Late last week, Google made the announcement that Native Client has arrived to that stable version of Chrome, now at version 14. This essentially means that lower-level languages such as C++ can now be used for apps in the Chrome Web Store. At some point in the near future, with a technology called Portable Native…

It’s always a bad sign for a platform when developers start jumping ship. Seems like that might be just what’s happening with Firefox. See, for years, there was this extension known as Firebug. If you’re a web developer or programmer, you’ve probably at least heard of the plugin.  Apparently, it’s one of the best out…

  Google just released a rather excellent video on its Chrome channel, detailing how a  middle school located in South LA is using their Chromebooks. The school, known as the KIPP academy of opportunity, is a tuition free charter school centered around something which should honestly be a given(but often isn’t): helping students achieve the…

With just a week to go before the launch of Google’s new Chrome OS cloud based operating system and the first Chrome OS powered Chromebook devices from Samsung and Acer being available, Google has released version 12 of the Chrome browser. The Chrome 12 browser will be embedded into the first publicly released version of…

Australian gadget maker Kogan is launching the world’s first Chromium OS laptop called the Agora. Chromium OS is an open source project that is a separate effort from Google’s Chrome OS. You can read more details over at the Chromium projects site if you’re interested in learning more. Here are the specs of the Agora….

If you’re using an older browser on August 1st, 2011 you might just be out of luck if you use Google Apps. Google has announced today that because of new HTML5 features that are coming down the pipe that browser versions that are two releases behind will not be supported in their web-based productivity suite….