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Posted May 28, 2013, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web With Video
It’s been over three months since Opera announced it was dropping its own Presto web rendering engine in favor of Webkit, the same used by Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. Although an Android version has been around since March, today…
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Posted April 4, 2013, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web Breaking News
It’s been roughly two months since Opera announced it was dropping its own Presto web rendering engine in favor of Webkit, the same used by Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. The move was seen as an attempt to remain relevant in…
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Posted February 20, 2013, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
After years of throwing its weight behind Google's VP8 video codec (aka: WebM), Mozilla has officially slipped support for H.264 video into its Firefox Nightly builds -- but only for Windows 7 users. Although once a battle waged to fight…
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Posted February 13, 2013, 11:19 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
After years struggling to capture a bigger share of the browser market Opera has announced it is dropping its own Presto rendering engine in favor of WebKit -- the same engine used by Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. The move…
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Posted January 31, 2013, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Software
An interesting find made by astute French developer François Beaufort indicates Google Chrome will be getting a notification center soon. Beaufort discovered the addition while mulling over the source code for the latest build of Chromium -- the open-source project on…
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Posted November 14, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Software
Google silently rolled out an update to Chrome which featured an unusual change, apparently one worthy of an announcement on the Chrome Blog: improved Adobe Flash plug-in sandboxing. The company claims its new method of fortifying Flash makes Adobe's plug-in…
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Posted October 11, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Software
For the second time this year, hacker "Pinkie Pie" gave Google a run for its money -- and won. The clever hacker exploited yet another vulnerability in Chrome during the second Pwnium conference this year, netting himself (or perhaps herself)…
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Posted May 20, 2011, 6:23 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in TechSpot, Software Breaking News
Chrome OS notebooks from Acer and Samsung are expected to launch next month at $349 and $429, respectively. The fact that you can get a more powerful netbook with Windows 7 pre-installed for roughly the same price, or even less, is already putting some people off.

But that doesn't mean you should disregard Google's operating system without so much as giving it a try, especially since it's available as a free download for you to test on your own hardware. We'll show you how to create a bootable USB flash drive with Chrome OS or run the it using a free virtual machine.
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Posted March 16, 2011, 11:45 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Google Chrome will be getting a new logo in the next version. Those on the dev branch are already seeing it in version 11.0.696.12 dev.
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