The chart above represents the approximate market share of different web browsers worldwide as determined by Statcounter, the web analytics service. Google Chrome continues to grow at an impressive rate and in some regions, the UK for example, Google’s browser has overtaken Firefox to take the second spot. The reason why I shared that chart [...]

Google on Tuesday unveiled its official Google Translate for iPhone app, which allows users to speak into their phones and receive a translation. This "speak to translate" feature accepts voice input for 15 languages, and can translate those voice inputs into more than 50 languages. To access, press the microphone icon next to the text [...]

Google Chrome brought with a completely new model for how a browser could work. Tabs that could be torn out of one window onto another, crashes that were no longer fatal, but limited only to a single tab or plug-in. Google Chrome gave each tab and plug-in its own process to work in making sure [...]

Google has added one of its most used Gmail features – Priority Inbox – to its mobile web application. Until now, users could only access the intelligent mail filtering feature on their desktops/laptops or on their Android phones. Now, if a phone has a browser that supports HTML5, Priority Inbox can be accessed when you [...]

Google has announced a handy new feature for Gmail: HTML5-based desktop notifications for new mail and chats. At the moment it only works on Chrome, but the company says it’s working to make notifications standard on all browsers.  To turn the feature on, click on Settings in the upper right corner of Gmail, scroll down [...]

Google has announced that it is rolling out a refresh to the Google Docs documents list. The goal is to make it easier to find, explore, and share all your files that are stored on the Web, even if they are of varying file types. This might be as close to the GDrive rumors as [...]

Google has reportedly begun rolling out a new feature which allows those on an iPhone or iPod Touch to preview a website before it's loaded when using their search site. A companion of the desktop version which was rolled out late last year, 'Instant Previews' for iOS devices utilizes a Safari tab-like page built completely using [...]

In response to the Internet blackout in Egypt, a small group of engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow have developed a "speak-to-tweet" service that lets anyone send messages over Twitter without an Internet connection. Users can tweet by leaving a voice message at one of three international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855). Tweets [...]