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We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series . Last week Microsoft Office bested Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion. This week we turned our attention to a rather timely battle being waged on the mobile front, between Apple’s still wildly-selling iPhone platform and Google’s slower to boil Android mobile operating system. Apparently the latter has been gaining some ground, resulting in our first unexpected upset victory in the Faceoff series. … Google Android is the winning platform by ... Read Full Story

We have known about Google Chrome OS for some time now, but we only got a detailed look at the new operating system at a Google event yesterday . We learned a lot from the event, the thing that shocked us the most was how you will not be able to download Chrome OS onto any machine. We know that Google have partnered with a number of computer manufactures, only these netbooks and laptops will have the new OS installed. However, we did learn that an open source version of Google Chrome OS was made available for download on Thursday. PC World reports that ... Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase Who:   Google Inc.   What: Webcast of Google's update on Google Chrome OS , held at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters.   When: Anytime you'd like to click on the link below.   Where: http://investor.shareholder.com/googpr/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=75092   Why: Google to offer an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology, and launch plans for next year. Speakers will include Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS. About Google Inc. Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world ... Read Full Story

Now that the source code of Chrome OS is in the open the project has entered the second stage of the development phase. I suggest to visit the announcement about Chrome OS that was posted yesterday and take a look at the video posted if you have not followed the news about Google’s operating system closely. In short; Chrome OS will be a cloud based operating system meaning that the majority of data – Google even says all data – will be stored in the cloud. The cloud means remote servers on the Internet. It’s the same thing that many web services like Gmail ... Read Full Story

Google finally launched Chrome Operating System . The operating system was detailed at a press conference . The new operating system brings a dramatically different look and perspective to the market and just may give Microsoft and OS X competition 1.Advantage of Google Chrome Every Application in Google Chrome OS is a Web Application Google Chrome Browser is Part of the OS Foundation Google Chrome OS will Offer Easy Access to Apps Panels Are Persistent Google Chrome OS will Repair Itself There is No Hard Drive Google Chrome will not Run on Just any PC Google Chrome OS Will Work Offline—Sort of 2.Function and ... Read Full Story