Some of the Chrome apps are free while others are available for a fee, similar to the app markets for Apple Inc.

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Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has invested a lot of money in the technology, offering a free Chrome tool to those who would like to type with their voice (among other things).

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Like Firefox's, Chrome's source code is free for anybody to change and improve, and even for rival browser-makers to incorporate.

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First you need to install the free Google Books app and the Chrome Internet browser.

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But on Tuesday, when Google revealed its new browser known as Chrome, it became clear how GreenBorder's engineers have been earning their free lunches for the last 15 months: devising a way to inoculate the search giant's new toy against the Web's epidemic of cybercrime.

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This holiday season, Google Chrome has teamed up with AirTran Airways, Delta, and Virgin America to offer free Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi on every domestic flight from November 20, 2010 through January 2, 2011.

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