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Google Chrome’s Growth Slows In July According to Browser Share Data

by Chris Chavez on August 5th, 2011

A research firm by the name of Net Applications released their report on browser share and it looks like the adoption of Google Chrome has slowed down a bit for the month of July. As shown in Net Applications data, Chrome’s market share has grown since June but at a smaller rate of .34% when [...]


Toshiba Nixing Chrome OS Book

by Tyler Miller on May 24th, 2011

While Toshiba may have had plans on releasing a Chrome based netbook; those plans seem to have been axed, along with W7 tablets, according to some leaked information. With the two devices scrapped, Toshiba will focus on its Android based Thrive device. The move comes after Toshiba’s AC100 flopped, and the company has decided to [...]


CR-48 Shipping Out Again

by Tyler Miller on May 21st, 2011

Engadget is being told that the CR-48, Google’s first Chrome OS netbook, is back to being shipped out to its eager beta testers. Yes, those who signed up for the beta program back in December claim they are, or have, been shipped the reasonable-to-call-a-flop-netbook. Hey maybe those who received it will just load Ubuntu on [...]


Two Job Postings Further Suggest Google Is Interested In Gaming

by Talton "phases" Pettigrew on May 3rd, 2011

For the last year or so occasional hints have been dropped regarding Google’s interest in the gaming industry.  It all started back in July when the big G slapped down a cool 100 million to invest in this little company named Zynga.  Ever heard of them? They then snagged Mark DeLoura – you know, that [...]


Chrome Can Now Delete Plug-in Cookies

by Talton "phases" Pettigrew on April 27th, 2011

Just a quick post to let you know the Chromium Blog has posted an article to announce a new feature found in the latest dev build – as the title says – the ability to delete “plug-in data”.  This includes Flash Player data! (As one might expect, these cookies are included in what all clears [...]


HTML5 + Chrome = GigaPan Awesomeness

by Talton "phases" Pettigrew on April 25th, 2011

A few days ago a researchers over at Carnegie Mellon University announced a “Time Machine” they had built which uses HTML5 to take GigaPan to the next level. There is lots of explanation to be had, but in short: You can watch time lapse videos of super-high resolution images, fast forward/rewind and zoom, as well [...]


Cr-48 – Unboxing The First Chromeputer

by Talton "phases" Pettigrew on December 16th, 2010

As I mentioned in a previous article, one of our writers has had the Cr-48 for about a week now. He’s been busy putting some miles on it so that it will have a chance to leave an impression on him, but in the meantime we wanted to bring you an unboxing video to hold [...]


FeedSquares: Great new way to read your New Feeds with Chrome

by Liz on July 31st, 2010

It’s hard making sense of all the news and rapidly seeing what you already read and what you didn’t read. Reading feeds with Google Reader is ok, but it still is not optimal if you have a lot of feeds with 1000s of new posts per day. Feedsquares tries to end this problem by making [...]


Google and Bumptop: Chrome going 3D?

by Liz on May 3rd, 2010

Google has acquired Bumptop, a company that developes 3D desktop environments. So is Chrome going 3d? That would be kinda neat!


Google Chrome: printing in the cloud

by Liz on April 18th, 2010

Making a light OS where everything takes place in the cloud sounds fine and dandy, but Google had to come up with a simple way to allow users to print documents. Not n easy task with so many different printers out there but Google says they’ve cracked it!