What is the ChromeOS Pilot Program?

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What is the ChromeOS Pilot Program?

“Along with thousands of random and unaffiliated pilot beta testers, the following corporate workers will be helping Google get a shine on the Chrome: reservation agents at American Airlines; the engineering, sales and marketing teams of Logitech; the sales team and store employees of Jason’s Deli; the hotel suites and call centers of Intercontinental Hotel Group; the production line employees at Kraft Foods; and every single employee of Virgin America — including the pilots.” Yes, I too hope that it is not while flying!

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Saturday, December 18th, 2010 11:12 pm GMT +00:00 by MarkSeydel comments

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Chrome 6 Beta Released – It’s Even Faster!

Today, Google announced that it will be releasing the Beta 6 version of it’s Chrome browser. For those who are subscribed to the Chromium dev channel, you will have received an automatic update to the new version of the browser. As shown by the graphs below, there are obvious improvements in Javascript rendering speeds when benchmarked against previous versions of …

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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 07:19 pm GMT +00:00 by Nigel Mabandla

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Google Tests New “Unified Menu” For Chrome

Google has started testing out a “unified menu” for Chrome similar to the one already in use by the Opera Browser. This new feature is now available for the latest Chromium and Chrome Dev builds and can be activated by adding the following command tag line to the application’s short cut

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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 08:07 pm GMT +00:00 by Nigel Mabandla

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Google Chrome Bites Chunk Out Of Apple – Kinda

According to StatCounter, a web tracking analytics company; Google’s Chrome OS has finally inched past Apple’s Safari while hitting 8.97% market share. On the other hand Microsoft’s Internet explorer still dominates the market at 52% market share followed by Mozilla’s Firefox at 28.5%.

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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 07:41 pm GMT +00:00 by Nigel Mabandla

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Chrome 5 Leaves Beta Stage – Enters Chrome 6

Chrome 5 has finally left beta testing stage and has been released for the public as a stable release by Google. As reported in our previous story on Chrome 5; this is an awesome browser. Arguably Google Chrome has finally left Firefox users with no reason to drop it and join in with the Google crowd.

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 12:12 am GMT +00:00 by Nigel Mabandla

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Google Chrome Hits 70 million Users

Yesterday during the first day of the I/O event, Google announced that it’s Chrome brower has hit the 70 million user mark. This is a sharp incnrease from barely a year ago when they annonced their 30 milliom users milestone.

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Thursday, May 20th, 2010 02:30 pm GMT +00:00 by Nigel Mabandla

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Ubuntu To Ditch Firefox For Chrome – it’s about time!

Rumours coming in are suggesting that Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 will be ditching Firefox as it’s browser of choice.For years now Ubuntu (a Linux based open source distro) has flaunted it’s seemingly happy illegitimate marriage to Mozilla’s Firefox.

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Saturday, May 15th, 2010 12:57 am GMT +00:00 by Nigel Mabandla

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Hexxeh unveils his new creation – ChromiumOS Flow

Hexxeh has released his latest build of Chromium OS; this update aims to be an improvement from the previous ChromiumOS Cherry. Below are the new fetures and improvements as announced on Hexxeh’s Blog:

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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 07:48 pm GMT +00:00 by Nigel Mabandla

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Hexxeh’s ChromiumOS Zero – It’s out!

The major improvement in this new build of Chrome OS over the previous builds is that it supports most of the WiFi chipsets. This new build also has a slight improvement in speed and a new boot time splash screen.

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