A little less than two years ago Google set out to make computers much better. They’re now announcing the first Chromebooks from partners, Samsung and Acer. You’ll be reading your email in seconds. Thanks to automatic updates the software on your Chromebook will get faster over time. Your apps, games, photos, music, movies and documents will be accessible wherever you are and you won't need to worry about losing your computer or forgetting to back up files.
The first Android smartphone came in 2008. Then in 2010, the platform appeared on tablets. Now, Android wants to move into your home.At its I/O developer conference, Google showed a sneak preview of its Android@Home project, which will extend the Android platform into household objects.
At Google I/O in San Francisco, Google developers Amit Joshi and Alex Russell took the stage at a breakout session to announce an important milestone: a version of Chrome Frame that doesn’t require admin rights to install. It’s big news for millions of users stuck working at offices or schools with older machines where admins won’t allow them to upgrade to newer, modern browsers. Now there’s a way around that with the new dev build of Chrome Frame. You can install this within IE without needing admin access.
Read MoreGoogle launched Music Beta, a new service that lets you upload your personal music collection to the cloud for streaming to your computer and Android devices. With the new service, your music and playlists are automatically kept in sync, so if you create a new playlist on your phone, it’s instantly available on your computer or tablet.
Read MoreGoogle touted Android's growth to 100 million smartphones and tablets, kicked off a rollout of Android 3.1 and gave developers a preview of the next major Android update called "Ice Cream Sandwich." The news came along with announcements of a beta online music service on Android and movie rentals on the Xoom tablet via the Android Market, with phones to follow soon.
Read MoreGoogle released the latest version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. They introducing a fresh, clean look that personalizes Toolbar with the tools mostly used. The performance of the Toolbar have improved without slowing down the browser, making it one of the fastest add-ons you can use in Internet Explorer.
In the second part of highlighting the new Google Analytics, Google gives you a short but powerful insight with Plot Rows. The graph on top of most Google Analytics reports is designed to give you a quick overview of your site’s performance over time. From the graph it’s easy to spot trends and understand how your traffic has changed over time.
Reports are swirling around the Internet that Google is in the advanced stages of testing a music service that could one day rival Apple iTunes. The reports come amid ongoing online murmurings that Google is working away on a social networking platform behind closed doors.
Read MoreHackers will have to wait a while before making their own custom versions of Honeycomb. BussinessWeek is reporting that Google won’t release Honeycomb as open source for quite some time. Google isn’t sure Honeycomb will work on smartphones and it doesn’t want to risk hackers or manufacturers shoving it on them.
Read MoreGoogle introduces the first highlights of the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to a small number of Analytics users, but Google will be giving access to more users soon. The new dashboards is available in the new version of Google Analytics.