Google’s Chrome Web browser topped 10.7 percent market share through January, up from 10 percent through December 2010. Safari grew as well, while IE 9 is performing better. – Google’s
Chrome Web browser continued to grow through the first month of 2011, reaching
10.7 percent market share through January, up from 10 percent through December
2010.
Researcher Net
Applications also noted that Apple’s Safari rose to 6.3 percent
from 5.9 percent over the same period. Thi…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation gives the nod to Mozilla’s Firefox behavioral tracking opt-out tool over Google’s Chrome Keep My Opt Outs browser extension. Find out why here. – Mozilla Firefox received the early edge over the Google Chrome Web browser
in a head-to-head match-up of software tools that let users elude ad-tracking
cookies, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Mozilla Jan. 23 introduced its Do Not Track HTTP header that will allow users
to opt…
Google has released a new Chrome extension to address privacy concerns tied to online behavioral tracking. – Google has thrown its own hat into the ring in efforts to address privacy
concerns related to online behavioral tracking.
Roughly 24
hours after Mozilla pitched its idea for a “Do Not Track” mechanism for
Firefox, Google announced an extension for the Google Chrome browser that
will allow use…
Google clarifies its position on dropping H.264 support for its Chrome Web browser: it no longer wants to support the patent royalty system instituted by H.264 owner MPEG LA. – Google said it would not support H.264 as a baseline
video codec standard for HTML video because it refuses to accept the licensing
requirements imposed by H.264 proprietor MPEG LA.
Google Jan. 11
dropped a bombshell on the video content industry when it said it would no
longer support H.2…
Google is canning support for the H.264 video codec standard espoused by Apple and Microsoft in favor of its open-source WebM and the Theora codecs. Media immediately flags BS. – Google Jan. 11 said it would no longer support the H.264 video
codec standard for its Chrome Web browser, an effort to push its open source WebM
codec and the Theora codec.
Google Chrome Product Manager Mike Jazayeri said these codecs, which encode and
decode video and audio content in the Web b…
Google Chrome takes another step toward enterprise suitability with enterprise-ready installation packages and configuration options that will allow IT administrators to centrally manage the availability, freshness and operational behavior of Googles Web browser. In December, Google released a new Windows installer package compatible with standard enterprise software deployment tools, along with a set of new policy templates for use with Windows Active Directory (along with some deployment help for Linux and Mac desktops as well). Using only Group Policy, I was able to push Chrome to my managed desktops& overwriting any existing Chrome instances& and configure 36 different browser functions, including the homepage, default search provider and history- and password-saving behaviors. I was also able to blacklist the use of certain, or all, browser extensions. To read the full review, check out "Google Chrome Delivers Enterprise Deployment and Management". Or if you have experience with Google Chrome and managing the browser via Active Directory, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
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Google Chrome looks ever more ready for IT-sanctioned use on
enterprise Windows PCs, as Google delivered new enterprise-ready installation
packages and configurat…
If you hadn’t already heard, the guys over at Google recently announced that more than 120 million people are now using Chrome. These millions of users consist of both regular people like you and me as well as businesses. In recent months, many businesses have become interested in learning how to make the most of [...]
The Google Chrome Web browser finished 2010 just shy of 10 percent, notching 9.98 percent market share. Expect more growth in 2011 with the launch of Chrome OS notebooks. – Google’s Chrome Web browser finished 2010 just shy of the 10 percent mark,
notching 9.98 percent of browser market share through December in a year where
it started at 5.2 percent.
It’s also a big hike from November, when Google grabbed 9.27 percent share, up from 8.5 percent in
October, accor…
So, did you know you can “chrome for a cause?â€Â Well, you can and we think it is pretty cool. Throughout 2010, Chrome has been art of plenty of fun, inventive, explorative, and interesting projects and events. Now, the guys at Google can add charitable to that list. Wondering what we’re talking about? The guys [...]
