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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Today in Mountain View: The Google Chrome Browser Is Released Into the Wild (and to the Wilding Media)

Later this morning, the media circus has been summoned to the Googleplex in Mountain View for a look-see at Google’s new Chrome browser and a chitchat with Google about the meaning of it all.

(Also, a 100 percent chance of both free comics and tasty organic snacks too!)

And Chrome, the shiny code name of the project, which stuck as the brand name, will also be going out to the world at large right after that.

BoomTown will be doing a video report, of course. But, until then, I have decided to forgo writing the expected long, long, long, long what-the-new-Google-browser-represents-for-geekkind thumbsucker for a much shorter version.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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