Google Chrome users who find web apps in the store will be able to create convenient shortcuts in Chrome for easy access.

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Built for the cloud, they run through a combination of the Chrome OS browser and Web apps.

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Additionally, hundreds of apps in the Chrome Web Store contain offline functionality including games and the Kindle Cloud Reader.

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Using Google Apps for Education along with thousands of web apps in the Chrome Web Store, students can easily create documents, edit spreadsheets, view multimedia videos, create slide show presentations and view PDF files.

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We're also told that learnings from Android will be carried over to Chrome, and further into the world of web apps.

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Users can access their favorite apps with a single click through the app launcher and find new favorites from the thousands of Chrome apps and games featured in the Chrome Web Store.

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For me, I want the following desktop apps to run on my tablet: Wizard101 and Pirate101 games for my son, Google Chrome web browser, and Evernote.

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Mozilla recently demonstrated Chrome to Firefox browser chat connectivity recently, talking up tools developers can use to build Web real-time communication apps.

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