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We heard the latest Chrome OS rumor last week, and it looks like it will at least be partially true. The news is official and comes courtesy of Google who have stated that they will be offering a “complete overview” of Chrome OS and giving some demos tomorrow November 19,… Continue Reading »

The official word on the Google’s Chrome OS mentioned that we would see “more updates in the fall” and that it would not be available for download until the “second half of 2010.” That said, things sometimes change, and sometimes they become the subject of rumor. In this case, we… Continue Reading »

The easiest way to get anybody to use your software is to pack it into their brand new PCs.  While most of us hate the software pre-packaged trial software that comes bundled with a new PC, there’s no doubt that its an easy way to get the software out to… Continue Reading »

Yesterday was a big day for Chrome in terms of being able to sync and backup your bookmarks.  We saw not one, but two methods for syncing and backing up your bookmarks get announced.  Unfortunately, at this time both options require the user to be running the latest dev build… Continue Reading »

Google released a new beta of their Chrome browser today posting a claimed 30% gain in speed as well as some new feature improvements.  One of the big additions is themes allowing the browser to more like Microsoft’s Bing search engine that has been moving up the search charts.  Bing… Continue Reading »

Earlier this morning I highlighted the current list of launch partners for the Chrome OS from Google and as I mentioned Intel was not on that list.  Of course, Intel may have been left off because they have already given their support for another netbook operating system—Moblin.  However the announcement… Continue Reading »

Before we continue to get all hyped up on Google Chrome OS, we must remember that it is not going to be available until the second half of 2010, which means we still have a year to wait and at this point we only have a few facts in regards… Continue Reading »

It seems as if Google is trying to shake things up, first they remove the beta tag from Google apps such as Calendar, Docs, Gmail and Talk and now they have unveiled their latest project—Google Chrome OS. “Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their… Continue Reading »

The past month has seen a lot of Internet browser upgrades.  Just about every major browser has been updated recently, each getting faster, supporting newer standards and adding features that might now seem standard.  Given that, each browser underwent an upgrade, it wouldn’t have been surprising to see the numbers… Continue Reading »

Google Chrome just got a bump.  The beta version of the Google’s web browser is now version 2.0.172.5.  The upgrade is supposed to help with stability and fixes issues with form submissions.  Most importantly, Incognito mode works a little better.  Previous to this update, if you visited a site even… Continue Reading »