OK, these are more like “pretty good,” not wicked, mods, but they are easy to install and take virtually minutes to assemble. I have never been in favor of chrome for anything, but somehow, these replacement cases for the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3/PS3 Slim are tasteful. More »

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Many observers like to philosophize deeply about issues that generally can be answered with the simplest explanation. I rarely agree with Steve Ballmer, but his succinct (and I would have thought, salient) explanation for Google’s whirlwind rise to power is because of its efficient search engine: “The number one thing that Google benefits from in search is that they did it right, first.” More »

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The latest Hexxeh Flow build of Google’s open source ChromiumOS has nVidia Ion graphics support. Google’s netbook, which is supposed to be out in the winter, will ship with its own version of Chrome OS. Let the speculation begin as to whether or not the machine will have advanced features like nVidia’s Tegra chipset. More »

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Even though Google and Apple has had a rocky relationship over the past few years, Google’s mobile engineering executive Vic Gundotra insists that “Apple is a very close and valuable partner.” Recently, there was gossip that Steve Jobs flatly proclaimed privately that he “hates” Google CEO Eric Schmidt, whose company supposedly refrained from allowing multi-touch on its Nexus One so as not to anger Apple. Last week, an OTA update enabled Google’s smartphone to perform multi-touch in Google Maps, Browser, and Gallery. More »

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HTC had reportedly been working with Google on a tablet for a little while until it was canned. Now, Chromium is showing conceptual renderings, including a video, of what a Google Chrome Tablet might look like. More »

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Mozilla has just released the latest version of its internet browser called Firefox. Mozilla has recently seen a decrease in Firefox users due to competition from Google’s recently released Google Chrome internet browser. More »

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From Htcyou: In response to a report claiming a 200% Android usage increase, HTCYou user David Chou was kind enough to contribute this blog post as a response:

Almost every large phone OEM has many Android platforms in the works, Motorola recently canned all their WinMobile and other designs and are moving everything over to Android. Similarly, Korean OEMs are heavily targeting Android and there will be plethora of Android phones soon in the market. Apple’s inherent advantage are the integration of their media content, applications, iTunes, etc. as well as having relatively “optimized” implementation of hardware and software integration - they control everything so that general performance will generally be superior than competing platforms. More »

The browser war is starting again and this time Chrome OS will be involved. Chrome OS was announced earlier this year to be released in 2010 and this made us realize that web browsers are a big part of our computer. They are our outlet to the Internet, and they help us organize our information in an orderly fashion. So, because choosing a good web browser that fits your personality and tastes is very important for a good Web experience, we’ve decided to put together the 3 best web browsers and write a little bit about each of them to give you an idea of what makes up each one. More »

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As we all know, Google recently joined Microsoft and Apple in making their own web browser. Well, with any newly created software comes the headache of trying to sell the browser to hardware manufacturers.. To make things easier, Google has cut a deal with with Sony to have their Google Chrome web browser pre-packaged into Sony PCs when it ships to the consumers.

Sony and Google are still not sure what models will ship with the Chrome browser but they did agree that they were going to go through with the deal while Google looks for other hardware manufacturers to run their browser. While partnering with Sony is not the biggest of deals, it is still a step forward in the right direction for Google. More »

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