Google released Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux but only in rough developer preview versions that the company warns are works in progress. Google also warned that in order to get more feedback from developers, they have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM.
Read MoreGoogle plans to advertise on Television with spots promoting its Chrome browser. Google Japan had already released a 30-second video promoting Chrome on YouTube, but the company will distribute that video through the Google TV Ads network this weekend as an experiment to see if it can drum up interest in Chrome, its new browser.
Google excited Android developers with an early version of its software developer kit for Android 1.5, the upcoming version of its mobile operating system. Included with it is a list of new features coming out, many of them suspiciously familiar to those Apple's iPhone already has. But here's one, that the iPhone doesn't have: Live Folders.
According to Google Code blog, mobile team started thinking about how they could bring the benefits of the server-side approach to the clients. They started thinking about a world where they could deliver a GUI specified in XML to a Java ME client, enabling them to iterate on the server side and deliver new features that could delight users when they were ready, rather than on a lengthy release cycle.
Playground is an educational application designed to show interactive code samples for some of Google's coolest Javascript APIs. The breakpoints and Firebug Lite additions are some of the new features included in the version 2.
The wide-ranging interview touches upon everything from Google’s origins and how it fell upon its advertising business model by accident to how search and other technologies will change society over the next twenty years.
Read MoreThe new operating system - Android 1.1 has a couple features that purchasers of version 1 were disappointed not to have included. New features include support for voice search, and the ability to download paid apps in the Marketplace. The previous version of the phone only let you download free apps, which most developers found quite annoying.
Read MoreGoogle and the Symbian Foundation clash in the OS wars. The foundation claims that Android is not open, but that it is merely a marketing label.
Developers have been asked to send videos of applications based on the company's technologies, which could be featured on the code.google.com site or Google developer blogs.
Google announced that it has begun beta testing its new Google Sync cloud-based synchronization services meant to link users' iPhone and Windows Mobile calendars and contacts with their Google accounts and automatically keep them in sync.