Browsers are becoming more and more central to how we use computers " a fact that Google is relying on for their upcoming line of Chrome OS netbooks. However, well past just hoping that the functionalities of browsers continues to expand, Google has released a full-fledged app platform and web store for Chrome. The official opening of the Chrome Web Store, announced at their San Diego conference on the seventh and published to the Google Blog the same day,

The struggle for freedom of information on the Internet has just reached a new level, as supporters of the infamous site Wikileaks launched a series of cyber attacks that they called "Operation Payback." Reports by Reuters , as well as just about every other news groups paying attention today, stated a slew of websites were "attacked" by a group that went under the name "anonymous." Anonymous is a group that has been communicating on forums,

Yesterday, Google hosted a San Diego based event focused on their Chrome OS and the Chrome notebook. While rumors have been flying about what exactly would be announced, especially since Google's media invitation on December 3rd included the line, "we plan to share some exciting news about Chrome." That news has now been released and is publicly available, with two key announcements: the official Chrome Web Store has been unleashed,

Google has just released a new version of its Chrome Browser beta build - this time with some nice new features that makes the Chrome experience even better.  If you're using this Beta build of the Google Chrome browser, your installation will be automatically updated to the new version. Those of us who are using the official, more stable version of Google Chrome will have to wait awhile before these new features are added.

Google Ventures, an independent entity from Google the search company,  is rumored to have invested with top iPhone game developer ngmoco .  Citing multiple reliable sources, TechCrunch reports that Google Ventures may have invested more than $100 million with the game developer. So what does this mean? Despite the fact that Google Ventures'  supposed investment may not be directly Google-related,

It looks like Google is really serious to get into the social gaming arena. It was previously reported that Google has started churning out investment to Zynga, one of the most popular developer of social games such as Farmville. Now, TechCrunch has learned that Google has agreed to buy  Slide.com, which is actually a popular online solution for slide shows which can be embedded on social networks such as MySpace and Facebook.

Remember Google Wave? I know you all do. It's one of Google's biggest and most ambitious project which was launched to the public back in 2009.  Let me refresh you're memory - Google Wave is an online, real-time collaboration tool. It was a promising product which many failed to appreciate, especially the non-tech savvy online users. Why? Because it's too complex for a real-time messaging tool. So, finally Google will stop supporting or developing Google Wave .

If you're a verified Google Places business owner,  and the Place Page for your business has received public reviews, you can now r espond to these reviews starting today. Google has enabled this feature to make Google Places more engaging for both you and Google Maps users who've chanced upon your business. Hence, Google Places is now a more useful and better way of knowing your customers and finding out more about them to improve your products or services.

If you're a Flickr user, you'd be glad to know that Yahoo has finally open up the new Flickr photo page to the public. The new photo page has been in preview mode for a few weeks now and it seems that the Flickr folks have finally decided that new photo page is now free of bugs and needed fixes so, it's time to roll it out to everybody. In case you've missed the announcement before, the new Flickr photo page has three new major features - bigger photo view,

Google is starting to allow multiple sign-in to some users as noticed by Alex Chitu of the Google Operating System blog .  To check whether this is already enabled on your Google account, visit your Google Accounts Page and check if the multiple sign-in option is already appearing under the Personal Settings tab. I don't see it yet on my account but some users reported that they have seen the option already. Google has also not officially announced this yet. Anyway,

Google has finally rolled a nifty Gmail feature, something which I assume all of us Gmail users have been waiting for so long - the ability to download Gmail attachments just by drag-and-drop method . It's a pretty simple feature and yet could be useful for many of us.

Google has just rolled the new search history feature for US Google users. Nothing big here, just a small enhancement but could be pretty useful as it will allow you to quickly get back to sites you've been to as well as see items you have starred from your Android phone, iPhone or desktop searches on Google.com. To view your search history, just tap the history link located at the bottom of Google.com. You must also have enabled search history in your Google account.