Google unveils Chrome

Google has released the beta version of its new open source browser Chrome, reports DM News.

Google says it has been working on the browser for the past two years and hopes advancements to the browsing experience will be made much more quickly than in the past.

The beta version is currently available for Windows users in 122 countries and in 43 languages, according to Google, and it's working on Mac and Linux versions as well.

Fonality, a provider of open source telephony and communications systems, announced it has obtained a $12 million financing round led by venture capital firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund, with participation from existing investor Intel Capital, says TMCnet.

Fonality plans to use this additional capital to continue expanding its share of the $7 billion domestic telephony market and set up shop in the $25 billion global telephony market, focusing specifically on affordability and mobility for businesses with five to 500 people per location.

Fonality's open source technology links all forms of business communication -- instant message, landline calling, mobile calling, chat, voicemail, customer relationship management (CRM) and e-mail into one unified desktop software application.

Government officials in New York will be able to test open source software at a new laboratory being created by the City University of New York, in collaboration with software maker Red Hat and Intel, says GCN.

The New York City Open Source Solutions Lab is being established at the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development.

The lab resources will be available to New York-based government IT professionals to test and evaluate open source software solutions based on Intel architecture.