We reported yesterday about Google allegedly working on releasing Opera’s Turbo-type feature for its Chrome on Android to help speed up Internet browsing. Today, Google has introduced this feature on the Android version of the browser and also updated the iOS version by adding new features and security improvements. (more…)Google+

Google has released the beta build of Chrome 25, which adds voice commands to the web browser, which will allow users to use voice to browser through the web, including web apps. Users can test this feature here. (more…)Google+

Google has launched the Chrome Beta channel for Android 4.0+ smartphones and tablets. Previously, Google has had a Chrome Beta channel for PC, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS versions of the web browser. (more…)Google+

Google has blocked access to Twitpic.com, a popular photo sharing tool for Twitter, after identifying it as a malware risk. Some users are also complaining that Twitter’s own t.co URL shortener service is also broken at the moment but we are not sure if the two are incidents are linked in any manner. (more…)Google+

North Pole is really busy this time of the year with the elves checking the list of gifts, arranging them, feeding the reindeer and tuning the sleigh before the global flight as millions wait for Christmas. Google has been tracking Santa Claus since 2004 on Google Earth and this year they have come up with an algorithm to plot Santa’s journey around the world. Santa’s sleigh maybe the fastest thing in the air when it takes flight and Santa is busy delivering millions of gifts. (more…)Google+

Google has introduced the new Save to Drive extension for Google Chrome which enables you to save images off the web to your Google Drive. Once the extension is installed, you can click on the Google Drive extension to save an image of the entire page or the page visible in your screen, the HTML source code and a Web archive (.mht). Right clicking on images or links allow for them to be saved directly to your Google Drive. (more…)Google+

Google seems to be facing some serious downtime issues as users from around the world are unable to access Gmail. The email service is currently down for most users. Users trying to go to Gmail on their browser are seeing this 502 error. In what could be a related issue, some users (including yours truly) are witnessing Google’s Chrome browser crashing repeatedly. We are not sure what’s happening but we expect to hear from Google soon, hoping to get some idea of what happened and the extent of dow...

Back in September of 2008 web browsing was basically restricted to Internet Explorer (IE), Mozilla Firefox, a legion of IE based offshoots and Safari, in particular on the Mac. Things were not bad, but boy things became so much better after Google introduced Chrome on that fateful September 3 in 2008. But over the last four years, Chrome has become much more than a web browser, it is not only the sole entity that binds an user’s Google life together on any device, but Google’s vision is taking to places w...

Google, today announced that its popular web browser, Chrome, will be available on the Apple App store later in the day for both the iPhone/iPod Touch and the iPad. Features wise, Chrome for iOS is not too dissimilar from its Android cousin as it has the ability to sync tabs and bookmarks across a variety of devices including Windows PCs, Macs, ChromeBooks, Android smartphones and tablets and iOS devices. (more…)Google+

After dominating the web browser space for the past eighteen years, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been dethroned as the world’s most popular web browser courtesy Google Chrome. A report by analytics firm Statcounter, states that last week the momentous occasion happened as Chrome edged past Internet Explorer’s 31.94 percent share at 32.76 percent. This report, of course, was for the week of May 14, 2012. (more…)Google+

Ever since Microsoft announced a version of Windows 8 on ARM architecture (Windows RT), there has been a lot of confusion over the two separate desktop and metro environments. Weirdly, the two environments even have two different versions of Internet Explorer. What’s worse, on Windows RT for ARM chips, Microsoft will not allow third parties to develop applications for the desktop mode. And here is where Mozilla and Google have come out against Microsoft for not allowing desktop versions of their popular...

Ever since it was launched Google Chrome has been chipping away on the dominant marketshare of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which comes pre-loaded with Windows. Chrome’s quest of becoming the world’s most used browser was realized on March 18 2012, albeit for only a day. StatsCounter has issued a graph which extrapolates Chrome’s jump to being the number one browser on the planet for March 18, however then it also noted that Internet Explorer quickly regained reigns of its number one position the nex...