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The media was invited to a debut of the Chrome OS yesterday, but it was clear that the OS will not really be ready for quite some time. Rather than speculating about the inadequacies of the ‘new’ operating system, people and the press can now be wondering aloud why Google chose to announce when the [...]

Sometimes I read things and wonder exactly what has happened to the people who wrote them, or those being written about. It’s as though one truly has entered the Twilight Zone.
That has happened this morning when I read a small blurb on slashdot explaining that agent provocateur and sometimes idiot savant Mark Cuban has put [...]

By offering to implement another application layer protocol Google is promising up to 100% improvement in internet page loads. This is totally independent of the current Chrome browser, in case you’re wondering.
That’s what is being claimed in a blog post by someone on the Google campus.
A story in ComputerWorld gives the changes that would be [...]

I often wonder why things like this are pursued. It appears to come from the thought process that things provided will find a reason for their existence.
YouTube is something that can provide hours of fun, but it occurs to me that only the desperate would use it as a way to view high quality content. [...]

When I first saw Bing, I was less than impressed. At the time before the Yahoo agreements, I had done a few searches, trying to find for myself which of the three (I almost said big three, but the only reason Bing could be considered big is because of the dollars Microsoft has poured into [...]

There are lots of places on the internet where a small amount of space can be had, say 1 or 2 gigabytes, completely free, but to obtain any more than that, you find you have to pay dearly. Google has decided to show us that we not only should be thankful for their size, but [...]

This morning, as I was watching The Early Show, on CBS, I was astounded to hear, during one of the local news breaks, that a nearby municipality, Riverside, California, a city of approximately 300,000, is putting videos of crimes, committed under the watchful eye of security cameras, on YouTube, and asking people who might know [...]

This time no promise of monetary reward, but something almost as good for many. The newest campaign to get you to use the search upstart is a natural tie-in.
In a campaign to get you to use their decision engine, you can pick up some wi-fi usage after searching with Bing.
Maximum PC explains the rest of [...]

Microsoft owns the web. If you look at the time that Microsoft applications spend connected to it, the previous statement is proven without question. Who would think that a lowly IM application would be considered king of all in usage?
The take from Download Squad -
To some of you, this might be a shock. To the rest [...]

The version 3 of Google’s Chrome browser is now considered stable, and does have some fixes for some things that were causing some to wonder why things were not functioning well. ( But the new and fun stuff is found in the version 4 builds.)
The stable version of Google’s Chrome browser has just received an [...]

It seems as though Microsoft is getting the bump by some manufacturers here in the U.S,, as Sony, for one, is shipping its VAIO notebooks with Chrome as the default browser.
Everyone who reads certainly must know by now that Internet Exploder is the slowest  of the most used browsers, and it has only been in [...]

New results indicate that Google Chrome gets faster, always nice, but is also starting to gain features. One of those features is currently an Opera exclusive, which will synchronize bookmarks across all of the user’s machines.
The sync feature is done using the same protocol as Google Talk, which may or may not be better than [...]

Did you watch the concert last Sunday night on YouTube? I watched most of it, and I was happily surprised at the actual quality of the feed.
Unlike the Microsoft Live Earth proceedings, there was no cutting in and out, nor was the overall video quality as grainy (going full screen on my 1680 x 1050 [...]

With the latest builds of Opera, another ability is released to the public, that no other browser allows (this is getting to be a habit, for those not paying attention).
For the Opera user, there  have been many little applets, which Opera calls Widgets. The Widgets are much like the applets originally released in the product [...]

Amazon speaks glowingly about the Kindle, Sony has decided to put its hat in the ring, and put another reader out for public consumption. It seemed that a few others were going to come out with their version of the paperless book, all with one fatal flaw – the reader was locked – DRM.
Now Google [...]