When you think of web browsers, you probably think of Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and maybe Safari and Opera. But Maxthon is one name you probably don’t think about. Maxthon has been a web browser for quite some time (it was initially founded in 1999 and called MyIE) but failed to gain anywhere near the same popularity as other browsers. Today, Maxthon is one of the world’s top 1

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For years, Internet Explorer has been the laughing stock of the tech community. Today, Internet Explorer 10 is desperately trying to change that reputation by offering faster speeds and safer browsing than browsers like Chrome and Firefox. In the past few months, news about Internet Explorer 10 has been pretty quiet. Speeds and safety ratings have been comparable to modern browsers, but IE10 ha

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Gmail is widely regarded as one of the most secure free email services in the world. You never hear about Google experiencing security leaks or losing user data. But as secure as Gmail may be, it’s not perfect. It doesn’t automatically encrypt all of the emails you send, which means that somebody can intercept your emails and read them. Or, somebody could hack into your recipient’s Gmail

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Phishing attacks are bad. Everybody can agree on that (except the hackers who make a living from phishing). But if you want to protect yourself from being exploited, antivirus software generally can’t help. Only a few of today’s antivirus programs offer phishing protection. And even these programs can be frighteningly lax in terms of detecting and warning users about phishing attacks. So

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The release of Windows 8 has come and gone, and that means millions of users around the world are now using Internet Explorer 10. Although Internet Explorer 10 might look like just another web browser, it has one feature that makes it unique from any other web browser ever made. That feature is Do Not Track protection, which Internet Explorer 10 has enabled by default. Although other browsers h

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