Sunday, February 5th, 2012 3:20 pm

Chrome 8: Browser adds PDF viewer

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): The latest stable version of Google’s Chrome web browser comes with an integrated PDF viewer that renders documents as HTML-based pages and fixes 13 vulnerabilities, including the browser's history, its video indexing and the display of scalable vector graphics (SVG) animations. Google released version 8 on Thursday and says that the PDF [...]

Chrome OS on Dell Mini 10v

Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell has modified the new Google Chrome OS to enable wireless access to the Internet. While the hardware manufacturer does not expect to have a product available until next year's holiday shopping season, it has ported an experimental version of Google's Chromium OS to the PC maker's Inspiron Mini 10v netbook. "Without [...]

Google Chrome OS goes public

Mountain View (ip-192.com): Google's Chrome OS could be public within 24 hours, with Google calling a special event at its headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google announced that Sundar Pichai, Google's VP of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Google Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS would share the Chrome OS details during the event. The [...]