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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.

With the demise of Sun Microsystems — the late, lamented high-tech pioneer responsible for groundbreaking technologies like Java and Network File System — it’s looking more like Google has assumed the ...

Google has released a new experimental browser plugin that allows web applications to securely run native code on the underlying platform. The plugin, which is called Native Client, is distributed ...

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, or NaCl is a platform that lets the Chrome web browser run certain apps written C or C++ instead of the usual web languages such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. In other words, ...

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 ...

At its Chromebook Pixel event yesterday, Google didn’t just launch its new premium Chromebook. It also announced that it is porting Quickoffice, the mobile productivity app that brings Microsoft ...

Google today launched Portable Native Client (PNaCl, pronounced pinnacle) as part of its push to bring native code to more and more platforms. The tool lets developers compile their code once to run ...

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 ...

Google has this week rolled out their new Google Chrome 14 browser to the stable channel, which brings a number of new features including a new Native Client, Web Audio API enabling rich audio ...

The "write once, run anywhere" promise of Java from the 90s is back in a new guise, as Google today announced Portable Native Client (PNaCl) with the promise to allow developers to "compile their code ...