Chrome OS available as VMWare download

Google had an event yesterday to give us deets on the upcoming Google Chrome OS, and Steven told you a bit about it here. If you are, as Steven said, swimming in the "ocean of Google kool-aid" and ... continue

Google Chrome OS – so is it worth all the fuss? (Round-up)

Anyone who has been on Twitter for the past couple of hours will have notice the over abundance of messages about Google's Chrome OS announcement today. Then the deluge of posts started showing up letting us know ... continue

Event Thursday at Google HQ demos Chrome OS, Chrome extensions

Rumors of an initial, possibly developer-centric release of Google's Chrome OS this week have been swirling, but that looks like a less likely outcome, for now. We do know Google is hosting an event tomorrow at Google Headquarters where ... continue

Google Image Swirl Is Actually Rather Nifty

Google has today launched Google Image Swirl, a new image discovery tool that visually clusters similar images. Google Image Swirl starts with a basic image query, then visually matches similar image based on that query. For example, a ... continue

Acer Liquid A1 Shipping To UK Customers Before End Of November, Leaves Off Android 2.0

Acer has officially announced that the Acer Liquid A1 will begin shipping in late November. The phone which runs Google Android 1.6 "Donut" has also been priced at £286 before tax ($481), thankfully no contract is required ... continue

The War of Giants – coming to a web near you

This has to be one of the few times that I find myself agreeing with Tim O'Reilly but his post today over at O'Reilly Radar touched on something that I've been thinking about for some time now. ... continue

Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica Android Phone Gets Official With 800Mhz Processor

Samsung today officially announced their newest phone, the Google Android based Samsung i5700 also known as the Samssung Galaxy Spica. The smartphone clocks in at a manageable 13.2mm in thickness and features a 3.5mm headphone jack for audiophiles ... continue

Time for Google, and Microsoft, to call Murdock’s bluff

There's been a lot of go-round this past week about Rupert Murdock yanking everyone's chain about pulling their content from Google unless the search giant is willing to cough up some money for the privilege of indexing News Corp ... continue

Your Google PageRank may soon depend how fast your site loads – Why?

Google has been making a lot of news over the past while about how it wants to help speed up the web; and as nice as that might be it has gotten more than a few people ... continue

News Corp Dithers on Google Pullout While AP Asks For More Traffic

News Corp has indicated that its expected withdrawal from Google search results won't be for months, while on the same day AP has met with Google asking for more traffic. News Corp’s chief digital officer Jonathan Miller told ... continue

Chrome OS to launch within the week?

After several spurious sightings in the wild, rumors intensified this morning that the hotly anticipated Google Chrome OS might be released within the week. Google said earlier in 2009 that the open source operating system would be available ... continue

Dell Officially Announces Mini 3 Smartphone, Forgets To Mention Specs

Dell has officially announced the arrival of their Mini 3 Google Android Based Smartphone, the companies first foray into the Smartphone market dominated by Apple, Research In Motion (Blackberry) and Google Android Smartphones. According to Dell the touchscreen ... continue