Web Browser Usage (Trend Analysis)

Google Adding Push Notification Support in Chrome
Tom's Guide / 5/12/13
This new Chrome push notification system is a step forward in helping browser-based Web apps catch up with native software that already sends notifications directly to the user. As an example, this new system could allow a calendar app to push updates to ...

Chrome browser-Google pushing for Web applications to act natively
spyghana.com / 5/11/13
Google has implemented some changes in its chrome browser implementation recently where it added an option in the browser by which users can allow web applications to stay active even after the browser is closed. This would give a native support to the ...

Google Introduces Push Notifications For Chrome Developers
Sporkings / 5/11/13
Google has introduced push alert support for apps in Google Chrome browser or Chrome OS. The protocol called Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome is designed to let apps receive notifications from outside Chrome and respond to them more efficiently.

Google adds push notifications to Chrome browser, Chrome OS
Tech2 / 5/10/13
Google is expanding its Chrome web browser and operating system by adding Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome. The main feature of the new addition is that it brings push notifications to the browser and chrome OS. Google announced the feature in a ...

Google builds push notifications into Chrome, Chrome OS
CNET / 5/10/13
On Thursday, Google enabled a service called Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome (GCM) that brings push notifications to its browser and to Chrome OS, its browser-based operating system. Mark Scott, a Google product manager, announced the service in ...

Google offers iOS developers quick return to apps from Chrome
Inquirer / 5/8/13
Google's OpenInChromeController class allows developers to send users to the Chrome web browser but present a "back" button that doesn't send users to iOS' main app screen but back to the original app. From a developer's point of view this should help ...

Google Offers Code That Intergates Chrome In iOS Apps
iOS Doc / 5/8/13
There are some of you that would like to be able to open links right into Google Chrome instead of opening them into the Safari browser that is the default iOS browser. Well, you will be able to from now on as Google release a code to developers allowing ...

Google looks to spark iOS browser war with OpenInChrome function
Apple Insider / 5/8/13
Google looks to spark iOS browser war with OpenInChrome function. By Kevin Bostic. Google looks to be attempting to grow its mini-ecosystem on Apple's iOS platform, as the search giant is now enticing developers to have their apps open web links in its Chrome browser. chromed out. Google on ... Google's Chrome browser debuted to some degree of popularity, but the inability to set it as a default browsing app on iOS has relegated the browser to a very distant second place to Apple's Safari among iOS browsers.

IE 10 doubles its share of desktop browser market
CNET / 5/1/13
... desktop browser market. The latest version of IE now claims 6 percent of the browser desktop market, according to Net Applications. ... Among the rival browsers in general, IE holds the overall lead with almost 56 percent of the market. Firefox takes second ...

IE10 Doubles Share of Browser Market
Datamation / 5/1/13
NetApplications has published its browser market statistics for April, and the big story is that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its market share. IE remained most popular desktop browser, while Apple's Safari continued its reign as the most ...

UCWeb eyes top spot in Indian mobile browser market
Times of India / 4/24/13
China-based mobile internet browser company UCWeb today said it aims to become the number one mobile browser in the country by the end of this year. "We currently hold more than 25% of market share of the mobile browser market in India. We aim to ...

Browser war brewing: Google ditches Webkit for Blink, Mozilla partners with ...
TechSpot / 4/4/13
But with Google controlling a majority of the browser market share on desktop and mobile combined -- 38% according to StatCounter -- maybe they feel confident enough to part ways with Apple. There's still work to be done before that can happen, however.