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Day two of Google I/O 2012 has started, and Big G just gave us an update on the success of its cloud storage solution. Google Drive’s been accessed by over 10 million people, which comes out to about 1 million a week since its launch. Not a massive number, but it’s a pretty good start, and with the explosive growth of Android and the addition of Chrome OS and iDevice users to the Drive party, the cloud locker’s legion of users will continue to grow.

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Windows, Mac and Android users are no longer alone in their access to Google Drive’s online repository. Now iOS and Chrome OS users can install a client and pull down their data and docs (though, the promised Linux client was nowhere to be seen at IO). The iOS app has all the features that make Drive drive great on Android, including OCR and picture recognition. As part of the demo, Clay Bavor, Director of Product Management for Google Apps, showed off the apps ability to decipher and index text from receipts he had taken a picture of. Perhaps more impressive though, was his ability to simply type “pyramids” and have his vacation snapshots pop up. There was no metadata attached to the images identifying them as the pyramids in Egypt, Google was able to recognize the landmarks by analyzing the photos.

Obviously, Drive and seamless integration with it is key to Chrome OS’s success. Now the browser-based OS finally has a native Drive client allowing you to quickly sync and access your data on the lightweight Linux machines. The ability to sync files with Chrome OS is great, but more importantly, an update to the web service has now made offline editing available — perhaps the most requested feature. Now with offline access ironed out and all the major desktop and mobile OSes under it’s belt Drive may actually be ready to challenge peripheral competitors like Dropbox.

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Google Drive client comes to Chrome OS and iOS, available today originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week the Google Chrome browser has been introduced for the iPhone. The Chrome browser started up Google I/O’s 2012 keynote on the second day of the event, with Chrome as a browser connecting with Chrome as a browser as an operating system being shown to connect across any number of devices. Of course we’d seen much of this in the past as Google Chrome has been connected in this Google accounts way for several months. This browser is able to rather able, as its been demonstrated today, to work from a laptop to a Chromebook to a smartphone to a Nexus 7 tablet and back.

The extreme speed at which the browser works back and forth between the operating system and the browser was shown off on stage in real time. The Chrome browser was shown off on two Apple systems as well – both the iPhone and the iPad.

The Chrome browser was demonstrated onstage with both the iPhone 4/4S as well as the iPad 3 with no less than the same syncing powers as the rest of the device universe. Now not only will you be able to work with Chrome on your Android and desktop systems, you’ll be good to go with iOS as well. Check it out on the iTunes store today!

Also check out the timeline below to see all sorts of recent Chrome news, and hit up our I/O 2012 portal for more news from Google’s developer conference all week!

Chrome hits the iPhone and iPad is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google just did what many thought wasn’t possible — it just put mobile Chrome on iOS. Both iPad and iPhone users will get the app, either with incognito browsing, syncing and that unique tabbed browsing interface intact. The company hasn’t said what’s changed versus the Android build, but it’s likely the main differences are matters of integration — Apple’s app rules won’t let Google bring in its own WebKit rendering engine tweaks or change the default browser. Whether or not that switch is a dealbreaker, Chrome should be available later today in the App Store for those who want a break from the Safari norm.

Check out our full coverage of Google I/O 2012’s developer conference at our event hub!

Update: No download just yet, but Google is teasing us with a video that you can find after the break. The iOS port shows up at the 43-second mark.

Update 2: It’s available! Hit the source link to get your copy.

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Google puts Chrome on iPhone and iPad (update 2: it’s out!) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The second keynote of Google I/O 2012 has kicked off, with the news that the Chrome browser is now up to 310 million active users, compared to 160m back at IO 2011. The browser has had a significant surge in adoption – Google counted 70m active users back in 2010 – and the search giant claims that by all the metrics it can find, Chrome is the most popular web browser globally.

Chrome isn’t just widely adopted, it’s saving time and energy according to Sundar Pichai of Chrome and Apps for Google. In fact, the omnibar search box – which allows users to search or put addresses into the same box – apparently saves 13 years of human life every single day.

Meanwhile, there’s 60 billion words typed into Chrome every day, and 1TB of data downloaded. Google also demonstrated sync between Chrome on different devices, something else that the company says will save user-time.

You can download Chrome from here.

310m active users makes Chrome the top browser worldwide is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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