Recently ponying up $1 billion to buy Instagram and finally going public, Facebook seems to have a lot going on. The latest rumor surrounding the apex social network is that it may be looking to get into the web browsing business. In addition to this claim, the going word is that the house that Zuckerberg

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has long remained the top Web browser on the market, but it seems its glory days are long gone. According to StatCounter, a digital analytics site, Google Chrome pulled in 31.88 percent of the world’s Web traffic last week, making it the most popular browser available. IE barely trailed behind with 31.47

Google’s much lauded Chrome Web browser is reportedly set to invade Apple’s biggest stronghold: the iPhone and iPad. According to analyst group Macquarie Equities Research, Google is preparing to declare an all-out browser war by bringing a mobile version of Chrome to Apple’s devices later this year, possibly as soon as Q2. The significance of

Rick Stratton had no idea what was going on. As founder of Feed.us, he would’ve loved to have been featured on a high-profile tech blog. But his venture didn’t get the attention — his face did when it happened to appear in a screengrab used in a 2011 TechCrunch story. How ironic. And Stratton totally

Thanks to a job listing on TweetDeck’s website, we know the company is hard at work on building its “next generation” of Android applications. But it hasn’t forgotten about TweetDeck for desktops. In fact, a new version has been released today that brings a stack of new features to the Twitter client for Mac and

The two may be in competition year round, but that doesn’t mean they can’t do a little business on the side as well. According to Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter, Apple made $1 billion off Google in 2011 just by having it as the default search engine in Safari. With the iPhone, iPad and, to a

If you were too distracted by Apple’s sneaky marketing tactics on Tuesday, Google did in fact have a keynote at Mobile World Congress. You didn’t know? Executive Eric Schmidt put himself in front of a Barcelona crowd where much of the focus was on what the future holds for technology as a whole. “Technology could

Google unveiled a beta of Chrome for Android earlier this month and the company is already discussing the future of the mobile browser. In an interview with CNET, Google’s Senior Vice President of Chrome Sundar Pichai said that his team will release frequent updates for Chrome on Android and that, in a year, the company will

Google’s incredibly popular desktop browser Chrome is finally going mobile. The search giant announced on Tuesday Chrome for Android Beta, which promises to bring the same browsing experience users know and love into the mobile space. “The browser on your phone can be just like the one on your computer,” the video says. The catch?

Seems you either hate Internet Explorer 6 or… well, I don’t know anyone who actually loves it. Say what you will, though, this version of the Microsoft browser has been no slouch when it comes to longevity… until now, that is. It seems the 10-year-old browser is finally making way toward the scrap heap in

Bastion was one of the most well-received, critically acclaimed downloadable titles of 2011. In fact, I’ll wager you’ll see it come out on top of independent game of the year categories for publications all over print and the Internet. The project originally released on the Xbox LIVE Arcade platform. Less than a month later, the game

With all the talk of smartphone and tablet wars, OS wars, PC/laptop wars, it’s easy to forget about one of the key technological battles: the Web browser wars. Latest casualty? Internet Explorer. Last month, its popularity hit its lowest level in more than 10 years, falling below 50 percent of all web usage. It’s the

Google has introduced a new tab page to its Chrome web browser that makes it easier to manage your apps and your most-visited sites. The feature comes with version 15 of Google Chrome, which was released earlier today. As the video demonstrates, you can now navigate between different sections of the page using the tabs

The numbers for July of which Web browsers are winning the current browser wars shows a dark horse coming up on the outside that no one seems to be watching very closely. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous. All measurements are according

Having 40 bajillion tabs open when a browser suddenly crashes has got to be the second-most annoying thing about Web work. The number-one most annoying thing, though, is the blaring video, music or ad stream that inevitably comes up when you re-launch the program. I don’t know what’s worse — being blasted with sudden blaring

This past May during the Google I/O developers’ conference, Google announced the forthcoming availability of Chromebooks, the consumer-facing evolution of their Chrome OS-based CR-48 laptop pilot program. Where CR-48 was a limited edition, free to the chosen few, beta program, Chromebooks were to be a straight-up commercial product, initially available in a handful of flavors from two

I have a funny relationship with Apple’s Safari web browser. There are a number of reasons why I love it: I’ve used it for so long it’s more familiar than any other browser; it syncs my MobileMe bookmarks seamlessly; and it has some awesome new features, such as Reading List and full-screen mode. However, there

If you were to look in an urban dictionary under “viral video,” it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if you saw OK Go listed there. Remember the famous treadmill music vid for “Here It Goes Again”? Well, here they go again. The band’s tech bent is on display with its latest video, set to the

Still using Internet Explorer? Well, I’ve got to hand it to you: It takes guts in today’s tech climate. Looking around the webs, it seems the Microsoft browser doesn’t get a whole lot of love or respect. As if to punctuate the sentiment, results from an online IQ test were released recently, and it suggests

The numbers are in for June of which Web browsers were leading the way for the month, and once again Google Chrome cracked through another barrier. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous. All measurements are according to NetMarketshare. It was just last

The numbers are in for May of which Web browsers were leading the way for the month, and there was a surprising shift in which browser showed the most growth. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous. All measurements are according to NetMarketshare.

Lady Gaga, whose “Born This Way” album is currently choking Amazon with its popularity, is renowned for more than just her music. She’s actually a bona fide tech head who has presented at CES (as a creative director for Polaroid), collaborated with the app developer of Farmville and even took a break from the busy

During Google’s annual conference for developers recently, the technology monolith announced its plans to launch its Chrome OS to the world in June. Touting a plethora of cloud-based features, Google is claiming that its operating system requires no virus protection to remain secure. If we have learned anything over the many years that we have

Annually, Google holds its “Innovation in the Open” conference to inform developers about updates to their numerous platforms, asking for their support while demonstrating new technologies. Though the company is more than willing to announce new devices and garner popular support, the conference is truly meant to attract programmers and strategists to Android and Chrome

Here’s something you might not know: I used to be a school tech guy (check out the first bit of advice posted here). For five years I was a classroom teacher, showing the fine youth of our country how to make crazy things with computers. For some of that time I was officially my school’s