Google’s web-only Chrome OS (operating system) will hit the consumer market next year, with several major manufacturers selling inexpensive notebooks that boot directly into a web browser–no desktop, no “Start Menu,” no “Dock,” just the web.
Until consumer products become available, Google has loaded Chrome OS onto a prototype …
Google just unveiled its plans for a major shakeup of the computer industry. It’s a classic three-pronged approach consisting of Google’s Chrome web browser, the newly-opened Chrome Web Store, and the upcoming Chrome Operating System. Let’s take a closer look.
Chrome (the web browser)
Google has reported a jump from 70 million to …
There’s a new web browser in town: RockMelt. The tagline is “Your Browser. Re-Imagined,” which is technically accurate if you use Google’s Chrome web browser. RockMelt uses the same underlying code base as Chrome.
Where RockMelt differs, largely, is in its ability to integrate with your favorite social media sites. The left hand side …
The Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta recently released by Microsoft reintroduces the software giant into the browser wars, but why are browsers worth fighting over when they’re essentially offered as freeware? Of the three major browsers used worldwide, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome, each …
It’s about time that someone created a film that enhanced your watching-videos-at-work experience.
Chris Milk’s The Wilderness Downtown is more than just a music video for the Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait.” The HTML 5 project — which can only be viewed on Google Chrome — turns your whole computer screen into an interactive …
Google’s Mark DeLoura took the stage at the Game Developers Conference in Europe and said that the Chrome Web Store will launch this fall, “most likely in October.”
Games look to be plentiful, thanks in part to Google’s aggressive revenue sharing plan. Where most app stores take a 30% cut of purchases, leaving 70% to the developers …
Renderings of what a Google Chrome OS tablet could look like first showed up in early February when Google’s Senior Software Engineer Glen Murphy posted a handful of images and a video of what the UI might look like. Then in May, the WSJ and Bloomberg reported that Verizon was working closely with Google on an Android-powered tablet. …
New Android goodies from Google today. First, there’s the Chrome to Phone extension. You install it in Google Chrome and when you find a link, map, phone number, YouTube video, or selection of text on the web, you can send it off to your Android handset and it’ll open in the appropriate application immediately. Pretty …
Citing the difficulty inherent in finding web-based applications, Google has announced its own web store, fittingly called the Chrome Web Store. It’ll feature one-click purchases tied to your Google account, and purchased browser-based applications will appear right on your Chrome start page.
During the keynote at its 2010 …
Google’s Chrome OS will be here this year and in a recent interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt explained that Chrome devices will be “completely disposable,” meaning that if you lose one you won’t lose any of your data, and should be priced similarly to netbooks—between $300 and $400.
The entire interview can be found here. …
With Jack Johnson filling the air at Building 4, Town Hall, Steve Jobs revealed what many of us have been expecting for over a year: multitasking. Along with Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller, Steve Jobs walked through 7 of the 100 new features coming to the “most advanced mobile operating system in the world” that will be available …
IE6 users take heed for YouTube will drop support for your browser on March 13. That’s not to say you won’t be able to watch videos, but specific features – whatever they might be – will not work with your dinosaur browser. The same goes for those of you running Chrome 4.0, Firefox 3.0, Safari 3.0 and those of you running IE7. …