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Chrome to Pass Safari in Browser Market Share

Written on November 02, 2009 by Charles Jade and 18 people have commented

For October, OS X 10.6 and iPhone OS 3.0 continued to make incremental gains in market share, as did Safari. Unfortunately for the Apple web browser, Google’s Chrome is gaining faster.

Compiling data from more than 160 million visitors to its worldwide network of sites, web metrics firm Net Applications has released numbers for the month. [...]

Google Chrome OS: Hype, Hope or Humbug?

Written on July 09, 2009 by Tom Reestman and 15 people have commented

So there’s a new OS that’s based on the web, relies primarily on a web browser, and whose native apps are web apps. Old news, you say? We already know about Palm’s WebOS. No, I don’t mean that one. This one will primarily target netbooks. Still old news, you say, because we know a modified [...]

Google OS Announced: How Will it Affect Apple?

Written on July 08, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 22 people have commented

Late yesterday evening, the folks at Google made official what many have suspected for months, or even years: They’re working on an operating system. The new OS, dubbed Chrome OS after Google’s recent entry into the ongoing browser wars, will have speed and Internet connectivity as its two top priorities, and be based on a [...]

Developer Preview of Google Chrome for OS X Available

Written on June 07, 2009 by Charles Jade and 12 people have commented

An early version of Chrome is now publicly available for Mac users, at least what there is of it. As the Chromium Blog glibly posted, this release is intended for developers who take “great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.” Having caveated that, Chrome feels fast, faster than Safari, and that is [...]

Don’t Worry Mac Users, You’ll Get Your Chrome… Mid-Year

Written on January 12, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 7 people have commented

I’m still annoyed and perplexed that Google would release Chrome for Windows so far ahead of other platforms. At least now they’re finally putting some kind of timeline on when we might see it come to OS X, although the news is hardly comforting, if you’re as impatient as I am.
The latest from Google has [...]

Daily Apple: iTunes, iPhone, Chrome, & Anniversaries

Written on September 16, 2008 by Josh Pigford and No one has commented

Get iTunes 7’s Album View back in iTunes 8 – Think the album view from iTunes 7 is gone? Think again.
iPhoneModem – If you’re the jailbreaking type and want to share your iPhone’s internet connection with your computer, check this out. This unsupported app will set you back $10.
Remote 1.1 Released – Use your iPhone/iPod [...]