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New York (NY) ? Following media reports that Google may move into Amazon.com territory, the company today confirmed that it will be offering ebook publishers a distribution channel through its websites. The news arrived from the annual BookExpo convention in New ...Read More

Earlier this week, Google gave the world a first look at the Chrome OS. The press event confirmed what was suspected when Google announced it was working on a netbook operating system four months ago -- it would emphasize speed ...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

If you were interested in buying the Barnes & Noble Nook as a holiday gift, strike it off your list. The e-reader is now officially sold out through 2009, according to the B&N Web site. "The hottest holiday gift is out ...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

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

Google gave its first public demonstration today of Chrome OS, the operating system it's developing for PCs (primarily cheaper netbooks). It presented the demo via webcast from its headquarters in Mountain View, and it looked pretty solid. Although there's been some ...Read More

Google announced today that YouTube will be able to automatically include captions in videos. Previously, you had to enter the caption manually while the video was uploading, an option that was usually overlooked. That was also a problem for those ...Read More

Six channels run by universities are also involved in the initial launch. YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site. The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in ...Read More

Yes, Google has open-sourced Chrome OS, its much-discussed browser-based operating system. But as usual, the open sourcing only says so much about its openness. After all, this isn't something you can load on any PC. And it's not much of an ...Read More

Google showed off an update of its forthcoming Chrome OS operating system at its headquarters in Silicon Valley today. The whole point of the operating system -- meant for simple computers and launching in about a year -- is that it's ...Read More

Until Wednesday, Wal-Mart was siccing its legal team on websites of all types to keep its Black Friday 2009 deals from lighting up cyberspace. At the same time, Radio Shack was e-mailing scanned copies of its "Shack Friday" circular to ...Read More