Just a week after its open-source brother Chromium had its logo summarily flattened, Chrome has followed suit. For now it's only available in the Developer channel, but presumably it will quickly percolate down to the Beta and Stable channels. There are some more images of the new logo after the break.
Read MoreIf you need to do a Google search on your iPhone or iPod touch it's now faster and easier when you use the redesigned Google Search app, formerly Google Mobile App. If you've been using Google Mobile App for a while, you'll notice that things look different.
Standards groups are unwieldy and slow-moving. But when it comes to expanding what browsers can do, they turned out to be a faster way for Google to bring a handful of features to the Web than its Gears plug-in. So it comes as no surprise that Google is removing the software altogether from its Chrome browser.
Read MoreJust three weeks ago, Google kicked off the Year of the Rabbit with a speedy Chrome beta. They’re excited to bring these speed improvements and more to everyone using Chrome. With this stable release, even your most complex web apps will run more quickly and responsively in the browser. This boost corresponds to a 66% improvement in JavaScript performance on the V8 benchmark suite.
Read MoreInstant Previews provides a fast and interactive way to evaluate search results. Google Instant Previews is available on mobile for Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices across 38 languages. Similar to the desktop version of Instant Previews, you can visually compare search results from webpage snapshots, making it easier to choose the right result faster, especially when you have an idea of the content you’d like to see.
Read MoreOne of the things developers miss when making the jump from iOS to Android is the lack of in-app payment support on Google's mobile platform. On iOS, this has long been a cash cow for app developers, and naturally they're looking forward to Android receiving the functionality as soon as possible.
Read MoreGoogle Docs introduced its OCR feature last year, and its addition was a welcome one for anyone who uploads photographed or scanned documents like receipts, faxes, or other dead-tree materials. Now, Google has announced that OCR support is being expanded beyond the original five languages -- English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish -- to a whopping 34 in total.
Read MoreGoogle Cloud Connect, Google's plugin that integrates Google Docs and
Microsoft Office apps, launched last November for a limited number of
users. Now, Cloud Connect is ready for prime time, and the plug-in is
available to everyone.
Google has just announced the availability of the full SDK (software development kit) for Android 3.0, the tablet-optimized version known as "Honeycomb." The updated SDK Tools component is now available for download from here and the Android Development Tools (ADT) plugin is here.