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Photos: Google takes the wrapping off Chrome OS

Netbook OS runs apps inside the browser The upper-left corner has an applications menu with links to a variety of web applications. Those applications can be permanently lodged as narrow tabs between that menu and ordinary browser tabs. Although ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Silicon.com,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Oracle,  Marten Mickos,  Microsoft Corporation

Mozilla not interested in building a Firefox OS

Google wants to catalyze the era of Web applications with its Chrome OS project, but Mozilla has no plans for its own browser-based operating system at least for now. "We're really focused on making the Web the right platform of whatever operating ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Webware,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Internal Revenue Service

Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue: $79 million

The Mozilla Foundation's revenue grew 5 percent to $79 million in 2008, with its Firefox search-ad deal with Google still the biggest benefactor, the organization said Thursday. Google supplies "the bulk" of the Mozilla Foundation's revenue through a ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Webware,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Yahoo!,  Microsoft Corporation,  eBay Inc.,  Twitter Inc

With IE 9, Microsoft fights back in browser wars

IE remains the Net's dominant browser. But perversely, it became something of a technology underdog after Microsoft vanquished Netscape in the browser wars of the 1990s and scaled back its browser effort. That left an opportunity for rivals to blossom-- ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Webware,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  Pixar,  John Montgomery

New Firefox 3.6 beta aims to cut crashes

Earlier in November, Firefox surpassed 25 percent usage share of Web browsers, according to Net Applications. Mozilla released a third beta of Firefox 3.6 on Wednesday, adding stability and performance features, and said it hopes to lock down the code ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Webware,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Yahoo!,  Twitter Inc,  U.S. Senate,  Nintendo

Salesforce to offer social networking for companies

Salesforce Chatter gives a social networking angle to the company's Web-based business services. Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house operations, giving a corporate ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Webware,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Salesforce.com Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Marc Benioff,  Yahoo!

Google set to promote Chrome extensions

The developer preview version of Chrome now promotes an as-yet unworking link to an extensions gallery. Google is on the verge of launching a Web site to showcase its extensions to customize what its browser can do. The company's latest developer ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Webware,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Yahoo!,  U.S. Senate,  Nintendo,  IBM

Adobe releases new Flash, AIR betas

Notable Flash Player 10.1 is support for not just Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux computers, but also a variety of smartphones, though that support isn't yet built in. What is available is hardware-based decoding of the popular H.264 video format, which ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Webware,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Yahoo!,  Twitter Inc

Google hopes Go will give a browser boost

Google, ever eager to renovate the computing industry for the benefit of the Web and its own business, is working to link two nascent but potentially significant projects, its experimental Go programming language and its Chrome Web ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Webware,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Intel,  Ken Thompson,  Yahoo!,  Twitter Inc

Google plans Chrome Mac beta for December

Google plans to release a Mac beta of Chrome in early December, judging by some chatter on a mailing list for the browser. Chrome 4.0 is available today as a beta version for Windows but only as a rougher developer-preview version on Linux and Mac OS X. ...

From STEPHEN SHANKLAND, Webware,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Twitter Inc

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