One in four young professionals wants to work at Google Inc., according to a survey by Universum, a consulting firm that helps companies improve their attractiveness to prospective employees. Nearly 25% of survey respondents picked Google, almost twice as many as chose Apple, which ranked second, reports the “Wall Street Journal” (http://macte.ch/AN08L).
Walt Disney Co., the U.S. State Department and Amazon.com rounded out the top five.
Read MoreGoogle (http://macte.ch/vlqmD) has updated its Chrome 10 browser for the third time this month with the release of Chrome 10.0.648.134 for Mac, Windows and Linux and Chrome Frame, reports “eSecurity Planet” (http://macte.ch/sYgkn).
Chrome 10.0.648.134 is being issued to fix a single issue. It provides an updated Adobe Flash player that fixes a zero day vulnerability that is already being exploited in the wild.
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Icon Games Entertainment has announced Family Games for the iPhone and iPad. The US$1.99 app offers different multiplayer modes and game variations to choose from. Gamers can challenge their friends and family members to a tournament of skill and luck in games ranging from Dots to Hangman.
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The latest Android smartphone loaded Web pages 52% faster than iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3, according to thousands of independent field tests by Blaze Software — as reported by “Computerworld” (http://macte.ch/OMA7d).
The web page load times were about a second apart for the two devices in a study that amassed 45,000 load tests in all. For Android 2.3 on the Google Nexus S smartphone using a version of Chrome, the median load time was 2.144 seconds, compared to 3.254 seconds for iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3 running a version of Safari, according to the study.
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Zediva (http://www.zediva.com/splash/) is providing a new way for people to watch the latest popular movies online. And it’s Mac compatible.
For about the price of a cup of coffee, Zediva users have the ability to instantly watch movies as soon as they become available on DVD. Now movie aficionados can watch many movies as much as 90-180 days (or more) before they could with some other movie rental services, and at prices as much as 60-80% lower than many satellite and cable providers, Venky Srinivasan, founder and CEO of Zediva.
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