20 Feb 12 Google has High Hopes for Chrome on Mobile Devices
Google’s Android operating system and Chrome web browser have been parts of the Mountain View based company’s dual strategies however, Chrome web store is still in its infancy and Google has high hopes for the browser and its future on mobile devices.
Senior vice president of Chrome and Apps at Google Inc., Sundar Pichai, talked at length about various aspects and plans of the company at the closing keynote discussion of the 2012 Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference held on Thursday.
Pichai thinks that mobile web is in the stage of infancy at present and the market will be flourishing across the next three to five years.
At present, Google Chrome has approximately 200 million users all over the world and even though it is mainly desktop experience but as components of Google’s dual strategy the browser has started to appear on mobile devices.
In fact, just a week ago the company launched a beta version of the Chrome browser for Android smartphones powered by Android 4.0 or the Ice Cream Sandwich. The high profile executive also disclosed that “future of Chrome” is to roll out the platform over smartphones as well as tablet computers, reported ZD Net.
Pichai thinks that, “Users expect a seamless, integrated experience across devices,” and thus Google wants to provide them with that.
Article source: http://www.itproportal.com/2012/02/19/google-has-high-hopes-for-chrome-on-mobile-devices/
Tags: Google Inc, Ice Cream Sandwich, Mountain View, Sundar Pichai
01 Feb 12 Google Gets Into the Watch Business
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C’mon everyone, that joke sold itself! But seriously, Google started selling branded watches in its company store in Mountain View for those who wanted to show their love for Chrome, Android and “Google” on their wrists, and now these timepieces are available online.
The watches, created in part with Modify Watches, seem to be a retro nod to the 1980s era Swatch Watches. They feature analog faces with interchangeable, color bands to give you choices.
Choices. What else would you expect from a watch that is an homage to a search engine?
The Google watches are made from stainless steel and polycarbonate casing and are water resistant to 3 atm (or just shy of 100 feet). They come in two sizes — large and small — so ladies don’t think you won’t have a chance to show your browser fangirl status.
It may not be haute couture, but given how passionately people embrace one browser or platform over the other I have no doubt there will be a few takers for this watch.
(Note: I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that a search on Google for Google watches did not offer up the link to buy the watch in the Google Store . I’m sure they are tweaking the algorithm as we speak.)
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Article source: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Google-Gets-Into-the-Watch-Business-138419019.html
Tags: Google Store, Modify Watches, Mountain View, Swatch Watches
16 Dec 11 Google’s Chrome browser overtakes Internet Explorer 8
That’s what StatCounter is reporting.
It says Chrome topped Internet Explorer 8 in the last week of November, when Chrome took 23.6% of the global market and IE8 took 23.5%.
Of course, if you combine all of the versions of Internet Explorer, it’s still the browser champ. And in the United States, Internet Explorer is still on top, with 27% of the market.
So what’s driving the growth? Aodhan Cullen, chief executive of StatCounter, says businesses as well as consumers are adopting Chrome.
Microsoft, which includes Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system, used to have a lock on the browser market. Google didn’t even enter the market until 2008.
But Chrome recently surpassed Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser, which it used to support. Firefox launched in 2004 and drove innovation in the market, which was dominated by Internet Explorer since IE overtook Netscape’s browser in the late 1990s.
Google CEO Larry Page was always a proponent of Google’s getting into the browser market. Google began to build a browser in 2006, concerned that existing browsers were not good enough to support its online services or might lead users away from its search engine. (Microsoft uses Internet Explorer to send users to its own Bing search engine.)
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Photo: The logo for the Google Chrome Web browser is shown during a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in September 2008. Photo credit: Paul Sakuma / Associated Press.
Article source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/12/google-chrome-internet-explorer.html
Tags: Google Chrome Web, Internet Explorer, Mountain View, RELATED
14 Dec 11 Chrome 16 adds multiple user account support
Another six weeks, another Google Chrome release. To close out 2011, you’ll be running Chrome 16 and there’s one key feature the folks at Mountain View want to introduce to you: multiple user accounts.
The feature arrived on Chrome’s beta channel early last month, and it provides a handy way to keeps favorites and login information separate on a shared computer. That is to say, on a computer you share with people you trust, like family and close friends. See, there’s no password protection offered. Switching between accounts is a two-click operation, and it’s not the kind of feature you’d want to tap into on a computer located in a library or hotel lobby.
Even on a family PC, you might not want to set up multiple accounts if you’ve got autofill payment information stored and passwords remembered for online shopping sites. You don’t need any Justin Bieber biographies being surreptitiously purchased from Amazon by a youngster with just enough internet savvy to execute a one-click order now, do you?
For those of you who like to maintain separate profiles for workday and after-hours browsing, however, multiple profiles is a very welcome addition to Chrome. Keep all those productivity-killing bookmarks filed away in one profile and your favorite apps and tools in another. You can also use it to roll different sets of extensions and Chrome Web Apps for on-the-fly switching.
If you’re looking for a secure way to let multiple people use Chrome on a single computer and you still want things kept separate and secure, head to your operating system’s settings screens and add a new account or two and set up a password.
More at Google
Article source: http://www.geek.com/articles/news/chrome-16-adds-multiple-user-account-support-20111213/
Tags: Chrome Web Apps, Google Chrome, Justin Bieber, Mountain View
22 Nov 11 ‘Chrome Revolver Bandit’ Arrested in Alameda Co.
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Police say he is responsible for three dozen robberies from San Francisco to San Jose and Hayward to Redwood City.
