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Google is releasing an operating system for laptops and desktops, in a direct challenge to Microsoft's money-making core business. The company will also encourage developers to get on board by allowing them to use ordinary web development tools with the OS ...Read More

Google promises that users of its new Chrome OS won't "have to deal with viruses, malware, and security updates." It's way too soon to evaluate the accuracy of those claims; the final release of the operating system is at least ...Read More

Respected developers are ditching the App Store over frustrations with Apple, a court has smacked down Mac cloner Psystar, Apple is working on Mac OS X 10.5.7 (*gasp*), Google Earth 2.0 is out for iPhone, and more. Catch up with ...Read More

Unless you live in a cave, don't care at all about technology or have been distracted by Sarah Palin's publicity tour, you've probably heard that Google showed its Linux-based Chrome operating system to the world yesterday. Google, a company born and ...Read More

The Spike TV Video Game Awards will once again double as as an autumnal E3 as new games are revealed, new trailers unveiled. Halo: Reach is coming. As is whatever this game is, teased first on Kotaku in video below. Thoughts? ...Read More

So I took the plunge and installed Chrome OS on a virtual machine on my Windows 7 laptop. I used Sun's free VirtualBox virtualization software and the downloadable version of Chrome OS hosted by Gdgt. Actually, when I used the ...Read More

(WIRED) -- Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their ...Read More

You've gotta hand it to Google: The company is never shy about throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick. Over the years, it's introduced countless projects that have gone through long beta cycles only ...Read More

Though you may think us to be iPhone fans all the time, we really do want to root for the underdog. Whether it's Google's Android or Palm's webOS, the smartphone industry could really use a David to the iPhone's Goliath ...Read More

Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That's what Google should've done with its open-source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday. Instead, Google is positioning Google Chrome OS against Microsoft with a lightweight ...Read More

In addition to rolling out its Chrome OS code, Google on Thursday also unveiled automatic captions and timing for YouTube. Automatic captions will use the speech-to-text algorithms currently used in Google Voice to produce captions for a selected video. These captions ...Read More

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google's dual-pronged operating-system strategy will likely produce a single OS down the road, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Many Google observers were puzzled when the company announced plans for Chrome OS in July, coming amid growing acceptance of ...Read More

The open source version of Google Chrome OS was released on Thursday, and tech wizards didn't waste any time turning the code into a workable test version of the new operating system. If you don't want to wait until next ...Read More

But it's missing the point to compare the Chrome OS with Microsoft's operating systems. The Chrome OS isn't an operating system at all. It's an advertising medium. View Slideshow See all (8) slides More And although its evolution may take ...Read More

In 2009, it's better to be an Internet company that's taking slow, awkward first steps toward the PC, than a PC company that's still trying and failing to truly integrate with the Internet. Ars looks at what Chrome OS means ...Read More