Opera 11 shipped Dec. 16 with new extensions, tab stacking and visual navigation aids that put the web browser on a competitive footing with Microsoft’s IE. The features add productivity and conveninece to the Opera experience and could be compelling advantages for web users who need quick access to many different web pages at the flick of a wrist. – Opera 11 debuted Dec. 16 running on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms
and now equipped with stackable tabs, visual mouse navigation aids and
extensions that add useful widgets to the full-featured Web browser. As
I noted in a first look at the alpha version, Opera 11 is stepping into
competitive …
Internet Browsers these days are on a competition course with various tech giants introducing updates and new UI to their version of the Internet Browsers. Recently, a survey company named as StatCounter released its data on the usage of the browsers globally in the month of September.
News Analysis: Googles Chrome OS platform will undoubtedly take the tech world by storm in 2011. But that doesnt mean it has what it takes for long term success. – Googles Chrome OS platform could potentially be a
major headline-stealer in 2011. Not only does it come from one of the
most important (and prominent) tech companies in the industry, but it
delivers a unique operating system experience that consumers and even
some enterprise customers will be ke…
Google defends Chrome OS and the cloud from Richard Stallman, who characterized the effort as designed to push people into "careless computing." Analysts weigh in. – When it comes to cloud computing and the idea that
Google’s new Chrome Operating System can be a reliable portal for that
movement, people either like the idea or hate it.
Chrome OS is Google’s operating system to the cloud, running
Web applications
in the Chrome Web browser. Google stores thes…
Any child of the 80′s will recognize the Speak & Spell. If you want to remember your childhood or help ET call home with a bit more modern style blakemedia has a cool sticker for the back of your iPhone that makes it look like the Speak & Spell. iKit whipped out a cool new [...]
Google built an MSI Installer to let IT administrators easily deploy the Chrome browser on computers across a business, thus laying the foundation for Chrome OS in the enterprise. – Google Dec. 15 made its Chrome Web browser enterprise friendly, launching a
tool that lets IT administrators provision the software to Windows, Mac and
Linux computers across a business.
Chrome has more than 120 million users who have downloaded the browser to their
personal computers and la…
Google Dec. 8 began rolling out the Cr-48, an unbranded notebook equipped with its Chrome Operating System, the Web operating system that enables Web applications run on Google’s Chrome Web browser. The Cr-48 lies at the heart of the Chrome OS Pilot Program, Google’s effort to seed the market with the notebooks, get feedback and polish the product prior to launch on branded machines from Acer and Samsung in mid-2011. Google is issuing the gadgets& which run on WiFi networks and also sport 3G radios with 100MB a month of data free for two years& to partner companies, friends, some lucky consumers and the media. In December, eWEEK got its hands on one of these plain, black no-frills notebooks. It sports a 12.1-inch screen, delivers 8 hours of use time and allows no internal data storage. The notebook is a true cloud machine, which has its limits. There is as yet no capability to port photos from cameras and smartphones to the Chrome OS netbook. But this is compensated by a raft of possibilities. For example, Google has created its Google Cloud Print solution to give the Cr-48 access to Web-based printing. Take a look at this run-through, and see a review here. – …
Google’s Chrome OS Cr-48 notebook is a fine Web surfing machine, but it assumes too much of people with its slow directional pad. We’re not sure people will want to do work with it. – Google’s Chrome operating system Cr-48 notebook is a
newfangled mobile Web computing device that does a lot of what a netbook does,
serving Web applications via a browser.
It’s how users access those Web apps that is different
than a netbook. Not better, but definitely different.
Cr-48 is the …
News Analysis: Google’s Chrome OS platform might be in its infancy, but it is extremely important to the future success (or failure) of Google’s business. – Google’s
Web-based operating system, Chrome OS, is getting considerable attention as of
late, due to the company’s recent unveiling of more of the platform’s features.
Google is testing Chrome OS on computers to see how it holds up as a standard
operating system for users. There is some question…
Google officially launched the Chrome web store last week and also introduced the first netbook running the Chrome OS. As Google wants Chrome OS to be completely cloud based — meaning one doesn’t need to leave Chrome, the browser, at all — the need of a web store with apps that get things done becomes [...]
