Chrome Browser Finally Launches Touch-Enabled Swipe Features for Developers
Google Chrome’s latest Canary Build has some great swipe features that looks really promising. Swiping left to right will move you back and forth in your browser history. There’s also a feature to “enable pinch scale” that lets you pinch to zoom.
The touch features are needed if Google’s Chrombook is to compete with Internet Explorer on Windows 8, which already has those features. We’ll let you know when the new update rolls out for everyone.
Currently, the new browser is made for developers only and “can sometimes break down completely.” If you want to test drive the new features, you can download the browser here. It gets updated every night.
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App downloads from Google Play passed downloads from Apple’s App Store for the first time. According to App Annie, Google’s app downloads were 10% higher than those from iTunes during Q2 2013.
The internet is getting faster at Starbucks now that Google is replacing AT&T at the nation’s largest coffee chain and home away from home workstation. Google is promising a 10x boost in speed with up to 100x boost in speed in Google Fiber cities like Austin. The transition will start in August and take about eighteen months to complete. Just look for the “Google Starbucks” SSID.
Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet is
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While Google+ makes up 24% of logins among social networks online leading logins over Twitter, Yahoo and LinkedIn, Google users are not very active on the site once they log in. In fact, according to a new report from social marketing company Gigya, only 2% of Google+ users are sharing content on the network.
Someday, will you have to worry about getting hacked by graffiti or posters?



