It was always possible that Google would launch its own browser, but never an obvious move: it would mean undercutting the independent Firefox browser that Google has done so much to support. A Google browser would therefore involve a bit of empire building — adding to the huge pile of pies in which Google already [...]
Visa to team up with Google for mobile payment platform — Credit card giant Visa will make a mobile payment application for Google’s mobile platform, Android. The app may also include location-based services to help you find where to rack up more credit card debt.
Is Google Chrome a security risk? – Experts have yet to [...]
Posted by David Berlind, Sep 12, 2008 02:09 PM
Yesterday, I wrote about the war — more like the Armageddon — that’s on the verge of eruption in the mobile space. Given how critical third party software developers are to the strategic success of any platform ecosystem, we can fully expect Apple,Google (NSDQ: [...]
Google’s having a busy time, making waves that have been felt all around the mobile and web world — especially the latter.
First up, Android — a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. That’s not our description, but Google’s.
We’d describe Android as Google’s attempt to give [...]
By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 11:28:00 09/09/2008
SINGAPORE – It is yet to be seen whether its recently released Web browser will finally make Google cool in the eyes of the ordinary consumer, according to a top executive of Sun Microsystems.
The search giant unveiled Chrome last week, its own browser version which competes with Firefox [...]
Don’t bother looking for Google (GOOG) under your bedsheets tonight. It’s not there, yet. But it’s positioned to be just about everywhere else.
The marketplace dichotomy of an omnipresent Google cannot be underestimated. The decade-old company is on a parallel track to equally incentivize as well as intimidate global competition. The far-reaching implications are easily lost [...]
Google made its long-rumored foray into Web browsers with the introduction of its open-source Chrome, but in the process, it ruffled some privacy feathers.
Word of the browser first accidentally leaked on the Web in the form of a detailed 38-page comic book that appeared on Google Blogoscoped, an unofficial Google blog.
The browser was written with [...]
Posted by Will on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 12:17 pm under Android, Developer, Linux, Applications, Announcements
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Leave it to Google to take on industry incumbents with the goal of completely redefining the user experience. Google’s latest project, [...]
While Google’s new Chrome web browser has been met with a lot of praise and positive responses (well, mostly, at least), there has been one nagging issue that arose quite quickly after people got their hands on Chrome: the End User License Agreement accompanying the browser. It more or less granted Google the rights to [...]
I know I know… by now the world doesn’t need yet another Google Browser blog post, with yet another news item or a hands on review. How about something different, even though it was buried deep inside the Google Chrome announcement?
As part of the Chrome release, Google open sourced a big portion of Android’s graphic [...]
Google’s release of its new browser, dubbed ‘Chrome’ today is an interesting bag for us Apple users. Firstly, unless we want to use it in a Virtual Machine, it doesn’t work on our OS. It only works on Windows XP/Vista at the moment, although it is promised for Mac (and Linux) at a later date.
Secondly, [...]
Although Google’s Chrome is designed for PC environments, the newly unveiled Web browser is closely allied with Google’s strategy to take greater control of the mobile Web environment through Android, in the view of some industry analysts.
In a press conference today, Google officials said that although the Android team has developed its own browser for [...]
Google is to enter the internet browser market with the launch of Google Chrome.
Google’s big new idea is chrome-plated
The search giant is set to launch the beta version of the new platform in 100 countries.
It said in a blog: “We realised that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications [...]
