Shaping up samples for browser battles (AFP)

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google on Friday released a version of chrome as revved rivals Microsoft and Mozilla strengthened their samples to the arena of competitive Internet navigation software.

In line with the arrival of the lunar year of the rabbit, Google product manager Jeff Chang and Li Chan promoted the latest trial version of Chrome "as quick as a Bunny."

The latest version of chrome came a week after Microsoft has deployed an Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) release candidate Featuring improvements in speed, security, privacy and Web site graphics functionality.

IE9 has been downloaded over two million times as of Friday, according to Ryan Gavin, senior director of the IE team.

"We are particularly happy to see the number of partners and developers embracing and exploiting the IE9 performance capabilities," Gavin said in a blog post.

Mozilla last week released a test version of its Firefox web browser with 4 improvements that included a people of "Do not track" feature may use to report Web sites that do not want their online activities.

"We have continued our work to improve the performance and stability, while also implementing a privacy feature ' Do not Track ' to provide more control over online behavioral tracking," said Mozilla.

Firefox debuted in 2004 as an open source browser, innovative individuals predisposed released as an option for Internet Explorer.

Google released last month extension of the software for its Chrome browser that allows users to opt-out of being tracked by a growing collection of companies adopting privacy industry regarding online advertising.

"Keep My Opt-out" allows users to choose not to have code snippets, called "cookies" are installed on your computer to monitor your online conduct for the purpose of targeting ads.

Microsoft "Security Tracking" was built in IE9, but users must be savvy enough to enable the feature and create lists of third-party Web sites that do not want to track their behavior.

Internet Explorer is the most popular Web browser in the United States followed by Firefox, Chrome and Apple Safari.

California School District Truancy battles with GPS

Students with a trend of truancy in California Anaheim Union High School District shall be assigned GPS unit to make sure they're going to school on time, according to The Orange County Register. GPS units are the size of a mobile phone (chunky) and have been developed by Dallas goal truancy solutions, which operates in more than 100 middle and high schools in three States.

The Anaheim Union High School District is part of a voluntary pilot program for six weeks that is staging the seventh and eighth grade students who have more than three truancy with these devices. In Austin, Texas, where he also ran this experiment, was used for students in middle and high school who had racked up between 20 and 25 absences.

When asked why the Orange County Register are handheld devices rather than tied to Regional Director of students, Sylvan Miller, solutions to truancy goal, he said, "we don't want to criminalize children or have them wearing a bracelet or something around their ankle that he would have fired them."

Every school day, participants will receive an automated call reminding them to get to school on time. Then must enter a code which keeps track of their location during their departure for arrival at school, at school, during lunch, departure from school and at 8 p.m., the Register reports.

The cost between $ 300 and $ 400 apiece. All together, the six-week program costs about $ 8 per day per student or $ 18,000. It is estimated that schools lose $ 35 per day for every absent student, so program objective truancy solution is a cost savings.

Some parents were thrilled with the program. "This makes us seem like common criminals," a parent whose child has accumulated six unjustified absences, told the register.

But perhaps carrying a GPS unit and regularly logging path is better than the alternative: police investigator told the register that Armando Pardo if the District Attorney prosecutes, truant students may be sent to juvie and get sa with a nice $ 2,000.

"Nearly two-thirds of students in order [during the fall semester of 2010] made perfect attendance while the initial program and all students combined average 97 percent," according to a press release.

California School District Truancy battles with GPS (PC World)

Students with a trend of truancy in California Anaheim Union High School District shall be assigned GPS unit to make sure they're going to school on time, according to The Orange County Register. GPS units are the size of a mobile phone (chunky) and have been developed by Dallas goal truancy solutions, which operates in more than 100 middle and high schools in three States.

The Anaheim Union High School District is part of a voluntary pilot program for six weeks that is staging the seventh and eighth grade students who have more than three truancy with these devices. In Austin, Texas, where he also ran this experiment, was used for students in middle and high school who had racked up between 20 and 25 absences.

When asked why the Orange County Register are handheld devices rather than tied to Regional Director of students, Sylvan Miller, solutions to truancy goal, he said, "we don't want to criminalize children or have them wearing a bracelet or something around their ankle that he would have fired them."

Every school day, participants will receive an automated call reminding them to get to school on time. Then must enter a code which keeps track of their location during their departure for arrival at school, at school, during lunch, departure from school and at 8 p.m., the Register reports.

The cost between $ 300 and $ 400 apiece. All together, the six-week program costs about $ 8 per day per student or $ 18,000. It is estimated that schools lose $ 35 per day for every absent student, so program objective truancy solution is a cost savings.

Some parents were thrilled with the program. "This makes us seem like common criminals," a parent whose child has accumulated six unjustified absences, told the register.

But perhaps carrying a GPS unit and regularly logging path is better than the alternative: police investigator told the register that Armando Pardo if the District Attorney prosecutes, truant students may be sent to juvie and get sa with a nice $ 2,000.

"Nearly two-thirds of students in order [during the fall semester of 2010] made perfect attendance while the initial program and all students combined average 97 percent," according to a press release.