The browser’s role is ever increasing. It already has become far more than a mere tool for accessing information. Today we use it to communicate, to collaborate, and to interface with applications.

The software for fast browser apps has taken a step beyond mainstream x86-based PCs to Chromebooks using ARM processors. But it won't reach ARM-based smartphones until later this year. Stephen ...

The technology to let browser programs run as fast as native software has plenty of challenges. Maybe Google's promotional effort next week will give it a needed boost. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Google’s Native Client is a set of tools that developers can use to write web apps that can interact with your device as if they were native apps, using your CPU, GPU, and other hardware. Now Google ...

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Google today released a new Native Client debugger and a new Native Client add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. The former is included in the Native Client SDK that you can download for Windows, Mac, ...

Google’s Native Client software lets developers write web apps that act more like native desktop apps. For instance, Quake, DOOM, and DOSBox have all been ported to run in the Chrome web browser using ...

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Google on Friday began offering a revamped SDK for its Native Client open source technology for running Web applications that execute native code inside a browser. With the SDK, developers can start ...

What’s Google’s Native Client SDK? A way to develop web apps that use native code like C or C++. This, plus OpenGL-powered hardware graphics acceleration? Google’s world, where the browser is the OS, ...

Google has released new software designed to let Web developers write more powerful programs that can work directly with an operating system, rather than having to be run through a browser. Called ...