One of the big feature additions Google is trumpeting in Chrome 13 is Instant Pages. Thanks to the magic of speculative pre-rendering and Google's unmatched ability to know what you want to do next before you do, Chrome can now silently load the pages you're most likely to click on from an existing page.
Read MoreGoogle, which has found Gmail to be a target of hacking attempts from China, has modified Chrome so the browser always encrypts connections with the e-mail service. Google already changed Gmail to use encryption by default, a mode indicated by the "https" at the beginning of a browser address bar that means outsiders sniffing network traffic can't read your e-mail. People could still get to the unencrypted version by typing "http://gmail.com," but no more, for Chrome.
Read MoreGoogle held a press conference in San Francisco to demonstrate some new features in Google Search, both on the desktop and on mobile. The company says it's trying to knock down the barriers to knowledge - that is, barriers to Google search results - with innovations involving speech recognition, computer vision, translation and other advances.
Starting now, Google Maps for mobile and desktop can tell you when your ride is actually going to arrive with new live transit updates. Google partnered with transit agencies to integrate live transit data in four U.S. cities and two European cities: Boston, Portland, Ore., San Diego, San Francisco, Madrid and Turin.
Google has introduced a new tool to the social Reach More Customers with Live Chat - Free Whitepaper networking world using one of its strong suits: Gmail. In the next couple weeks, Google will debut a feature for Gmail called the "People Widget."
With all of the recent released APIs, Google's API directory is getting quite long. However, some of the older APIs have been superseded by bigger and better things and others may not be receiving the necessary attention.
Read MoreMozilla has launched the latest version of the popular web browser Firefox for Android and brings some nice enhancements along the way. Now with the option to opt-out of mobile tracking, and performance enhancements, Firefox just got a whole lot better.
Read MoreSince Google's official unveiling of the Chrome Web Store six months ago, the company has been on a mission to redefine our perception of what constitutes an operating system, a browser and a program, blurring the lines between each. In Google's world, an OS is a browser and a program - one of those hefty pieces of compiled code we used to download or install from a CD - is now a Web app.
Read MoreThe Chrome OS Beta channel has been updated to R12 release 0.12.433.38 including Chrome 12 Beta, new trackpad, new flash player and several stability and functional improvements over the previous release.
Last summer, Google showcased the capabilities of HTML5 and the Chrome browser with an interactive short film "The Wilderness Downtown." Based on the Arcade Fire Song "We Used to Wait," the project was at once deeply nostalgic and technologically forward-looking. On stage at Google IO last week, the Creative Lab Team revealed their next music project, again directed by Chris Milk.