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Google pays $22.5 million to settle Apple Safari charges

Google Inc will pay $22.5 million to settle charges it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple Inc's Safari browser, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday.

 

Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to be the Default Search Engine in Safari

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According to one analyst, Apple made $1 billion from Google last year to make it the default search engine in Safari.

 

Microsoft: Google bypassed IE privacy settings too

Discovery comes just days after Web giant was found to be sidestepping the user privacy preferences in Apple's Safari. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Security.

 

Google's iPhone Tracking

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The web giant and other ad companies bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser on mobile devices and computers – tracking the online habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

 

IE9 can't stop Microsoft's browser slump

IE9 can't stop Microsoft's browser slump

The March launches of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4 failed to stop Microsoft's and Mozilla's decline in browser share, new Web usage data shows.

 

Microsoft IE9 browser goes live

Microsoft IE9 browser goes live

Microsoft has launched the finished version of its Internet Explorer 9 web browser amid tough competition from rivals. The company said IE9's graphics handling, security and privacy features put it on an even footing with Firefox, Chrome, Safari and others. The release comes as Microsoft's browser market share is being whittled down by a growing roster of rivals.

 

Internet Explorer and Safari first to fall at Pwn2Own 2011, Chrome and Firefox still standing

Pwn2Own, the annual three-day browser hackathon, has already claimed its first two victims: IE8 on Windows 7 64-bit, and Safari 5 on Mac OS X.

 

Apple Leaves Another 'Autocomplete' Privacy Bug In Safari Unfixed

Web security guru discloses his second Safari privacy problem in as many months.

 

Safari 5 tested: Chrome, Opera still have JavaScript edge

Apple released a new version of Safari on both Mac OS X and Windows, suggesting it has the "performance edge." Our testing doesn't quite agree with that conclusion.

 

Google Chrome Passes Safari to Nab Third in Browser Race

Just last week, Google finally released official betas for its Chrome browser for Mac and Linux.

 

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