A summary of today’s Google news, because even though I do my best to keep up with the daily flow of tech news, these days, I come across so much news about Google that it’s hard to keep up:

It’s been a long time coming, but now that Chrome sports thousands of extensions, Google is finally taking steps to give the Extensions Gallery a much-needed makeover. Good Start, but Just the Beginning Sadly, it’s still rather hard to just browser Chrome extensions, but at least Google now features separate sections for featured blogging, web [...]

Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $10.3 billion. The company reported operating income of $3.4 billion, net income of $2.4 billion and EPS of 43 cents. From the press release: “The investments we’re making in leading edge technology are delivering the most compelling product line-up in our history,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and [...]

So Apple finally allowed Opera’s browser into the store. That’s the good news. The bad news, however, is that it’s not a full replacement for Safari. Sure, it’s fast – very fast. But it also has quite a few small issues that – once compounded – make Opera let less useful than it could’ve been. [...]

According to French news agency AFP, the hacker who defaced U.S. President Barack Obama’s Twitter account last year was arrested by French police earlier today. This hacker, who goes by the pseudonym “Hacker Croll” is also infamous for leaking a number of Twitter’s internal documents to TechCrunch.

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<rant> Allen Stern wrote a nice, concise rant about Friendfeed today, where he argues that FF still has to fix a lot of usability issues before it can ever go mainstream. I mostly agree with Allen, but I think that FF’s real issue goes far deeper than just usability. Sadly, being a big fan of Friendfeed [...]

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