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Posts Tagged ‘Google Chrome’

Chrome OS pre-beta available

By Bilal Sulehri • Nov 21st, 2009 • Category: Technology

The launching of much awaited Chrome OS is still some time away. But gdgt.com has compiled a download-able Chrome OS.

After Google announced the availability of the Chrome OS / Chromium OS source code, one of engineers (Jon Ursenbach) at gdgt.com, immediately got to work on compiling the code, trying to see if he could get [...]



Google Chrome, Firefox 3.5 and IE 8:

By Imran Haider • Jul 24th, 2009 • Category: Technology

I am not a web master, not even an ordinary web developer. But as an IT professional I really have deep interest in browser market. As of any writing these lines are not final words but just what I think about these products.
Chrome is relatively new in market as compared to the two others [...]



FlyChat

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jul 18th, 2009 • Category: Technology

I sat down thinking I was going to write about how FlyChat, a new iPhone app, is kind of creepy. Then I realized it’s actually a lot like Twitter in some regards. And that’s not to say that Twitter isn’t creepy in some ways. But it’s an accepted form of creepy. FlyChat, however, isn’t just [...]



Google Chrome OS Introduction

By Sharafat • Jul 11th, 2009 • Category: Technology

It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems [...]



Google Chrome: Redefining The Operating System

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jul 9th, 2009 • Category: Technology

It’s hard to type a blog post when one hand is being used to pat myself on the back.
Last year I wrote a post about the just launched Chrome browser titled Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer. From that article:
Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with [...]



Google Outage : Lessons Learned

By Sumaira Bajwa • May 17th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Well, the world panicked as the single point of failure in the Internet failed. Google failed for a while and people were unable to access the Gmail, Analytics, Docs and many other of the services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google (GOOG) Web traffic to Asia and [...]