Some of you may wonder why it is that I decided not to rush out and post a reaction to Chrome. Well, first off everyone else is doing it. That much goes without saying because it's pretty hot news. I wanted to wait and see what cropped up though, as well as test the browser for myself. I gave it a nice run through and I feel like it passed some hurdles, but tripped up on others. READ MORE
As part of a redesign of its Picasa Web Albums online photo sharing site, Google added a new facial recognition feature that quickly sifts through groups of online photos and categorizes them by person. Google says the tool lets users more easily identify and tag people in photos for faster, easier organization and recall. Others say the tool, while cool, has many implications, some of them pretty scary. The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle.
Chrome: Insecure by design?09/04/08Chrome had just one day to sparkle before it was hit by two security issues, IDG News reports. Researchers say that two bugs in Google's new browser, which are due to known security holes, are twice as malicious due to the new browser's design.
Video review: Chrome a 'decent start'09/04/08Google's Chrome browser, just released in beta this week, excels at some basic browsing tasks but is missing a few key features. That's according to Network World Multimedia Editor Jason Meserve, who spent some time putting the new browser through its paces and comparing it with its more entrenched competitors, IE and Firefox.
Chrome's secret: The Skia engine09/03/08GigaOm's Om Malik noticed a pretty significant nugget buried beneath the hype surrounding Google's new Chrome browser: By open sourcing Chrome, Google also open sourced its underlying Skia graphics engine code. Skia is the graphics rendering software that underlies Android, as well, leaving Malik with the impression that "Google Chrome is more about the mobiles and less about the desktops."
Chrome is end run around Microsoft09/03/08While pundits ponder whether the world needs yet another browser, the real question is can there be a browser that can handle the envelope-pushing applications that Google and other cloud-computing vendors are rolling out? Do we really want to leave the entire Web app client market (once again) to Microsoft?
Google hedges its bets with new browser09/02/08Fast on the heels of its announcement that Gears works with Apple's Safari browser and the launch of Microsoft's IE 8 with its new privacy feature, Google offered Chrome, its open-source entrant into the crowded browser marketplace. But Chrome isn't just another browser. It's Google's attempt at controlling the Web apps marketplace. Google may be on its way to owning the cloud via Google Apps, but before it can be truly successful, it has to own the client. And that's where Chrome comes in.
Google-Yahoo deal to start in October08/29/08Optimism is the watchword at Google when it comes to its upcoming ad-sharing deal with Yahoo. In an interview on Bloomberg TV, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Google plans to go ahead with the deal in October. By then, the 3.5 months Google agreed to wait for the Justice Department to scrutinize the pact will have passed.
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Chrome SpinningSome of you may wonder why it is that I decided not to rush out and post a reaction to Chrome. Well, first off everyone else is doing it. That ...Read more
Garett Kopczynski is an IT professional for the City of Keene, N.H. His hands-on involvement with Google Apps gives him unique insight into other applications of Google within (and beyond) a corporate office environment.
Google Chrome Tips and PointersChrome is Google's newly released browser. It's currently available for Windows only. Following are a couple of FAQ's and bits of interest. Where's the search history button? In Chrome's interface the search ...Read more
Philipp Lenssen from Germany, author of Google Apps Hacks, shares his views and news on the search industry in the daily Google Blogoscoped. Items here are reprinted with his permission.
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