Move over MTV. Chrome can no longer be limited to tricked out vehicles with their spinning rims anymore. Google has announced that they will be bogarting the word Chrome by releasing their own web browser by that name. This despite the fact that they are the largest financial backer of the Mozilla Foundation, the makers of the world's No. 2 web browser, Firefox. In fact almost 85% of their revenue last year came from Google. What will this mean for web browsing? Will it be another hit like Firefox, or a miserable failure like Safari for Windows? Will people overlook it as another saturation of the browser industry, and receive it underwhelmingly as they seem to have done with google chat in the instant messenger industry? Time will tell.

Google Unveils free browser: Chrome

Mozilla CEO: Chrome was inevitable 

The FCC had expected to vote June 12 on a proposal to auction a 25MHz piece of spectrum in the 2155Mhz band and require the winner to use a specified amount of spectrum for free wireless Internet access.

Lawmakers Urge F.C.C. to Move Forward With ‘Free’ Plan - NYTimes.com

Mobile Internet aggregator iPass it teaming up with in-flight broadband provider Aircell to give its customers access to broadband on planes.

On Tuesday, iPass announced that it would offer Wi-Fi roaming with Aircell Gogo, an in-flight broadband service expected to launch soon in the United States. Aircell's service is expected later this year on American Airlines and Virgin America.

iPass to add in-flight Wi-Fi roaming | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Cablevision is building a Wi-Fi broadband network in the New York area, the company said Thursday.The company said it will use wireless mesh technology to build a high-speed Wi-Fi network that will cover parts of its cable footprint in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. The new network will take two years to complete.Cablevision to build Wi-Fi network | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Netflix has extended an apology, in the form of a discount, to customers in the wake of an 11-hour site outage.

Netflix says sorry with 5 percent credit | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Google Inc. Web site — and much of the company's software — is loaded with gags, goofs and "Easter eggs" that have helped Google maintain a fun-loving spirit in the cutthroat world of Web competition.

Buried deep in Google

A new survey found that more than a quarter of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail and one third have fired workers for misusing the Internet on the job.

Over 50% of companies have fired workers for e-mail, Net abuse

Microsoft today acknowledged a problem that is preventing Hotmail users from accessing their accounts.
PC World - Microsoft Fixing Hotmail Outage

Mozilla Corp. has been quietly offering live Web support for the Firefox Web browser since the beginning of the year. It is one of the open-source group's experiments in improving the user experience and woo more of them from Microsoft Corp.'s still-dominant Internet Explorer.

Mozilla Offering Live Chat Support for Firefox - New York Times

In a move to curtail retaliation by vengeful sellers in its feedback system, eBay plans to prohibit sellers from posting negative feedback about their customers.

eBay sellers to be banned from criticizing buyers | Tech news blog - CNET News.com