Tagged: Chrome & News
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AVG moves into social media security with PrivacyChoice acquisition News
23.05.2013 Not content with just securing your computers and mobile devices, security software player AVG has branched into protecting users on social networks with the acquisition of... -
#io2013 – Google gets its game on – 900m Android activations and 48bn app installs News
15.05.2013 At its sixth annual I/O shindig, Google revealed that there are now 900m Android activations, up from 400m a year ago. The internet giant, in a very games-oriented keynote,... -
#io2013 – Google+ gets a revamp with new multi-column layout News
16.05.2013 Google’s social network Google+ has been given a bit of a facelift, moving away from the linear stream to a more progressive multi-column layout. Google senior vice-president... -
A tantalising glimpse at tomorrow – Google reveals Glass ‘how to’ (video) News
01.05.2013 A year ahead of the expected consumer launch of Google Glass, Google has published a ‘how to’ video demonstrating how to set up Google Glass and how users will interact with the... -
Google Now is available for the iPhone and iPad News
29.04.2013 Google has updated its iPad and iPhone app in the Apple App Store, bringing its Google Now context-driven engine to Apple’s mobile devices. -
Google unveils Blink: a new WebKit-based rendering engine for Chrome and Chrome OS News
04.04.2013 Google has revealed that it will no longer use WebKit as the rendering engine for Chrome and Chrome OS and will instead use a forked version called Blink.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Operating Systems, Open Source, Internet, Development, Design -
Google: ‘We’re focused on enabling the next 1bn computer users’ News
20.03.2013 The democratising effect of technology that is seeing billions of people around the world join the internet revolution as they switch on their first mobile phones and computers...Tags: Operating Systems, Android, Smartphones, Mac, Windows, Personal Computers, Acer, Samsung, Chrome, Google -
Review: Samsung Chromebook (video) News
20.03.2013 The first time I saw a Chromebook – that is a notebook that uses Google’s Chrome browser as its operating system – about two years ago I remember being completely stumped. No...Categories: Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Energy, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Google reveals Samsung and Acer Chromebooks to go on sale in Ireland today News
19.03.2013 Google has revealed that Samsung and Acer Chromebooks – the internet giant’s vision of computers for the cloud – will go on sale in Ireland later today. The Samsung Chromebook... -
The technology business week: UK fraud office wades into HP-Autonomy case, Dell clears Icahn to study its books News
19.03.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Google’s Chrome and Apps VP takes over reins of Android division News
13.03.2013 Changes are afoot at internet search giant Google – its senior vice-president of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai is taking over from Andy Rubin in leading the Android division,... -
Google to open its own retail stores this year? News
18.02.2013 Move over Apple stores, Google stores are on the way, and just in time for Christmas shopping. Maybe. -
Google unleashes Santa Tracker News
19.12.2012 Kids all around the world can keep an eye on Santa’s whereabouts beginning Christmas Eve with internet search giant Google’s new Santa Tracker website. -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 65-61 News
04.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs... -
It’s a space JAM! Google Chrome recreates Milky Way on your desktop News
15.11.2012 Want to know what 100,000 stars look like? Following the successful JAM with Chrome app for dispersed bands and budding musicians, Google’s Chrome team has introduced 100,000...Categories: Software & Web Development, Search Engines, Search, Operating Systems, Internet, Digital Media, Apps -
The week in gadgets: a universal keyboard, Apple’s fall from the top, and a battery-saving update News
12.11.2012 A look at gadget happenings, including a portable universal keyboard for tablets and smartphones, Chrome’s battery-saving browser update, and the iPhone’s fall from the top of...Tags: Accessories, Keyboard, Peripherals, Bluetooth, Gadgets, Galaxy S III, Android, Google, Chrome, Energy, Samsung, iPhone, Apple -
Google’s new JAM with Chrome app to enable bands born on the web (video) News
08.11.2012 The most successful rock bands in the world usually evolved from friends in schools or colleges, but Google’s new JAM with Chrome app will allow musicians to jam live online in...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Tech start-up of the week: SeenBefore.com News
23.09.2012 Our tech start-up of the week is SeenBefore.com, a new search engine that’s aiming to make it easier for people to find what they have viewed before on the internet. How? By... -
Get lost in This Exquisite Forest, a collaboration between Google and the Tate Modern (video) News
19.07.2012 Google’s Creative Lab and the Tate Modern in London have teamed up to bring us This Exquisite Forest, an online art experiment that lets users contribute to short animations... -
A four-year history of internet browser usage in two minutes (video) News
09.07.2012 StatCounter has created a video that illustrates the changing trends in internet browser use worldwide over the past four years.Tags: Firefox, Opera, StatCounter, Chrome, internet explorer, Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Internet, Browsers