Google has recently acquired two new start-ups, including Apture which will help the company with their Chrome web browser, and Katango, which will help them with their social network, Google Plus. Continue Reading »

Google has officially announced the launch of its Chrome Web Store in India.rnrn“Nine months ago, we launched the Chrome Web Store in the United States, an open marketplace that gives Chrome users an easy way to discover and try the best apps on the web. Since then, the store has gained a lot of momentum and is now home to an ever increasing selection of apps, extensions and themes. Today, we’re expanding and making the store available in 24 more countries, including India,” Google wrote on its blog. Continue Reading »

Google made Monday a little cooler today with their animated Google Doodle for Freddie Mercury’s birthday – what would have been his 65th birthday. Continue Reading »

AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting, a company that is in the business of making connections between seemingly unrelated things has released the results of a survey that is sure to find both supporters and protestors. The survey which the company has titled “IQ and Browser Usage” was conducted to find a relationship between a person’s browser or choice and IQ. The conclusion reached by the survey is that Internet Explorer users had the lowest IQ of the bunch, while Opera users top the charts. People using Firefox, Chrome or Safari finds themselves in the center of this IQ spectrum. Continue Reading »

Digital statisticians Comscore released a report yesterday marking out the dominance of the iOS platform across the developed world. This coincided with the launch of a new research service called Device Essentials, that measures non-PC traffic (mobiles, smartphones, tablets, MP3 players, etc.) Continue Reading »

Opera Software has made public the beta version of Opera 11.50, also known as Swordfish, for desktop users. Among several minor bug-fixes and performance tweaks, this next release of Opera includes enhancement to widely popular ‘Speed Dial’ feature and the ability to synchronize saved password using the Opera Link feature. Continue Reading »

3D Vision-equipped PCs now have the ability to view HD-quality stereoscopic 3D content straight from YouTube. Continue Reading »

Opera Software has pushed out another release today with the Opera 11.10, browser codenamed "Barracuda" for PCs and Macs. Continue Reading »

Mozilla has released a leaderboard of Firefox add-ons that are ranked by the toll they take on the browser's boot-up performance. So, it’s one of those rankings where you want to be at the bottom, rather than the top. Continue Reading »

A look at the market share and version history of web browsers from 1994 to 2011. Continue Reading »