This week at MWC 2012, Eric Schmidt stood on stage with Hugo Barra, speaking about Chrome for mobile, a web browser that allows you to connect to your own profile. Barra took the opportunity to show off Chrome web browser on stage to show off the excellence of the browser in real time - fast as can be. He made sure to note that though this browser is working on a mobile platform, it's still Android, and as he says, it doesn't really matter that it's mobile because "Android is a real operating system."
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Google’s Hugo Barra: “Android is a real operating system”
Google Do Not Track extension for Chrome available now
After much discussion today on how the Google Chrome web browser's up and coming "Do Not Track" button would be applied to the browser in future versions, Google has gone ahead and released a preliminary extension to make it so. This extension is one that anyone can click to install on their Google Chrome browser with ease, the functionality of it very likely to simply be baked in to future Google Chrome releases. This extension acts to opt your web browser out of online ad personalization via cookies once and for all - permanently.
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Control your web browser privacy in five easy steps
There’s an abnormally large amount of attention being payed to so-called privacy here at the start of 2012, and Google’s “Do Not Track” button has fired up the stove for further fanning of flames here in late February. There’s a lot of ways to “protect” yourself in the connected, mobile, and communicative world of today, but none is better than this: just keep away from the keyboard. What I’m saying is that should a person want to have total and complete severance from tracking on the web, there’s only one way: stop using it. For everyone else in the world that wants to be realistic, here’s five steps that will lead you to glory.
Google Chrome Password Generator tosses logic in the trash
There’s a feature coming out in a future version of Chrome (either the browser or the OS or both) which will generate a password for you, one “impossible” for a human to remember, and sync that password across your Chrome account. The reason this method is terrible, I must explain, is that unless this generator also creates a password as long as the system will let it, it’s actually just as easy for a machine to crack as one you’d be able to remember on your own, without Chrome’s help. This system is made supposedly to keep human password crackers at bay, but the developers at Chrome don’t seem to be taking into account that these humans generally don’t use their knowledge of you to crack your secrets in the first place.
Google Chrome web browser updated to reflect mobile release
Yesterday we saw the dropping of the first Android-based Chrome browser, made specifically to work with Android devices with version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and higher working on them. Today we're seeing an update of Chrome for desktop computers (the web browser, not the operating system) which integrates the functionality of the mobile release perfectly, including the pre-loading of content amongst many other tinier changes. It's time to adopt Chrome for all your platforms all over again!
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Dear Readers: why do you still use Internet Explorer?
This week we’ve learned two very important facts regarding the most infamous web browser of all, Internet Explorer: first that Microsoft intends to auto-update all of their older versions for users to the newest IE version 9, and second that Google Chrome 15 is now the most popular web browser version in the world. Though when you add up all the users using ANY version of Internet Explorer, you find that it still dominates this planet by a long shot, it’s still rather interesting that any one browser has taken the lead over the ultra-dominant browser made so fantastically giant by its pre-installed status on Windows-toting machines worldwide. So what’s your excuse?
Google Chrome browser reinvigorates Native Client push for game developers
When it comes to promoting your web browser to the internet, it can get pretty meta pretty quick, and but when your Google and you've got your hands in every single technologically related outlet on the planet and you want to even promote one component of a product you've got, you should have no trouble -- that's what Google is doing here with "Native Client" integration on their Chrome web browser. Having announced the game store for Google Chrome earlier this year along with Native Client, aka NaCl for short, it became rather apparent to many that this was no joke - real high-quality games could definitely sit in this space - now Google is seeing other groups like SpaceTime Studios adopt NaCl for themselves and they've decided to sound the horn once more.
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Acer Chromebook Announced
At the second Google I/O keynote a duo of Chromebooks were announced. First there was a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook that had two colors and a 3G as well as wifi version, then there’s this one: the Acer Chromebook. The devices were detailed just a bit at this event, and we don’t have a specific name for the Acer yet. A 12.1 inch display, dual core Intel Atom processor, all-day battery life, 8 second boot, and available for $349 and up. Sound sort of neat? Sounds totally neat. We have all the specs for you after the cut.
Angry Birds for Chrome Out Today [Special Edition VIDEO]
The Mighty Eagle took the stage at Google I/O during the second day's keynote to raving applause, his bright red hoodie with Angry Bird in tow. His announcement was that Angry Birds was coming to the biggest platform of all - the web. This version of Angry Birds will be running on Chrome to begin with and will be released in a Beta version. This version will be released at 60 frames per second easily (meaning it'll probably be better, if you know what i mean,) and it's built in WebGL. It also supports canvas, HD experience works, and it just plays so well!
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Google Chrome’s +1 Extension : Clear as Day
If you were here yesterday at about this time, you saw an article that yours truly had written about how Google Chrome was being promoted via an inspiring project that took a foothold and grew using the fantastic power of the internet and its quick and easy sharing abilities. Today it appears that the newest video in this series has let loose a Google Chrome extension that adds to the repertoire of a perhaps soon to be explosive Google project that works with their search results (and much more, we must assume,) it being called simply: +1. Did they mean to leak this image, or was it just a tiny mistake?
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Google Chrome Promoted with Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project
Below you’ll see a commercial for Google Chrome which uses a project by gay-rights activist Dan Savage. The project he speaks about that eventually ties itself in with Google Chrome is the “It Gets Better” project. You’ve almost certainly seen a video from the It Gets Better project, and if you haven’t, you’ve probably seen a parody of one of the videos and not even realized it. It’s a series of videos spread on YouTube started by one created by Dan Savage, a fellow who had a difficult time in high school, getting harassed and bullied because he was gay. His message was, and still is now, that “it gets better.” Over time, and through the realization that he was not alone, it got better for him, and it’ll get better for everyone else in similar situations. But what does all that have to do with Google Chrome?
Nokia Drop Beta, from Nokia Labs
Nokia Labs released a beta for a new application. They posted a demo for a Google Chrome extension that allows the user to drop images and hyperlinks directly onto their Symbian OS equipped phone. Mark Guim demos the extension with a Nokia C7, or Nokia Astound here in the US. Take a look at Nokia Drop.
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