Google released the stable version of its Chrome browser today, bringing its release number up to 17. It has some nifty new features for end users, but also plenty of security tweaks behind the scenes. One of the newest features is pre-rendering when you type in the Omnibox with predictive technology. Say for example you [...]

Yesterday we reported on the controversy surrounding Google for hiring an advertising agency to promote its Chrome browser, which broke Google’s own Terms of Service. Today, Google has announced that it has demoted itself for violating these rules. The company agreed to lower the page ranking for Google Chrome for 60 days as punishment for [...]

We reported a few days ago that Bastion was one of the first major retail releases to take advantage of Google’s Native Client (NaCl) in order become available for play directly in the browser. Now a port of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME is available. By utilizing the Native Client, developers can sandbox [...]

A few days ago we reported on the new search deal orchestrated by Google and Mozilla that would see Google remaining the default search engine for Mozilla’s Firefox for another three years. Media sites have been giving the deal a lashing, mainly for Google seemingly supporting a competitor to its own Chrome browser. Both Chrome [...]

  Uh oh. Looks like Google has been caught violating the very rules it has set forth for its search engine regarding paid links. Recently a set of blog posts have been running with the byline, “sponsored by Google”, which had lead many people to cry foul on Google’s own paid links policy and whether [...]

No matter which side of the browser war you stand on, you can’t deny the contributions Google has made to helping the world break free of an Internet Explorer dominated landscape. When Firefox began taking its first baby steps to becoming a serious contender in the realm of browsers, it had Google by its side [...]

Yesterday we announced that Google Chrome has surpassed Internet Explorer 8 by a slim margin to take the top spot as the world’s most used browser. While the margin is very slim indeed, the upward gains of Chrome have been no secret, with the browser climbing as much as 10% in some months in order [...]

Early in July, Google launched an in-app payment service for its Chrome Webstore that works very similar to what Android users are familiar with. Initially the API for these in-app purchases was only available to developers located in the US, with Google promising to make it available to the rest of the world “soon”. It [...]

With the release of Chrome 16, Google finally enabled its Cloud Print service for everyone who uses its Chrome browser. Previously, the service was limited only to Chromebooks. With this release, Google says it has connected more than 6 million printers via Cloud Print, which is the first information the company has released about the [...]

Web analytics firm StatCounter has released their weekly report that shows Chrome 15 is now the most popular browser in the world, finally bumping Internet Explorer from its top spot. Google’s browser just barely nudged the competition out of the way with 23.63% global share compared to IE8′s 23.5%. Firefox has been lagging behind the [...]