Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on November 1, 2011 at 3:30 pm PT
Here’s a look at a few methods to help you avoid distractions while on the computer. These range from Web browser tools to computer software programs to controls built into the operating system.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on June 22, 2011 at 6:05 pm PT
While Google’s Chromebook, a radical new laptop entirely dedicated to cloud computing, may be the future of computing, it’s too buggy today to be relied upon by mainstream users.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 30, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT
Mozilla’s new Firefox 4 Web browser is a sleeker and faster improvement on previous editions, but most of its new features are nothing new in the field.
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Nick Wingfield and Julia Angwin, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 15, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
A new version of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer to be released Tuesday will be the first major Web browser to include a do-not-track tool that helps people keep their online habits from being monitored.
Microsoft’s decision to include the tool in Internet Explorer 9 means Google Inc. and Apple Inc. are the only big providers of browsers that haven’t yet declared their support for a do-no-track system in their products.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 6, 2011 at 12:01 am PT
A big “everyone but Apple” coalition of hardware and software companies might be able to make a cloud-based media service work. If Apple will play along.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 15, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT
Walt tests an early-stage version of Google’s Chrome OS for computers–an attempt to challenge the Microsoft-Apple duopoly. One drawback of the new operating system, due next summer, is having to give up familiar local programs and dwell in the cloud.
