Compared to Gmail, Chrome’s beta period seems like a blink of an eye. This morning Google’s Chrome browser obtained stable status on Windows, Mac and Linux, ending it’s beta run. Chrome has matured incredibly quickly, with Google pounding away at Firefox’s capability and share of the market. Speed has increased with each release, with rendering up 213%, and Javascript by 305%. Some other new features include more HTML5 capabilities, most notably geolocation, and synchronizing browser settings across computers. Google was hoping to include Adobe’s Flash Player built in to the stable version…

With the goal of complete and total domination in mind, internet Goliath Google has set its sights on nearly every form of interactive media imaginable. What started as a research project by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in ’96 later became the most widely used search engine in the world, and went on to expand into countless online markets. Let’s face it: Google does, well, everything. From e-mail to social networking, Google will stop at nothing to control each industry that they enter. Funded almost entirely by advertisers, the farther their reach, the more cash in the bank. Google, however, is…

When Google announces a new product, you have to get a little excited. Their newest, announced today, is the Chrome Web Store, which will make it easy for anyone to pay for and download applications over the internet or to mobile phones. According to Google Vice President Sundar Pichai, Google wants to make it easy to create and sell a premium web application, and the new Web Store is the delivery vehicle for those applications. The store will only be available through Google’s Chrome web browser, which may boost its numbers from 70 million users. The store will use the same basic model as Apple’s…

The web has been around for some time now, and the world is divided into two camps: people who get it, and people who don’t. If you open a browser, type ‘google.com’ in the address bar and then type ‘facebook.com’ into the Google search box, you don’t really ‘get’ the web. Google is hoping to rectify that, with a small, and fairly obvious change that no one has ever really thought too much about. Their Chrome browser no longer displays the ‘http://’ in front of the domain name in the address bar. The change has caused a stir in the web nerd community, with accusations of dumbing down the web, and questions…