Chrome – News by Guanqun https://guanqun.wang/newsbyguanqun Thu, 26 May 2016 08:52:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 Google Chrome supplants Safari as third most popular Internet browser in U.S. https://guanqun.wang/newsbyguanqun/2010/06/30/google-chrome-supplants-safari-as-third-most-popular-internet-browser-in-u-s/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:35:28 +0000 http://guanqun.wang/newsbyguanqun/?p=221 Continue reading →]]> BEIJING, June 30 — Google Chrome has replaced Apple Safari for the first time as the third most used Internet browser in the United States, behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla’s Firefox, according to media reports Wednesday.

Chrome had 8.97 percent of the U.S. browser market in the week that ended June 27, topping Safari’s 8.88 percent, said analytics company StatCounter.

“This is quite a coup for Google as they have gone from zero to almost 10 percent of the U.S. market in under two years,” StatCounter chief executive Aodhan Cullen said in a release.

Figures also show that 52 percent of U.S. users surfing the Internet with IE. Free and open-source browser Firefox remained the second most popular with 28.48 percent of people using it.

StatCounter said its statistics was based on an analysis of 3.6 billion page views, 874 million of them in the U.S., captured from its network of counters embedded in the pages of three million websites.

Outside the U.S., Chrome remained in a solid third place with 9.4 percent of the browser market while Firefox had 31 percent, and IE 52.8 percent. nbg_logo

On Xinhua Web site: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-06/30/c_13376697.htm

]]> Google to unveil Chrome operating system in fall https://guanqun.wang/newsbyguanqun/2010/06/03/google-to-unveil-chrome-operating-system-in-fall/ Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:08:43 +0000 http://guanqun.wang/newsbyguanqun/?p=175 Continue reading →]]> Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, listens to a question during a news conference at the Computex 2010 computer fair in Taipei June 2, 2010. Google expects to release its Chrome computer operating system in the "late fall" of 2010, as it looks to compete with rival Microsoft's Windows, Pichai said on Wednesday. Computex, the world's second largest computer show, runs from June 1 to 5. ©Reuters

Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management, listens to a question during a news conference at the Computex 2010 computer fair in Taipei June 2, 2010. Google expects to release its Chrome computer operating system in the “late fall” of 2010, as it looks to compete with rival Microsoft’s Windows, Pichai said on Wednesday. Computex, the world’s second largest computer show, runs from June 1 to 5. ©Reuters

BEIJING, June 3 — Internet giant Google said it is planning to release its own operating system, Chrome OS, for free this fall, media reported Thursday.

The Chrome OS, seen as a rival to Microsoft’s Windows, will be designed initially to work on laptop PCs, said Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management at the Computex PC show in Taipei.

“We are working on bringing the device later this fall,” Pichai said at the biggest IT trade show in Asia.

“We expect it to reach millions of users on day one,” he added.

Google said the open source operating system is centered around by the Google Chrome browser, which is now used by more than 70 million people worldwide.

Previous reports said that Google began the process of removing the Windows system from its offices earlier this year because of security concerns. Some analysts say this move may be linked to the launch of the new system. nbg_logo

On Xinhua Web site: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-06/03/c_13330975.htm

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