Are These Screenshots of Google Chrome OS?
by Dan Hope
The internet is no stranger to photoshopped fakes, so it comes as no surprise that pictures of Google Chrome OS have been popping up frequently, only to be confirmed as fakes. Recently, the most plausible pictures yet of Chrome OS have appeared and the question is already out there: Are they real?
Google Chrome OS is supposed to be an ultra light operating system for netbooks and internet tablets because it’s designed to do one thing really well: access the internet. This may sound like too big of a limitation to some, but in today’s world of online computing and the ever-increasing size of the Cloud, most people don’t need any software that isn&rs…
Hey, You Got Chrome in My Internet Explorer: Chrome Frame Speeds Up IE
by Dan Hope
Despite getting rave reviews and being ranked as one of the fastest internet browsers out there, Google Chrome hasn’t seen overwhelming adoption among internet-goers. The biggest problem is that the vast majority of n00bs on the interwebs don’t know anything but Internet Explorer exists, but there are some significant problems for people who want to use Chrome too, like websites that aren’t compatible (not so much a problem anymore) or web portals and content management systems that only work in IE (still a monumental problem). Fortunately, Google has created a fix for the problem …
Google Releases New Programming Language "Go"
by Dan Hope
Google is notorious for doing things its own way, so it only seems appropriate that the company has just released an entirely new programming language developed by in-house programmers. Frankly, it’s a little surprising that it took them this long; most of the commonly used programming languages are decades old and don’t reflect the latest advances in computing. The new Google language, called Go, aims to remedy that.
Google created the new language in response to problems and restrictions they found in existing programming languages that made it difficult to make Google services run at peak efficiency. Instead of making …
Google Chrome OS to Launch Next Week
by Dan Hope
Google Chrome OS is supposed to be the operating system that truly ushers us into the era of cloud computing. It will basically just be an especially functional browser for netbooks and mobile devices intended to do everything over the internet. And it looks like we might finally get a look at it very soon.
Just a day after Google announced their very own programming language, a mole has told TechCrunch the Google Chrome OS will be available for …
Microsoft Shows Faster JavaScript and Better Graphics Coming in IE9
by Dan Hope
Despite being the default Web browser for most of the world, Internet Explorer has consistently lost market share to other browsers, like Firefox and Chrome, because it can’t perform as well. It’s slow and doesn’t render many sites correctly. In the past version, IE8, Microsoft improved on those problems, but still lags behind other browsers. Now Microsoft is showing off what they’ve accomplished in early builds of IE9, and it looks like they’re finally making a competitive browser.
Microsoft …