The hardware of the CR-48 is a lot of fun to talk about, and is really impressive. Please note however that in a lot of ways it is irrelevant, because by the time Chrome Notebooks start being marketed and sold, they will most likely be much different. This will not stop me from telling you about the CR-48 and all of its simple goodness.
I am not the luckiest person in the world, and when I came home today to a mysterious package I figured it was a bomb or something that would bring pain and disdain to my household. Little did I know inside of the box was one of the most wanted piece of free technology around. Yes, I had received the Chrome Notebook from Google. After having spent a few hours with it, I am going to...
The November report for browser market share is out, and once again it’s a month of incredible growth for Google Chrome while Internet Explorer hits a new low for the year. Lets take a look at the chart so far for this year according to the measurements of NetMarketshare. Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari Jan 2010 5.22% 24.43% 62.12% 2.38% 4.53% Feb 2010 5.61% 24....
The Google Chrome OS was announced on July 7, 2009, but since then there has only been dribs and drabs of information about what it would do, when it would come out and what it might cost. While we didn’t get detailed answers to all of these points, we certainly know more than we have ever known before about Google’s initial entrance into the operating system market. Initially Chrome...
Little by little, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is losing its market share. While the losses aren’t anything huge, the numbers for April show that it has hit an all time low for any modern version of the browser. It is now back in the range of what it enjoyed with Internet Explorer 4 in 1999 according to ConceivablyTech. Lets take a look at how this year is treating the five big...
When Firefox 1.0 arrived on the browser scene in Nov. 2004, people went nuts for it. It was light-weight, it didn’t gobble up resources and, most importantly to a lot of people, it wasn’t made by Microsoft. It was fast and nimble, and people loved it. The problem is that ever since then it has gotten worse. With each release it seems to lose a bit of its speed, it appears to gobble...
Google has made a name for itself over the years by building some amazing applications such as its search engine and Gmail. However, it has also had some rather infamous flops such as Orkut, Google Wave, and the way Buzz seems to be going. So with a somewhat rocky road as of late, one has to wonder what exactly Google is going to make next. As of late, Google seems to be going in...
It would seem that not only is Google’s Chrome browser growing in market share, but its the only browser to be doing so. According to the latest data released from Net Marketshare, the available date posted for April 2009 through Feb. 2010 shows that Chrome was the only browser to show recent growth, and it is doing so at the expense of marketshare for the other four big browsers....
One of the major reasons a lot of people were waiting to switch to Google Chrome was because it didn’t support the extensions they fell in love with while using Firefox. With the release of the stable version of Google Chrome 4.0, that issue has now been solved, and already there are over 1500 extensions in the Google Extension Gallery. So, were do you start? We’ve got five...
Recent figures show Internet Explorer's browsing dominance continuing to decline. France and Germany advising web users to drop the browser altogether after a recent security scare. Can Microsoft survive the latest battle in the browser wars?