(CNN) -- A month ago, Google's three-year effort to push its Web browser, Chrome, took a major step when analysts said it had passed Mozilla's Firefox to become the second-most popular tool of its kind on the Internet. Today, that climb continues and has some tech observers wondering whether Chrome could do the unthinkable and topple perennial leader Internet Explorer from atop the browser rankings. According to Web analytics firm StatCounter, the most popular version of Google's browser, Chrome 15, edged out Internet Explorer 8 in early December to become the world's most used edition of a browser. (For those keeping score, the totals were 23.6% of worldwide browser usage compared to IE8's 23.5%.)

While Google tries to erode Explorer's browser share,

OPTIONS:
- CNN is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- Chrome is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- Firefox is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- Gartner is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- Google is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- IE is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- IE8 is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- IE9 is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- Internet is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- Internet Explorer is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- Internet Explorer 8 is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- Microsoft is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- Mozilla is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
- StatCounter is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.
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Microsoft is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.


(Time.com) -- Last week, a U.S. District judge dealt a serious blow to Google and Samsung by slapping an injunction on the Galaxy Nexus phone and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in a patent infringement lawsuit. Although Judge Lucy Koh hasn't found Samsung guilty of patent infringement--not yet, anyway--she ruled that Apple would suffer irreparable harm if the two Android devices were found to infringe Apple patents and remained on sale during the trial. Time.com: Per Apple request, judge orders Samsung to halg Galaxy tablet sales The Galaxy Nexus is Google's lead Android device, so Koh's ruling is the biggest patent setback for Android to date. (Samsung has appealed Koh's ruling.)

If you own a

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- Android or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- Apple or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- Galaxy or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- Galaxy Nexus or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- Galaxy Tab 10.1 or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- Google or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- Koh or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- Lucy Koh or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- Samsung or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- Time.com or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
- U.S. or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.
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Galaxy Nexus or Galaxy Tab 10.1, no one's going to show up at your doorstep and ask for it back.


Near San Cristobal, Cuba (CNN) -- Fifty years ago, 15-year-old Omar Lopez knew a secret that governments around the world would have killed to learn or safeguard: Soviet troops were building hidden military installations in Cuba. One of those installations was on the farm where his family raised chickens and pigs. In 1962, Fidel Castro's revolution was just beginning to reshape Cuba. Thousands of Cubans had fled the country, and the year before, Castro's troops had routed a U.S.-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs. Read more: Should the U.S. fight or befriend Cuba? But little of the drama of those times reached the remote Lopez farm in western Cuba, where palm trees vastly outnumber human residents.

"That's when you saw a lot of movement among the

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- Bay of Pigs troops."
- CNN troops."
- Castro troops."
- Cuba troops."
- Cuban troops."
- Cubans troops."
- Fidel Castro troops."
- Lopez troops."
- Omar Lopez troops."
- San Cristobal troops."
- Soviet troops."
- U.S. troops."
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Cuba troops."