Installing it on my laptop has been easy as 1-2-3 (as Jacko used to say with his brothers) but I can’t seem to get a hold on my XP computer at home. Chrome seems to be downloaded and installed successfully, I can see it in my Start menu, but it just won’t start automatically nor manually… Also the Uninstall app won’t work nor uninstalling through the control panel…

I submitted my issue to Google support, you can do the same here.

Interestingly enough, there are already 260k+ pages crawled for “google chrome install issue” keywords!!! Not bad for a couple of days of beta…

There is no surprise in Google making a step forward in the browser arena. I really liked the clever marketing idea of using something as straightforward as a blue-scale comic book to explain some of the concepts and philosophies that brought the dev team to the product. Their focus was to “add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the Web“. Let’s see later today when the public beta becomes available to 100 countries. This is the link.

Last week I was invited to the “Trackability” event in Fiera Milano City. I had really high hopes for the RFID sessions and I attended two of them to gather additional information for my project. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a lot of substance in what was presented. A lot of good intentions, some sales pitches, little info on pilots, no info on actual deployments nor value delivered in Italy…

The only interesting stuff I saw was presented on the StoLPan project introducing some business applications on an NFC-enabled mobile device (Alice Moroni, RFIDlab - Università Sapienza di Roma). Think of acquiring information, accessing services and paying in real time through your cellphone.

I took a walk in the various booths to find that only one vendor was actually showcasing some  RFID hardware…

Better luck next time.

A new advertising channel is coming to town with Yahoo and Adobe teaming up to provide dynamically generated (and, hopefully, relevant) ads on PDFs (Portable Document Format) either via the Internet or email. I think this news is welcome if you are into producing documents and looking for new ways to monetize your efforts (pay-per-click model). My concern for Adobe is that, given the current size and speed of Reader, people would opt for more agile readers such as Foxit which would eventually catch up.

Source: PCWorld