The floodgates are open! Any Android developer can now put their Android apps in the Chrome Web Store with the App Runtime for Chrome. But that positive news carries a darker undertone. Google’s ...

Chrome/Windows/Chrome OS: Google today rolled out a new category of Chrome Apps, a.k.a. Chrome Packaged Apps, that run on the desktop and feel more like native apps than ones tied to the browser.

Google has released an early stage "app launcher" for its Chrome browser, which offers a container for browser-based apps that are designed to work offline. The feature, currently available only on ...

Alongside the perpetual effort to speed up JavaScript, Google's newest browser gets MathML support, offline data storage with IndexedDB, and security fixes. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Google wants to make it a little easier to access content, even when you don’t have an internet connection. The company is launching a few tweaks and changes to its Downloads feature in the latest ...

Google delivered a nifty package on Thursday morning—packaged apps, that is. Only now, they’re simply called Chrome Apps, and are available for download in the Chrome Web Store. This new generation of ...

When Google first introduced Chrome OS that powers Chromebook laptops, if you were not able to get online it was pretty much a brick. That changed quickly as Google started making its apps usable ...