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Acer C720 Review: The Chromebook The Mass Market Is Waiting For

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I’ve already taken a longer look at Google’s Chrome OS this weekend on Forbes (you can read my thoughts here). Now it’s time to look at the hardware that runs the online OS. Acer released the C720,...

Google Chrome Add-On Transforms Your Browser Into A Bitcoin Wallet

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As more than 1,200 Bitcoin community members converged on Miami Beach for the first North American Bitcoin conference this past weekend, Andrew Toth, a software engineer from Toronto, Canada, decided...

How Google Chrome is Eavesdropping On Your PC Microphone

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What if the laptop on your desk is listening to everything that is being said during your telephone calls and conversation or from others near your computer? Then imagine that the audio from the...

Google Chrome’s Little Fix Is A Big Deal

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Yes! Finally! After years of my huffing and puffing about the inability for browsers to deal with the issue of “phantom audio” (that is: “Which of my dozen browser tabs that sound coming from?”),...

Chrome Adds Welcome Relief To Noisy Tabs And Windows 8 Metro Interface

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The newest stable version of Chrome (version 32) now has a way of seeing tabs that are playing audio, whether it’s music or the sound track of a video. It’s a big help for those of us who hate...
    






Look Out, Apple – Google Just Bought Nest For $3.2 Billion

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In a deal surprising only for its enormous purchase price, Google has announced that it’s buying Nest Labs, the hot maker of tech-infused household devices such as thermostats and smoke alarms, for $...
    






Google And Intel, Welcome To The New American Conglomerate

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Announcements from Google and Intel in the first week of 2014 confirm a trend that was already pretty solid but overlooked in 2013. The American Conglomerate is back (transparency note – I own a few...
    






New software battle coming to smart TVs

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New battle comes to smart TVs as Firefox, LG, others promote competing software NEW YORK (AP) — More choice — and confusion — is coming to the next generation of TVs. At...