Ricky Sanders, 34, of Oakland was arrested on Nov. 7 in Alameda County according to The Daily Journal. He was dubbed the “Chrome Revolver Bandit” by police.
San Mateo police say Sanders is also wanted for robberies in San Jose, Daly City, Colma, Redwood City, Pacifica, San Bruno, Fremont, San Leandro and Mountain View. During an Oct. 8 robbery at at PetSmart in San Mateo, Sanders allegedly shot a clerk. The clerk survived.
Police plan to try him San Mateo County first.
Article source: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Chrome-Revolver-Bandit-Arrested-in-Alameda-Co-134320438.html
Tags: Mountain View, Redwood City, San Jose, San Mateo
18 Nov 11 Evernote Clearly makes websites clean for easy reading
CBS) – Reading articles online has become part of our daily lives, so the software development company Evernote created a Google Chrome extension that creates a Zen-like experience.
Released yesterday, Clearly is an Chrome extension the strips a webpage down to only text and images on a solid background. And if you’re reading a multipage article, Clearly collects the entire article on one page.
You can choose from three presets that have varying fonts and background colors. It’s an amazing tool if you spend all day in front of a computer reading articles. More information is available at Evernote.
Evernote is a desktop client that lets you save files, text, web clips and images through their software, the web or mobile app. The company launched in Jan. 2008 and is based in Mountain View, Calif.
Here’s what a sample article looks like before:
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After:
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Article source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57326926-501465/evernote-clearly-makes-websites-clean-for-easy-reading/
11 Nov 11 Google acquires Apture to boost Chrome team
Google’s latest purchase is Apture, a startup that focuses on providing instant access to information with in-page search technology.
Also self-defined as a “glossary for the web,” Apture’s features include boosting 2D websites into enhanced multimedia experiences in which readers better find related information as the text literally jumps off the page. This contextual search function was designed to increase revenue opportunities for publishers, including such customers as The New York Times and The Financial Times.
For example, you might have noticed some of this technology when reading The NYT’s website, and you might have double-clicked and/or highlighted a word, which then brings up a definition or query.
The beneficiary of the purchase will be Chrome, so we can possibly expect to see some major changes related to this technology in the coming months.
Financial details of the merger as well as an expected date on when the deal will close have not been revealed yet, but there was a note posted on the front door of Apture. Here’s an excerpt:
After enhancing more than a billion pages with our products, we think now is the best time to expand our efforts with another team just down the road that shares our vision of making the web better.
That’s right — we’ve been acquired by Google and will be joining the Chrome team to continue driving innovation and creating a better user experience on the web. The modern web is an amazing platform, so stay tuned for even more enhancements to your Chrome browsing experience.
As the memo states, Apture’s staff will be joining the Chrome team, but it still isn’t clear whether or not the group will stay put at Apture’s San Francisco office or move down to the Mountain View headquarters.
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Article source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-acquires-apture-to-boost-chrome-team/63155
Tags: Barnes Noble, Mountain View, Review Google Pages, San Francisco
11 Nov 11 Google buys Apture to bolster Chrome browser
Google’s latest purchase is Apture, a startup that focuses on providing instant access to information with in-page search technology.
Also self-defined as a “glossary for the Web,” Apture’s features include boosting 2D Web sites into enhanced multimedia experiences in which readers better find related information as the text jumps off the page. This contextual search function was designed to increase revenue opportunities for publishers, including such customers as The New York Times and The Financial Times.
For example, you might have noticed some of this technology when reading the New York Times Web site, and you might have double-clicked and/or highlighted a word, which then brings up a definition or query.
The beneficiary of the purchase will be Chrome, so we can possibly expect to see some major changes related to this technology in the coming months.
Financial details of the merger as well as an expected date on when the deal will close have not been revealed yet, but there was a note posted on the front door of Apture. Here’s an excerpt:
After enhancing more than a billion pages with our products, we think now is the best time to expand our efforts with another team just down the road that shares our vision of making the web better.
As the memo states, Apture’s staff will be joining the Chrome team, but it still isn’t clear whether the group will stay put at Apture’s San Francisco office or move to the Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.
This story was originally published at ZDNet’s Between the Lines with the headline “Google acquires Apture to boost Chrome team.”
Article source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57322553-93/google-buys-apture-to-bolster-chrome-browser/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=
11 Nov 11 Google buys Apture to bolster Chrome browser
Google’s latest purchase is Apture, a startup that focuses on providing instant access to information with in-page search technology.
Also self-defined as a “glossary for the Web,” Apture’s features include boosting 2D Web sites into enhanced multimedia experiences in which readers better find related information as the text jumps off the page. This contextual search function was designed to increase revenue opportunities for publishers, including such customers as The New York Times and The Financial Times.
For example, you might have noticed some of this technology when reading the New York Times Web site, and you might have double-clicked and/or highlighted a word, which then brings up a definition or query.
The beneficiary of the purchase will be Chrome, so we can possibly expect to see some major changes related to this technology in the coming months.
Financial details of the merger as well as an expected date on when the deal will close have not been revealed yet, but there was a note posted on the front door of Apture. Here’s an excerpt:
After enhancing more than a billion pages with our products, we think now is the best time to expand our efforts with another team just down the road that shares our vision of making the web better.
As the memo states, Apture’s staff will be joining the Chrome team, but it still isn’t clear whether the group will stay put at Apture’s San Francisco office or move to the Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.
This story was originally published at ZDNet’s Between the Lines with the headline “Google acquires Apture to boost Chrome team.”
Article source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57322553-93/google-buys-apture-to-bolster-chrome-browser/
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