Google has launched a public beta of the Google Chrome web browser for Android. It’s available from the Android Market for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 and up. The new browser uses the same rendering engine as the desktop version of Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux — and it has the same user interface, so it should be…

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Google Books has launched a new feature that lets you download and save books using the Chrome web browser, allowing you to read eBooks even when you don’t have an internet connection. That makes Google Books a heck of a lot useful if you’re one of the handful of people that has a Chromebook, or if you just like reading…

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Google’s Chrome web browser and Chrome OS operating system store bookmarks in a couple of places. There’s a bookmark bar that you can view near the top of your browser, links for frequently visited sites on the new tab page, and you can load an old fashioned bookmark manager. The new tab page also shows icons for any web apps…

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The Chrome Web Store is a pretty good place to find web apps and extensions for the Google Chrome web browser. But sometimes you just don’t think to go to the store to look for an app and instead use a browse the old fashioned way: by entering URLs or search terms in the location bar. But developer Mihai Parparita…

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One of the slicker features in Google’s Chrome OS is referred to as Panels. They’re the pop-in panes you see in some Chrome OS screenshots for things like the file browser, download shelf, and Google Talk. Those native features are pretty slick in panel form, but wouldn’t it be cool if you put your favorite web apps in a panel, too?…

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The first time Google handed out free Chromebooks, the computers hadn’t even been given a retail-friendly name yet. The Cr-48 was shipped off to select members of the technology press corps and later to enthusiasts who registered via the Web to join the Pilot Program. Google’s goal: to get the Cr-48 deployed to a group of test users outside Mountain…

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Google has just pushed an updated version of Chrome OS beta. Chrome OS R12 Beta is essentially the version of the operating system that’s likely to ship on the first Chromebooks from Acer and Samsung next month, but as the beta label implies, Google is still looking to squash a couple of bugs. There are still some known issues in…

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It’s been nearly 18 months since Dell released a Chromium OS build for the Dell Inspiron Mini 10v netbook — allowing users to test out a pre-release build of Chrome OS long before it would be ready for the public. Now the computer maker has released a brand new build with updated wireless drivers which support the latest versions of…

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Google has announced that the Google Chrome web browser now has 160 million users, and the company is pushing new features such as speech input and updates to the Chrome Web Store — including support for in-app payments. Developers can now add the ability to use Google’s payment system to a web app simply by adding a single line of…

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Hot on the heels of a bug report which revealed details about Acer’s upcoming Chrome OS notebook, the folks at ChromeNieuws.nl have spotted a bug report with information about a new Samsung notebook designed to run Chrome OS. Here’s what it reveals: The computer appears to be called the Samsung Alex. It’s powered by a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom N550…

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Google has been working on Chrome OS since 2009, but the browser-based operating system is still in beta. Now it looks like a full release could be coming soon. Testers have started to notice that in addition to Beta and Dev channels, there’s now a new Stable channel. The company uses the same three channels for the Chrome web browser,…

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Google has announced that the latest beta version of its Chrome web browser adds support for the HTML5 speech input API. That means developers can write web apps that will convert speech to text, allowing you to interact with a web page by speaking into your computer’s microphone. The technology could let you search a web page, translate from English…

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