Canonical is working with Google on Chrome OS
Canonical has revealed that they have been working with Google on their recently showcased Chrome OS.
Canonical is contributing engineering to Google’s project under a contract signed between the two companies.
Canonical is of course the company behind the hugely popular Ubuntu Linux distribution.
Ubuntu and Chrome [...]

Google Gmail now support attachment sending in offline mode
Google Gmail has supported offline model for a long time now.
Users of Offline Gmail had one major demand… The ability to send attachments.
Google has now added this functionality.
Gmail would now be able to save new emails in the Outbox with attachments while it waits for [...]

Google Reader can now display favicon of subscribed sites
Google Reader team has announced that they are adding a new optional feature that would display favicons of the subscribed sites.
Google Reader developers said that this was one of the most demanded features from the users of the service.
They have made it an optional [...]

Google Chrome 4.0.249.12 released on Mac Dev Channel
Google Chrome developers have released a new build for the users on Mac dev channel.
The latest version is Google Chrome 4.0.249.12.
Changelog:
Mac
[r32659] Improved plugin focus handling (Issue: 26585).
[r32663] Improved plugin stability (Issues: 28190, 24173).
Checkout: Dev Channel Update

Google Chrome Frame 4.0.255.0 released

Google Chrome developers have released a new version of their Google Chrome Frame add-on for Internet Explorer.
This is a bug fix edition.
Changelog:
Empty user directories are properly deleted when Google Chrome Frame is un-installed. (Issue: 27483)
Crash fixes (Issues: 27414, 27695, 27662)
Ensure that the renderer has focus when ChromeFrame navigates [...]

Google Map Buddy: Access Google Maps offline!
Google Map Buddy is a free application that does one thing easily.
It enables you to save imagery from Google Maps offline that can come handy at times when there is no internet connectivity available.

You can download them for viewing or printing. The software does all the [...]

Google Maps Navigation launched for Android 1.6
Google has announced the launch of Google Maps Navigation for Android 1.6 platform.
Google Maps Navigation is already available for Android 2.0.
It was launched along with the Motorola Droid smartphone which became the first in the market to be powered by Android 2.0 edition.
Google spoke about [...]

Twitter: Selling is not an option. IPO is.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said it again. They have no plans to sell the company to any of the web biggies like Google or Microsoft.
The company is here to stay and might opt for an IPO in the coming years.
Stone did say that they are closing [...]

Google Chrome 4.0.249.11 released on Dev Channel
Google Chrome developers have released a new dev build for the users on Windows and Linux.
The latest version on these platforms is Google Chrome 4.0.249.11.
This build fixes some minor bugs introduced in the recent editions.
Changelog:
Windows
Make the char encoding indicator visible again on Windows (Issue: 26438).
Extensions
Extension [...]

Google starts accepting Chrome extensions from developers
Google has finally started accepting extensions for their Chrome web browser from third party developers.
Developers can now submit their extensions to Google. Chrome users do not currently have access to them.
Google would not review all the extensions submitted to them. But they would review the ones which [...]