Chrome Extension Protects Your Privacy on Facebook, Google [brightcove video="1897104021001" /] Maybe you're not keen to share details of your Internet activity with advertisers. A Chrome extension called PrivacyFix will walk you through your privacy settings and let you make changes so advertisers cannot track what you do on the web in order to make ad revenue. It also ensures that friends you're

BlueStacks App Player Enters Beta, Brings Android Apps To Your PC Desktop BlueStacks, a company bringing Android apps to your desktop PC, released the beta-1 version of its App Player Tuesday. If you're an Android fan, the name BlueStacks and the product may seem a bit familiar. Named Best Software at CES 2012, the App Player allows you to play the same Android apps you might enjoy on your smartph

The social network on Monday announced that Messenger for Windows, a standalone app that lets you IM friends via Windows 7, will be coming out of beta in a few weeks. "Millions of people log into Facebook every day to keep up with friends. They also browse other websites and run computer programs, so it’s easy to miss important stuff," reads a post on Facebook's blog. "Maybe a cousin just posted a

SOPA, intended to punish copyright infringement on the web, has caused quite a stir in the Internet community. Thousands of people, including tech giants such as Facebook and Google , have opposed the bill, saying it would effectively censor the web and place unfair demands on content providers -- who would be responsible for all copyright infringements on their site, even if those infringements w

In Online Advertising, 2011 Was the Year of Mobile [INFOGRAPHIC] Given the size of its business -- Google is the leader in both the U.S. search and mobile advertising markets, and somewhere between first and third in display -- Google's online advertising figures stand as a decent benchmark for trends in the industry. As with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, mobile was the big story for Google this

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. When we brought you our initial list of five useful Chrome extensions for Google+, we asked which tools you, the Mashable reader, were finding valuable on the new social networking service. Thanks to all your comme

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. Google+ has launched to great aplomb, but its "project" status means some tools have yet to be developed. While Google works on adding more features, some available Chrome extensions can fill the functionality gap.

Introducing Pokki, an Apple-Style App Store for PCs Pokki is an application store and platform for the desktop, inspired by mobile with Apple-esque design appeal. Pokki is PC-only at launch, but a Mac release is slated for later this year. "What we saw as developers and users were these fantastic app experiences on mobile and tablets that make it easy for consumers to discover and install apps in

In May, the software testing service provider surveyed more than 300 testers in 35 countries on their attitudes toward checkin services Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite. Participants were also tasked to report bugs. One hundred and seventy-seven bugs were reported for Foursquare, with another 316 for Gowalla and 377 for Brightkite. The report includes findings in six key areas: ease of use, oppo

In fact, networks such as Facebook have been pushing hard against the biggest names in web search, including Google, for several months now. As Hitwise reported recently, Facebook's overall web traffic pulled ahead of Google's for the first time in the U.S. in March of this year. Now, we've learned that in the UK, people are visiting social networks more than they're visiting search engines. Faceb

With this new feature, you can view any available user-contributed photographs within the panorama of a Street View location. User photos first came to Street View more than a year ago, but this is the first time we're seeing image and object recognition used to place this trove of content placed in a real-world context. To try out the overlay, click "Photos" in the top right corner of a Street Vi

Like the App Market, developers will be able to sell their apps through the store via Google's secure payment system. Google is effectively bringing the mobile app store model right onto the web, which could be huge news for app developers, publishers and others who have been looking to this model to generate revenue in addition to the traditional method of advertising support. The Chrome Web Stor