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Google Will Gun for Gaming Software, Analyst Says
七 9th
Google's next significant Internet foray could be gaming, according to downstream traffic data collected by a HitWise Intelligence analyst who monitors Web traffic trends.
Many Internet observers quickly pointed out that in bidding to buy ITA Software for $700 million, the company was looking to mark new territory on the Web, entering a vertical where it lacked a strong presence.
That would be flight information software, a subsegment of the expansive online travel sector populated by the likes of Orbitz, Hotwise, Expedia, Priceline, Kayak and even Microsoft's own Bing Travel, the product some folks believe Google seeks to challenge with ITA's technology.
Hitwise's Heather Hopkins said July 7 she saw Google getting into the travel space with its search engine back in 2006.
This her blog post from March 21 of that year proves her call.
That was before Google owned YouTube, launched Google Apps for businesses and racked up $23 billion per year in online advertising and amassed a $25 billion war chest of cash.
Chrome 6 Gets UI Upgrades, Chrome 5 Gets Flash
六 30th
Google has upgraded both the stable version of Chrome as well as the Chromium developer release, which comes with subtle updates for the already streamlined Chrome user interface. While Google has confirmed that it has to improve the audio/video multimedia performance, there is no dedicated hardware acceleration feature yet. However, just like Mozilla and Microsoft, Google said that it is looking into utilizing the GPU in the future.
Chrome 5 has been updated to version 5.0.375.86 and if you have been running stable version of Chrome in the past, this is the version that is on your computer now. The big news is that the integrated Flash player is now enabled by default. The new version also fixes five security holes.
If you have played with developer versions, however, you may have noticed user interface changes in the most recent updates and especially Chromium 6.0.477.0. It is still labeled as a developer release and not a beta version, indicating that more changes are on the way. Some time ago, the Chrome (Chromium) developer team noted that it would soon become apparent why it is already working on version 6 and why the currently developed Chrome is not just a 5.x upgrade. It seems that Google feels that the GUI streamlining is significant enough to justify the step up to Chrome 6.
Flash arrives in Google’s Chrome browser
六 30th
Chrome 5.0.375.86, the stable version of Chrome released Thursday for Windows, Mac, and Linux, extends the plug-in to the mainstream version of Google's browser. Previously it was only in the developer and beta releases, and because of some hiccups it was disabled for a time there.
The new version also fixes five security bugs, including one involving a cross-site scripting vulnerability that had been fixed earlier but that recurred.
Flash has been a dominant component for building the richer aspects of the Web, notably games and streaming video, and programmers have relied on it to bridge compatibility and feature differences among browsers. But browser makers have long chafed at how Flash programs could crash the browser and confuse its user interface, and long-running work to reproduce many Flash abilities in Web standards is steadily maturing.
Google is among those pushing this work, which sometimes loosely is called HTML5 but which in fact also includes Cascading Style Sheets for formatting, and JavaScript for processing, and other elements of the Hypertext Markup Language for Web pages beyond the upcoming HTML5 version.
Google building online Chrome application shop
五 22nd
More news from Google’s I|O conference: Google loves Web apps (surprise!) but thinks that they’re too hard to find. There’s no equivalent to the experience of walking into a well-stocked software store back in 1990, or going to Download.com. So it’s launching the Chrome Web Store, a service that lets you find, download, install, and pay for Web-based services.
Conceptually, it’s similar to Apple’s App Store, Google’s own Android Marketplace, and all the other app storefronts that have popped up over the past couple of years. Here are some lousy photos I took of the on-screen demo here:
Acer to launch Google Chrome OS devices in June-Rumors
五 17th
Rumors say that Google acer will launch two Chrome OS devices next week at the Computex Taipei, Taiwan which is going to be held from June 1 to June 5. There is no clear information about the type of devices to be launched.
Google Chrome OS is a browser based OS which was really out of the talk in the technical forum for quite some time after its announcement by Google. Acer has announced last year that it will release a Google Chrome OS based device in the late 2010. So if both the news is true then we can expect the device next month.
Download Google Chrome 6 Dev Channel Release
五 17th
Google Chrome 6 is here. The latest dev channel build sports the version number 6.0.401.1. The new release does not, however, include any major new features.
Unlike other browsers, Chrome’s version number is not determined by the presence or absence of new features. In fact, 6.0.401.1 is just a regular bug fix update to the previous dev channel release, Google Chrome 5.0.396.0.
Google’s unusual numbering scheme has allowed Chrome to gallop ahead of Firefox, at least when it comes to version numbers.
The summarized changelog is given below.
- All
Don’t prepend scheme on copying an incomplete hostname. (Issue 43585) - Windows
Much better display/eliding of RTL and mixed-direction strings in the omnibox dropdown. (Issue 41716) - Linux
Make sure scheme is prepended to addresses that are cut (as opposed to copied) from the omnibox. (Issue 43569)
Fixed rendering of monospaced fonts on Linux (Issue 43252)
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