Google Announces Chrome Beta for Mac, Linux
It has been a long time coming, but Chrome for Mac and Linux is finally here. Google rolled out beta versions of its new browser for both operating systems this morning–more than a year after the company first announced Chrome for Windows. That’s far later than expected, but both browsers have both met Google’s end-of-2009 deadline.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Chrome: The End of Desktop Apps
Direct from Google headquarters, Vice President of Product Management Sundar Pichai explains that the company’s forthcoming Chrome OS could signal the end of desktop apps as we know them.
Google’s Chrome OS: “It Just Works”
Speaking at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans this past July, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said of Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS, “Who knows what this thing is?” Today, he found out. The operating system, a direct challenge to Microsoft Windows, was on display at a media gathering at the company’s HQ this morning, and in the words of Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management, it is intended to make computing a “delightful” experience.
Google CEO Rejected From App Store
Asked earlier this year if he would resign from Apple’s board in the face of Federal Trade Commission scrutiny of the close ties between the two companies’ boards of directors, Google CEO Eric Schmidt replied simply, “It hasn’t crossed my mind.” Well, apparently it has now.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Ballmer on Google Chrome OS: “Who Knows What That Thing Is”
Microsoft might worry more about Google’s new Chrome OS if it knew what it was. At the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans today, CEO Steve Ballmer said he was mystified by the dual-OS strategy Google seems to have adopted with Chrome. “Who knows what that thing is,” he said.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Mozilla Foundation Announces Your New Default Browser
After four beta versions and nearly as many release candidates, Firefox 3.5 is finally here. This latest version of the browser offers a number of new features. Among them: Private browsing, location aware surfing, support for emerging HTML 5 standards such as plug-in-free video and audio playing, and better JavaScript performance.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Time to Give Up That Apple Board Seat, Eric
He had a good run of it, but Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s stint as an Apple director may be coming to an end. Now that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the close ties between Apple’s and Google’s boards of directors violate antitrust laws, Schmidt’s seat on the former’s board, which he has held since August 2006, seems more trouble than its worth.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Google: Pig Pile on Microsoft!
Oh, they’re all piling on now. Google has thrown its backing behind European antitrust regulators’ latest complaint against Microsoft, which accuses the software behemoth of illegally bundling its Internet Explorer Web browser and Windows operating system. Like Mozilla before it, the company is applying to become a “third party” in the European proceeding.
Friday, January 2, 2009
IE Market Share: Down Nearly 15 Percent in Two Years
The stock market’s performance this past year isn’t the only thing that’s charting historic lows. According to preliminary December metrics from Net Applications, the share of the browser market held by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has slipped below 70 percent.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Google Android Phone: 3G, $179, Amazon MP3, App Store, 1GB, Copy and Paste
The first Android-powered handset debuted this morning at a T-Mobile launch event in New York. Manufactured by HTC, the G1 is largely as anticipated. Peter Chou, CEO of HTC describes it as “iconic,” but that’s being a bit generous, I think. In design, the device seems to borrow quite a bit from the T-Mobile Sidekick, and its touchscreen GUI clearly owes a thing or two to Apple’s iPhone.
Der Googel Krome Ist in der Schmutz
Google’s new Chrome browser hasn’t been available for a week yet and already, privacy advocates are sounding alarms. Over the weekend, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security warned against using the browser, which it fears collects and centralizes a bit too much user data with Google.
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- Wait Wait Don’t Eat Me
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”Need a new one?”
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Pants on the ground
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Step off Keyboard Cat …
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- I am locking the Wikipedia article on our sex life
Dear Josie,
After repeated instances of vandalism and abuse, I have taken the step of locking the Wikipedia article on our sex life. Although I have previously banned both your user account and your home IP address, malicious edits have continued, both anonymously and from newly registered users “alanequalswanker” and “ooohImabigimportantadmin.” - Things I Learned from iPhone and Droid Ads
Droid is a robot and should mostly be handled by other robots. It is packaged inside missiles launched by stealth jets. iPhone records video and seems to have a lot of useful apps.
