Google’s Chrome web browser has been taking the geek world by storm for some time now, even spawning Google’s somewhat failed attempt at making the browser the whole operating system with Chrome OS, but the truth is that what many would term ‘normal people’ just don’t use it.

From the people that I speak to in the real world and also via Twitter, there seems to be a common misconception that everyone who owns a smartphone immediately becomes an expert in how to extensively use that device, including the ins and outs of app installation. I know first hand that this simply isn’t the case and to a lot of people, a smartphone is just simply another mobile device and they are unable to make a distinction between a normal phone and a smartphone.

Google has opened up two Chrome Zones in London recently, Redmond Pie has learned. Google has opened these Chrome Zones to explain the advantages of cloud computing and cloud-oriented Chromebooks to the general public.

Chrome, the popular web browser developed by Google, has just been updated to version 14 and brings with it a few notable changes.

It is quite a popular question: “Why is the stock browser on Android called “Internet” instead of Chrome?”. While there is a logical answer to that, it appears that Google is now finally taking steps which may eventually lead to the Google Chrome branding being incorporated into Google Android.

Google seems to be implementing Skype-like technologies into Chrome, if a recent build of Chromium is any indication. For starters, the inclusion of this technology will allow video and audio chats though Google Talk without the need for a proprietary plugin. But what could this mean for the rest of the industry?

Google’s Chrome browser is probably the most streamlined and minimalistic of all major web browsers out there. Now Google is stripping out the address bar as we know it, and only displaying when it’s really necessary, at least if this obscure feature in the latest Canary build is brought down to the stable channel.

Rovio Mobile, the makers of smash hit mobile game Angry Birds announced a new browser-based version of the game at today’s Google I/O event.

We have had our bit of Google news lately. Primarily the big one was the release of the Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Google Nexus S, followed by the Chrome OS a few days back. Google also announced Chrome OS netbook for free to selected people in the US and reviews of the device have already started rolling out.

One feature which Android users have been asking for long was the ability to sync bookmarks with Google Chrome web browser. But now thanks to a nifty app called “Chrome to Phone” by Google, you can now send URLs / links from your computer running Google Chrome browser right to your Android device running Android 2.2 Froyo.

Just stumbled across this Android inspired theme for Google Chrome and thought I should share it with you all. If you happen to be an Android and Chrome user, you’ll fall in love with this theme.

The year 2009 can rightly be dubbed as the year of Netbooks. Almost every company from the technology world launched its own brand of Netbook into the world computer markets. The year 2010, on the other hand, started altogether on a different pace. Right at the break of the year, on 27th of the first month, Apple welcomed the new year with its mysterious product, iPad. This unique product, Apple Tablet was already talk of the town for last few months. After the unveiling of iPad, we now see a flood of rumors that are breaking out about various brands of Tablet every other day. Among these, HP Slate of Microsoft and Tablet from Google are the hottest in the rumor world. Year 2010, no doubt, will be the year of Tablets.

Google unveiled Chrome OS in an event yesterday where they demonstrated the upcoming cloud-based OS for the first time in public. Source code of Chrome OS was also released which folks over at gdgt have compiled in a ready-to-install .vmdk file. All you need now is a system running Windows, Linux or OS X with any of the virtualization software like VMware or VirtualBox installed to get Chrome OS running within minutes.

Its only been a few hours since Google spilled the beans on their upcoming Chrome OS, and now we already have a fully working VMware image of Chrome OS ready for download. All you need is a system running Windows, Linux or OS X with VMware installed and you are good to go. For those of you who don’t know, Google in an event yesterday, demonstrated the lightweight and open source operating system called Chrome OS for the first time.

Google as expected, has announced its much awaited Operating system, Google Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS represents Google’s view point of what an OS should be like in this era. Originally announced back in July of this year, Google wanted to target its open source OS initially for netbooks users to provide them fast experience using reduced boot and startup time. Speed, security and simplicity will be the main aspects of Chrome OS.

Google has kept quite on the subject of Chrome OS since its initial announcement in July of this year, but apparently, an unstable version of Google Chrome OS Browser from Google Chrome OS Build 28902 has been leaked by Jonathan Frederickson of Living in a Google World, and is now available for download. The version number of the leaked browser in question is 4.0.222.6 which is an integral part of Chrome OS Build 28902.

Google today announced an open source, light weight operating system which is specifically designed for the netbook computers (initially). It’s Google’s attempt to what operating systems should be in the year 2009. Chrome OS will be designed to work on both x86 and ARM architectures.

Well folks, it looks like the browsers war of 90’s is back! and this time its Google which joins the party of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and the likes.
After backing Firefox for a few years, Google today revealed their own web browser named “Google Chrome” to combat with both Microsoft’s Windows Internet Explorer and [...]