We recently got this email from apture informing about this latest acquistion by Google.. Here’s a copy of the email below: Hi there, We’re writing to let you know that Apture has been acquired by Google. Since day one, we’ve been working on getting the Apture experience into as much of the web as possible. [...]

Acer Chromebook With Wi-Fi Only, On Sale For $349
Amazon today announced that it will be selling a Chrome Netbook with only Wi-Fi communication model AC700-1099′s for $349. The weight is about 3.2 pounds with built 1.66GHz Intel Atom N570 processor, Intel GMA 3150 graphics, 16GB of SSD storage, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, 11.6 – 1366×768 resolution screen, 1.3 megapixel camera, multi-touch panels and [...]
$10000 Prize Payout For Google Chrome 12 Bugs
Google launched the Chrome 12 stable version of the browser. It is reported that throughout the development process, in order to find loopholes in Chrome 12, Google encourages finding bugs and a 12 researcher’s team had been paid a prize of $ 10,000. Among those rewarded, Google Chrome security team member Jerome – Forsythe (Jerome [...]
Stable Google Chrome for Mac and Linux
Google announced that, Google Chrome has come out of beta versions for Mac and Linux to pass between the programs included in Google stable, which was already Chrome for Windows. Soon the system will notify you of the update, but if we try we can expect from the download link . What’s more, with this [...]
Google Chrome 5 now with Geo-targeting capabilities
In the latest chrome update beta release, Google added HTML5, Geolocation API support. Currently, Chrome dev 5.0.342.1 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux.. However, Chrome’s geographical feature is turned off by default. Users need to add the Chrome shortcut icon “- enable-geolocation” command to activate the feature. If you want to test Chrome [...]
Get Paid to Report Security Bugs in Chrome
Google has announced on its chrome developer blog, that it would be paying developers to report bugs in google chrome and firefox. This is a new way of fixing and rewarding authorsdevelopers at the same time. Any bug filed through the Chromium bug tracker (under the template “Security Bug”) will qualify for consideration. As this [...]
How to: Easily Check Page rank from Google Chrome
There is now an extension for Google chrome to check the page rank of a website easily. I’ve been using this extension for quite some time now and it’s really helpful to find out more about anysite site. Note: You need to be using the beta version of Chrome (4.0+) in order to install extensions. [...]
Google Chrome Extentions gallery
Google announced today the launch of the beta portal for Google Chrome extensions. Developers have already submitted some addons in recent weeks. The first extensions are only available for Windows and Linux, but Mac is coming soon. The gallery is currently taking over 300 extensions, some of Google itself, What Google forgot to mention in [...]
Google publishes source code of Google Chrome OS
Google has open source the source code of the Google Chrome OS published, (src.chromium.org). Google announced the availability of source code during a press conference at its headquarters in Mountain View. The OS developer community can now, participate actively in developing the Chrome OS. One year from now the Google Chrome OS is expected to [...]
Use Greasemonkey scripts in Google Chrome beta
With the release of Google Chrome 4.0.237.0 it includes support for scripts using Greasemonkey and it has been firmly integrated into the browser. Now to install scripts you don’t need a command line in Chrome. The User.js files automatically can be added as an extension. For example: If you call one of the userscripts from [...]
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