InternetGoogle to Shake Up Browsers With Own Launch

UPDATED: Putting the rumors to rest, Google has unveiled plans for an open source Web browser it plans to launch today in more than 100 countries.

Google is jumping into the browser wars with both feet today with the launch of its new open source Web browser, called Google Chrome. The new browser takes elements from Mozilla Firefox as well as Apple's Safari Web browser to deliver what Google hopes will be an optimized Web experience. The Chrome browser will have Google facing off against its partner Mozilla as well as its rival Microsoft for domination of the Web browser market. Chrome is geared for handling the increasingly complex and data-rich applications such as video that are accounting for an ever-greater share of Internet traffic, and that can challenge the limits of existing browsers. "We realized that the Web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser," Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, wrote in a company blog post. "What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for Web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build." RELATED ARTICLES Microsoft Issues Warnings on IE 8 Beta 2 Mozilla's Millions by The Numbers Mozilla's Ubquity Mashup: For The Masses? Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? Here Comes Google's Browser For more stories on this topic: Google is releasing the Windows version of Chrome today with versions for Mac and Linux systems to follow. In the proud Google tradition... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

InternetMySpace to launch "High School Musical" contest (Reuters)

Reuters - MySpace plans to launch a contest on Tuesday to market the latest in Walt Disney Co's blockbuster franchise "High School Musical 3" in what the News Corp Internet social network called its biggest film campaign to date.

InternetYour own private YouTube (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - YouTube is part of the social fabric of the Internet now, with ???watch this video??? e-mails of the new millennium replacing the joke-list e-mails of the '90s as high-level corporate time-wasters.