Google's web-centric Chrome operating system debuted on July 7, 2009, with the first Intel-based Chromebooks shipping on June 15, 2011. Since then, the Chrome concept has only increased in popularity, with Samsung launching a versatile ARM-powered Chromebook which quickly became a best-selling product on Amazon at a $250 price point. Additional Chrome devices include the Series 5 550 Chromebook (Wi-Fi), the ...

Google has rolled out a stable updated for its flagship browser that supports GPU-accelerated video decoding for Chrome on Windows. As Google engineer Amy Fischman points out, dedicated graphics chips draw far less power than a computer's CPU. As such, using GPU-accelerated video decoding while watching videos can increase battery life significantly. "In our tests, the battery lasted 25% longer when GPU-acc ...

There comes a point in everyone's life when your wild and crazy friends start settling down and work on creating a family. That's all well and good. But the problem is that these friends, like all of us these days, have grown up putting their lives on Facebook. As a result, whenever someone has a new baby, they can't help but post hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the infant. And when this starts happeni ...

Google's Chrome browser is now available for the first time for the iPad and iPhone, free from Apple's App Store. Marking the latest stage in the increasingly direct competition between the two companies, the browser is already - after just a few hours - the store's top selling app. The app runs on iOS 4.3 or later. Its big selling point is the synchronisation of tabs, browsing history and passwords. The co ...

Google's offering $1 million in bounty payments to hackers managing to come up with a fully-functional exploit of Chrome. The company may not be expecting to pay out. Over the last six years, Pwn2Own contestants at the CanSecWest conference have cracked both Internet Explorer and Safari, while Chrome has remained intact. This year, however, Google's going it alone with its hacking prize, having decided to p ...

Still using Internet Explorer? Ooh, you thickie. According to Canadian psychometric consulting company AptiQuant, IE users have lower IQs. The company offered free online IQ tests to over 100,000 people and then plotted their average IQ scores against the browser on which the test was taken. And it found that Internet Explorer users scored lower than average; Chrome, Firefox  and Safari users were a tiny bi ...

If the latest rumor is to be believed, Sony and Google are working on bringing the Chrome Web browser to the PS3. The PS3 already has its own built-in Web browser, allowing users to have nearly unfiltered access to the Internet. However, it's a proprietary Sony browser that is kind of clunky and doesn't work all that well. Chrome, meanwhile, has proven itself to become a rather flexible browser, with variat ...

Usually software companies have the luxury of picking their own deadlines, and typically -- especially in the case of open source or free programs -- those deadlines are allowed to slip or even lapse. But the European Commission gave Opera a solid opportunity to get back in the game, to be discussed once again in the same company as Mozilla  Firefox, Google   Chrome, and Apple  Safari. Version 10.2 wasn't g ...