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10:12AM John Herrman | Google spilled some choice Chrome OS guts yesterday, leaving us with a heap of files to sift through. The best part? It included the browser. Google’s files have been pulled, but Linux users can still download Chrome for Chrome here. More »
Linux Users Can Try The Chrome OS Browser Right Now
10:12AM John Herrman | Google spilled some choice Chrome OS guts yesterday, leaving us with a heap of files to sift through. The best part? It included the browser. Google’s files have been pulled, but Linux users can still download Chrome for Chrome here. More »
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Google Chrome OS To Feature Single Sign-In, Ban Other Browsers?
11:00AM Dan Nosowitz | In a line of code in Google’s Chromium, a reference was found to a “login manager,” which is being taken to mean a single sign-in for all programs on the OS. But what does that mean for non-Google software? More »
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Is This The First Real Screenshot Of Chrome OS?
3:27AM Jesus Diaz | Anyone can fake a screenshot. Heck, anyone can fake an Apple Tablet — this is a lot easier. These screenshots of Chrome OS — with a Mac OS X-inspired dock — may be real, but they may be fake for a couple of reasons. More »
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Google CEO Resigns From Apple Board Over “Conflicts Of Interest”
10:40PM John Herrman | Apple’s just gone public with an announcement that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down from the Apple Board of Directors to avoid conflicts of interest. To be fair, things must have been getting pretty awkward over there. More »
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Will We See Google Chrome OS In The Mobile Space?
3:40AM Adrian Covert | At today’s Mobilebeat 2009 Conference, Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra spoke about mobile platforms and what enables success. Interestingly enough, Gundotra quickly mentioned web app development as the future of successful mobile platforms. Does he mean Chrome OS? More »
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Microsoft VP On Chrome: “Most Of What Google Does Is Defensive”
1:15AM Dan Nosowitz | Microsoft’s Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism, Walid Abu-Hadba, explained in an interview what he thinks Google’s real motivation for creating the Chrome OS might be, and according to him, it’s not out of love for the consumer. More »
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Android, Chrome OS Relationship Confusing Everyone, Including Google
10:19PM John Herrman | Just as companies were starting to get serious about installing Android, a mobile Linux OS, on netbooks, Google announces Chrome, a netbook Linux OS. The relationship between the two OSes is already getting tense, or at the very least, awkward. More »
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Google Chrome OS Screenshots Are Fake, Just Like We Thought
8:21AM Dan Nosowitz | John Herrman was pretty sceptical of the Chrome OS screenshots we saw this morning, and as it turns out, rightly so; their creator has piped up and admitted their falsity. More »
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6:54PM John Herrman | It’s hard to totally disprove these first Chrome OS shots, though there are plenty of reasons to be suspect. Setting our scepticism aside for a second, here’s what alleged leakster allegedly saw, allegedly: More »
Are These The First Chrome OS Screenshots?
6:54PM John Herrman | It’s hard to totally disprove these first Chrome OS shots, though there are plenty of reasons to be suspect. Setting our scepticism aside for a second, here’s what alleged leakster allegedly saw, allegedly: More »
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