Sep 02
Tags: browser, chrome browser, Google, internet, Open Source
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google plans to launch Tuesday its own Internet browser, opening up a new challenge in cyberspace to Microsoft and its dominant Internet Explorer.
The California-based Web search leader said the new browser, called Google Chrome, would “add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.”
“We realized … we needed to completely rethink the browser,” Google’s Sundar Pichai said in a blog post.
The application can be downloaded for free in more than 100 countries and its code will be open source so no rights will have to be paid by anyone using or adapting the software.
Full article at Yahoo News
and screenshots at blogoscoped.com
