Chrome Web Store – A Success
Google has just announced that the Chrome Web Store has been a success thus far since it’s initial launch. Speaking just a few minutes ago, Google Product manager mentioned that since the launch of the Web Store, Google can report that users are now spending twice as much in App within the USA.
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 05:05 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla 
2 Comments Chrome Browser Hits 160 million Users!
The Tuesday session of Google I/O 2011 is underway and Google is gloating in the success of Chrome (Browser). According to Sundar Pichai (Product VP) the browser has now hit over 160 million active users. This is more that double the growth since Google I/O 2011 when the browser was at 70 million active users.
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 04:46 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
13 Comments HP Joins the Google Cloud Print
HP recently announced support for their printers on the Google Cloud Print. Users will be able to associate their printers to their Google Account through the printer’s unique email address and from there print items from either computers or mobile devices. What this allows HP Printer users to do is bypass drivers and additional software, PC connections, and other setting …
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 07:18 am GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
2 Comments Latest from the Lab: +1
Google has recently added another feature to their optional labs, +1, for websites and advertisements in their search results. It works like the ‘Like’ button for Facebook by pulling in information that you and/or your friends might find useful based on other +1s. Google hopes the added feature will result in better search results for users. The +1 feature has …
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 08:46 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
0 Comments Latest from the Lab: Google Talk Guru
It’s a busy time for the Chrome OS, what with getting ready for release, working on touch capabilities for later on, and constantly updating security features. There’s now a new product to Beta test called ‘Google Guru.’ It’s Google’s automated answering machine for those quick questions you need answers to rather than performing a web wide search. While it’s by …
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 02:53 am GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
0 Comments Google’s Approach to Friendly Hacking: Good Idea or Best Idea?
There’s been a long understanding between the world of hackers and software companies. They’re not supposed to like one another and each is working ever more diligently to ‘defeat’ and humiliate the other. It’s a crime-world of e-peen and secrecy and the status quo was understood by both sides. That is, until Google got involved. Their approach has certainly been …
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 03:32 am GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
0 Comments You Can Stream Video On a Cr-48… Really
If there is one thing the Google ChromeOS Cr-48 doesn’t do, that most think it should, it’s run streaming video from Netflix. I’ve never seen this as a big problem, but I know there are lots of people that want to watch video on their computers. The Cr-48 can handle running streaming video from Hulu and I was able to …
Sunday, January 16th, 2011 10:54 pm GMT +00:00 by
DWallace
10 Comments Google Shells Out $14k For Chrome Bugs
Sergey Glazunov, the first ever person to receive a reward for reporting a bug in Google’s Chrome Browser has done it again; but this time he’s brocken the record by recieving Google’s highest award yet. Sergey scooped the ‘elite’ award of $3,133.7 for what Google described as a “Critical Risk” in the current version of their browser:
Saturday, January 15th, 2011 01:35 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
1 Comment The Cr-48 running Chrome OS is so dull
After two weeks living in the cloud as part of the Google’s Pilot Program for its Chrome operating system and the Cr-48 laptop, I find the whole thing dull; that’s a good thing though.
Thursday, December 30th, 2010 12:45 am GMT +00:00 by
DWallace
26 Comments ‘Teach Parents Tech’ To The Rescue
A couple of weeks ago Google launched a new initiative to try and educate all ‘tech dumb’ parents how to use computers (properly). They launched a new website called ‘Teach Parents Tech which they hope will spare you the time and effort of explaining to your grandmother how to turn on a computer (for the hundredth time).
Sunday, December 26th, 2010 04:58 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
4 Comments A Letter to my Laptop
Since the arrival of my CR-46 “Chromebook” my laptop has been suffering from abandonment issues.
On my laptop I am running a dual boot Windows 7/Linux Mint. I also have Jolicloud installed within Windows. I would like to explain a few things to my laptop (Lilith) and have chosen to do so in a letter:
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 04:14 am GMT +00:00 by
MarkSeydel
12 Comments 7 Days in the Cloud
Inside I saw the Cr-48 box I had seen in a YouTube unboxing video and you guessed it, a Google ChromeOS Cr-48. Oh the magic of Christmas, long gone since my childhood, had returned to my warm my heart once more.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 07:25 pm GMT +00:00 by
DWallace
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