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New mobile Chrome feature can cut your data usage by up to half Jan 15th 2014, 16:50, by Jeremy Kirk Google is adding a feature to its Chrome mobile browser that can reduce data usage by up to 50 percent, which could avoid extra data charges from carriers. The feature, which manages bandwidth and compresses data, will be in Chrome for Android and iOS, wrote Matt Welsh, a Google software engineer, on a company blog. Chrome will have a setting called "bandwidth management" with a selection "reduce data usage" which can be toggled on. The interface will also show how much bandwidth has been saved, Welsh wrote. More than a fifth of adult smartphone users do most of their browsing on a smartphone, he wrote. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: chrome-for-android-100225541-small.png

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