Firefox in popularity, but Internet Explorer is still number one

Don’t start sniggering into your sleeves over your puerile “number two” jokes, but Chrome is now the second most popular Web browser in the world.

According to data from StatCounter, as of November, Chrome claims a 25.7 percent share of …

Dolphin Browser moves into tablets with iPad app

Mobotap’s Dolphin Browser on Monday launched an app for the Apple iPad, bringing its tabbed browsing and gestures to the most popular tablet in the world.

Two weeks ago, Dolphin made its debut on the iPhone. It originally cut its …

Old hacking tricks work too easily in attacks on HTML5, security expert says

A lot of big companies are looking to HTML5 to be a unifying standard for the web content of the future. But the standard is riddled with security vulnerabilities, according to one expert.

Ming Chow, a lecturer at the computer …

Read It Later lands $2.5M to access bookmarked content anywhere

Read It Later, the company that lets you bookmark web content and access it on other devices, has secured a first round of funding for $2.5 million, according to a company blog post.

The idea is to let you save …

Google Chome 13 beta is out, adds Instant Pages and print preview

Google on Friday released its Google Chrome 13 beta, a version of the browser that includes the newly introduced Instant Pages feature and the long-awaited print preview function.

Both Instant Pages, which preloads your most likely search result, and print …