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 ...

Google today launched Portable Native Client (PNaCl, pronounced pinnacle) as part of its push to bring native code to more and more platforms. The tool lets developers compile their code once to run ...

Satisfied with its security approach, Google has begun broader development of its technology for more powerful Web applications. Next: building into Chrome. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

An application that was developed for the computer it is running in. For example, a Windows app runs only in a Windows environment, and a Mac app runs only in a Mac environment. Nothing is faster than ...