A few months ago, Google announced that it would be speeding up release cycles for Google Chrome. Since the team was already churning out new versions at an unheard of pace for desktop software many wondered less whether Google could do it, but why would it want to in the first place.

In the mean time, the Chrome team has indeed been getting new releases out there every six weeks, like the accelerated schedule required. But, of course, six weeks is not enough to get much done, so each new version doesn't really bring major improvements, rather just a number of new features.
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THE PRUDISH government of Indonesia has got Research in Motion (RIM) to bend over and filter pornographic websites as part of an agreement that will give it access to encrypted customer data.
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Netkas and flukes1 have successfully managed to patch the lv2_kernel in v3.55 to allow peek & poke syscalls.

v3.55 Patcher!
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According to new data from comScore, Android now has the second largest share of the smartphone operating system market in the United States, replacing Apple.
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Android getting ported to the iPhone may be old news by now, but Android 2.3 (a.k.a. Gingerbread) getting ported to the iPhone? Well, that's something... new, if entirely expected. As before, it's the iPhone 3G doing the honors, and the port is still based on the iDroid project, which means you can hang onto iOS in a dual-boot configuration so you won't be left in the cold when the less-than-stable port decides not to cooperate. And, yes, this once again means that the iPhone has gotten the latest version of Android before many Android devices have. ...

Firefox has taken the number one spot in browser market share in Europe for the first time, according to a survey by traffic-statistics company StatCounter. The firm’s numbers show that Firefox had just over 38 percent of the European browser market in December, compared with a little less than 37 percent for Internet Explorer. But the real battle for Firefox is with Chrome, the Google browser that continues to gain market share at a fairly rapid pace — most of the decline in IE’s share has come as a result of Chrome’s advances.
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