Tom Krazit
Feb 7, 2012 12:46 PM
For years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) watchers have wondered why the company has used a unique browser on its Android software while maintaining a separate browser project in Chrome. Those days are over: Google has released a beta version of Chrome for Android, uniting two very important projects and raising questions…
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Tom Krazit
May 12, 2011 5:00 AM
You had to attend both days of *Google* I/O to get the full effect: having been present for just one of the two visions of mobile computing detailed by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) this week would have left you with the impression that the project you witnessed was the company’s brightest…
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Tom Krazit
May 11, 2011 5:37 PM
They’re nearly six months late, but the first systems running Chrome OS, which will henceforth be known as Chromebooks, were showcased Wednesday at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O ahead of their launch on June 15 in the U.S. Here’s a little more information about the systems themselves and what’s in store…
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Tom Krazit
May 11, 2011 3:10 PM
We’ve known that Chrome OS notebooks have been on Google’s agenda for a while, but it announced an interesting subscription-based program for businesses and educational institutions Wednesday at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O that could change the way those groups think about deploying mobile computers
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Tom Krazit
May 11, 2011 12:38 PM
The second day of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O was all about Google’s Chrome Web browser and its budding Chrome OS project. Google’s Chrome leader, Sundar Pichai, ran through a morning of announcements, which included pricing details on Chromebooks, welcome news about Angry Birds on the Web, and a business-oriented subscription…
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Joe Mullin
Jan 11, 2011 9:53 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has essentially declared war against the web’s dominant video format, announcing in a blog post today that Chrome will phase out support for the H.264 video codec that encodes most video online. Instead, Chrome, which now controls 10 percent of the browser market worlwide, will only support…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 10, 2009 11:14 AM
Google’s entry into the operating system market with Chrome OS should have obvious, broad impact not only on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) itself but also on its established relationships with other companies. At the Allen & Co. Media Conference Thursday, CEO Eric Schmidt (pictured left, with Bill Gates), along with Google…
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Matt Kapko
Sep 3, 2008 1:51 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin told CNET that he expects the company’s new Chrome browser to end up on the Android platform in a later version of the yet-to-be-released mobile phone operating system. Brin said Android and Chrome were developed separately but that a “subsequent version of Android is…
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