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Twitter Leak Illustrates Google Chrome OS Security Hazards

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Recently leaked Twitter documents that were stored on Google Apps highlight a deeper issue – namely, when everything you do is stored online, how will you protect your personal data? As Google revs up its new Chrome OS, phishing and hacker attempts will be exacerbated. How, exactly, will you deal with your data security in this brave new world of data portability?
– This week, Twitter had sensitive documents leaked in a roundabout
method that involved a Twitter employee being phished and their Google
password used to access sensitive data stored online in Google Apps.
TechCrunch, the final recipient of these documents, vigorously defended
their position on …


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With Chrome OS, Google Is Doing What Other Vendors Should Have

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

By working to shift the center of application development to the Web, Google isn’t only improving its own position, but is also doing Apple, the open-source community, Microsoft and the rest of us a big favor.
– There’s a new chapter under way in the saga of Google versus Microsoft one
that comes in the form of two major product announcements that have tech
pundits licking their chops for a clash of the computing titans.
In one corner, we have Google, which announced
plans to develop a second Linux-base…


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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Talks Google Chrome OS, Bing

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke about Google Chrome OS during the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, dismissing Google’s netbook -centric operating system as unable to fully accomplish users’ needs. At the same time, Ballmer held up Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, as an example of the companys tenacity as it continues to battle Google and other rivals for online-application market share.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dismissed Google’s new Chrome OS as
focusing too much on the netbook market, while praising his own companys
Bing search engine his July 14 keynote address
at Microsofts Worldwide Partner
Conference in New Orleans.

Ballmer suggested that the Google Chrome OS, a …


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What Do Developers Think of Google Chrome OS?

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Google announced its Chrome operating system on July 7 and developers have been weighing in on what it means for the developer ranks ever since the company said it was building an OS based on its Chrome browser.
– Google announced its Chrome operating system on July 7 and developers have been weighing in on what it means for the developer ranks ever since the company said it was building an OS based on its Chrome browser.
Developer reaction has ranged from excitement over Google adding energy to delivering G…


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10 Reasons We Are Excited About Google Chrome OS

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Google announced July 8 that the company is entering the operating system market with its Chrome OS. This will be a lightweight operating system with a GUI consisting of the Chrome browser. With the release of Chrome OS, Google is clearly challenging Microsoft Windows. Why do we welcome a new Web-ready OS? eWEEK Labs Analyst Jeff Cogswell ponders the possibilities.
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Chrome OS Can’t Compete with Microsoft Windows—Yet

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Chrome OS doesn’t have what it takes to compete with Windows yet. But could it happen over time? Possibly, but a lot of software development has to take place before Chrome OS will be considered a major player in the business world.
– Google’s Chrome
OS is being heralded as the next big thing in the operating system space. Google
is saying Chrome OS is the next quot;logical step quot; for operating systems.
It plans to bring its technology to netbooks by 2010, although Acer and
Hewlett-Packard hope to have Chrome
OS on thei…


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Google Chrome OS Is a Direct Challenge to Microsoft in the Netbook Market

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Research firm iSuppli is calling Googles Chrome OS a direct challenge to Microsofts growing market for netbook software. Prime for cloud computing, Chrome OS is targeted at netbooks which iSuppli expects to see grow to shipments of 36.3 million units by 2012.
– Google chief executive Eric Schmidt recently declined to discuss the possibility of a rivalry between Microsoft and Google, which will be shipping a new operating system, Chrome OS, later this year.

Analysts from research firm iSuppli, however, are predicting that
Google is ready to take on M…


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6 Cool & Useful Google Chrome Tricks

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

There is no doubt that Google Chrome browser has grown in popularity since its launch and could well become the most used browser in some years, primarily because of its speed and efficiency and also because it would now form the basis of a new operating system.
I personally use Google Chrome a lot on a [...]

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Microsoft Gazelle Could Take On Google Chrome OS

July 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft’s ace in the hole in its upcoming battle against Google Chrome OS, the search giants new browser-based operating system, could be a browser-OS hybrid project code-named Gazelle. As more and more applications move into the cloud, the need for a browser-based OS, one that can intelligently interface with a PC while managing Web resources, may become more intensive than ever for both Microsoft and Google as they compete for market share.
– The media cycle of past few days has been dominated by word of Microsofts
apparently imminent demise at the hands of Google Chrome OS, the search-engine
giants newly announced operating system initially intended for mininotebooks,
known popularly as quot;netbooks. quot;
While
predictions of th…


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HP, Acer Developing Google Chrome OS Netbooks, Schmidt Says

July 11th, 2009 | No Comments

HP and Acer netbooks running Googles new Chrome OS could be available as soon as this year, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt announced at the annual Allen Co. conference. Chrome OS may give Schmidt reason to leave Apples board, but he declined to acknowledge Microsoft as a competitor.
– Netbooks running Chrome OS, Googles newly announced operating system, may
be available later this year, according to a report from Reuters, which
quoted Google chief executive Eric Schmidt at the Allen amp; Co. media and
technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho,
on July 9.

“Everybody wev…


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What Would You Do if Google Web Services Stopped Being Free?

July 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Analysis: Google’s introduction of its Chrome Operating System is causing a lot of debate in the high-tech sector, with some pundits mulling whether Google has taken its free software model to the edge in its attempt to battle Microsoft. eWEEK asks readers what they would pay for Google’s Web services.
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Google’s introduction of Chrome OS, its Linux-based operating system for netbooks, sparked no shortage
of questions by reporters and bloggers. You can easily tick off a list of 20
questions and that wouldn’t begin to cover the minutiae and the what-ifs.
Long term: Will Chrome OS be…


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Chrome now works on Linux and Mac

June 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Everybody loves Googles great browser, Chrome. Heck, I do too. It’s really one of the best browsers out there, and it really has a strong chance of toppling down Firefox. Really.
Oh, wait, there’s a bit of a problem: you can’t use Chrome if you’re not on Windows. Oh yeah. That.
For the longest time, Linux and [...]

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