Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The default new tab page looks like a timesaver. The idea of a 'home page' is - for most people that know how to change their browser's setting - is a thing of the past. Chrome replaces the predefined home page or an empty tab with thumbnails of your nine most-visited pages plus a list of your most-searched sites.
Exactly how well this works in practice remains to be seen. I'll give it a go, but I suspect I may return to using a blank page as the default action.
A Safari and Internet Explorer 8 style touch is the privacy mode ('porn mode,' as some people have labelled it) that does not add pages to the history list or keep any cookies after the tab is closed.
And all this is open source, so if some of the ideas take off, you can expect to see them turn up in other browsers. subject to licence compliance.
So when will Chrome be available? Tuesday September 2, US time. But the first beta release will be for Windows only, with Mac and Linux versions still under development.
David Bass
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