Google has released a new experimental browser plugin that allows web applications to securely run native code on the underlying platform. The plugin, which is called Native Client, is distributed ...

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Google has built into its browser the ability to tap directly into a computer's native processing power through software called Native Client. Also: more extensions work. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

We’ve written a number of things about the contrast between native apps and web apps. The common consensus these days is that the two will eventually converge — but that has been happening more slowly ...

For well over a year now, Google has been hyping up something called Native Client. It’s an open source technology that allows a web browser to run compiled native code. In other words, it’s a ...

It may look like Google ditched a project to bring its native-programming technology to devices using ARM chips, but Google says the project is still under way. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

The Ruby programming language runtime has been ported to Google’s Native Client (NaCl) framework. The port, which was implemented by Google, will make it possible for NaCl-enabled Web browsers to ...

The "write once, run anywhere" promise of Java from the 90s is back in a new guise, as Google today announced Portable Native Client (PNaCl) with the promise to allow developers to "compile their code ...