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Chrome for iOS hits US App Store

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Chrome for iOS, announced at Google IO just a few hours ago, has already begun to hit the App Store, though there's a sting if you're expecting the full Google browser experience. The new browser is the latest iteration of Chrome, bringing features like tab sync to iPhone and iPad; however, it's not built on the speedy underlying engine of Chrome on other platforms, such as Android. Read The Full Story

Sergey Brin talks Project Glass at IO 2012

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Finishing up the Keynote here Google's own Sergey Brin is showing us a bit more on Project Glass. In case you missed it, yesterday they jumped out of a blimp and landed right on top of the Moscone West Center here in San Francisco for Google IO, and managed to show it all live as a Google+ Hangout thanks to Google Glass. Read The Full Story

Sergey Brin shows off Google Glass Sunglasses

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google's Sergey Brin has shown off the sunglasses-version of Google Glass, taking to the roof of the Moscone Center to demonstrate how the incredible skydiving stunt yesterday was done. So far, Google Glass has only really been shown with open eyepieces, though some of the Google testers have worn the wearable computer over the top of their own prescription eyeglasses. Read The Full Story

Google I/O attendees score free Chromebox

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Remember Google’s Chromebox? The company is giving attendees at I/O one of the machines absolutely free. That’s not a bad present on top of the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus Q, and Nexus 7s that were given away yesterday. If you recall, the Chromebox is running Google’s Chrome OS and is designed to be a lightweight PC for basic multimedia and productivity tasks. Read The Full Story

Cirque du Soleil demos motion-tracking virtual acrobats in your browser

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

First there was skydiving Google Glass; now Google IO has brought us Cirque du Soleil in the browser. The famous acrobatics company took the IO stage to show how they'd used web technologies to put motion-tracking dance and interaction into Chrome. The webcam of a Chromebook was used to follow the movements of the user, all rendered in smooth 3D; even more impressive, it all worked in the browser on a tablet, too. Read The Full Story

Google Chrome Web Store gets gaming boost

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Today during Google's second day keynote they are talking about Chrome, and the Chrome Web Store. Reminding us about gaming with Chrome, and gaming in the cloud. With Chrome games can stream online with any internet connected device, and Google has improved Chrome in many key areas to help with performance and more. Read The Full Story

Google Compute Engine challenges Amazon with thousands of cores

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google has launched Google Compute Engine, an Amazon EC2 rivaling infrastructure-as-a-service that "just works" for scalable virtual machines. App Engine powers over 1m active applications each day, Urs Holze, Google Senior VP of infrastructure, said during the Google IO keynote today, and now developers will be able to harness the power of the search giant's server farm themselves. Read The Full Story

Chromebooks hit retail via Best Buy

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Google Chromebook experience has been boosted this week to physical retail stores all across the United States with Best Buy and in the UK as well. This is the next generation of Chromebooks because before now it was essentially only online that you'd be able to purchase such a notebook. This news comes amid Chrome OS updates that would in the very near future bring on more speed, smoother action, and much more cloud workability with Google Drive. Read The Full Story

Google releases Drive SDK 2.0

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google looks to be getting serious in its quest for online storage, announcing some new features at the Day 2 I/O keynote that will take on competitors like Dropbox and Evernote. One of those is in the introduction of Google Drive SDK 2.0, which will allow app developers for Android and iOS to implement Drive functionality straight into their mobile apps. Read The Full Story

Google Drive hits the iPad and iPhone

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

It was once again time to speak about the cloud this week at Google I/O 2012, with Google Drive being revealed as being able to be connected to both iOS and Chrome OS. This update has the software connections for both the iPad and the iPhone and comes with a OCR search and lots of lovely image and text recognition built-in. You're able to search through your photos and find the ones you want based on the content in the images - search for pyramids and you'll get your images with pyramids in them. Read The Full Story

Google Docs offline editing added today

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google has added offline editing to Google Docs, allowing users to open and edit their text, spreadsheet and other documents even when they don't have an internet connection. Announced today at the second Google IO keynote, the new offline Google Docs system uses local caching to save the latest copy of any documents changed, automatically synchronizing whenever a connection is restored. Read The Full Story

Chrome hits the iPhone and iPad

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the Google Chrome browser has been introduced for the iPhone. The Chrome browser started up Google I/O's 2012 keynote on the second day of the event, with Chrome as a browser connecting with Chrome as a browser as an operating system being shown to connect across any number of devices. Of course we'd seen much of this in the past as Google Chrome has been connected in this Google accounts way for several months. This browser is able to rather able, as its been demonstrated today, to work from a laptop to a Chromebook to a smartphone to a Nexus 7 tablet and back. Read The Full Story
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