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Here's a link to downloads for a build you can try in a VM: http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/
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Google's Fast Flip is an interesting way to quickly browse the news. They have a link to an Android or iPhone mobile version on the page its a really cool way to browse the news.
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I very much hope you prove prescient, 3vi1 ; Microsoft - and above all we users - need some competition in the OS market. I wonder what the release of Google 's Chrome for netbooks will bring in its train ? Henri
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughed off the very idea of Google doing an operating system, much less it being any sort of challenge to Microsoft's love-it-or-hate-it Windows franchise. Being rather coy, Ballmer called Chrome "Interesting." In full: "I will be respectful, who knows...
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That's actually pretty cool. I like that they make these kind of improvements, even when there's probably no one clamoring for them. Resting upon laurels in the absence of real competition is a prime reason many products aren't any better than they currently are.
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Sometimes when searching for images on the web, you have a very specific look in mind. A color, a drawing vs. photograph, only extra-large images. With that in mind, Google's rolled out several filters on its image searches that allow users to do just that. Need photographs of purple orchids? Got...
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Google knows where you live (approximately) and it's not afraid to use that knowledge in your search results. The search engine/e-mail/aggregator giant announced on its blog that it's finished its "worldwide rollout of local search results on a map." Even if you don't type in a...
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Google Voice, which some are calling Gmail for phones, is being rolled out. For now, it will be available only to users of GrandCentral, which Google acquired all the way back in 2007. GrandCentral basically consolidates all your phones, giving you a single number to ring on your home, work and mobile...
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In April of 2008, Aaron and Christine Boring (yes, that's really their last name) sued Google over an alleged privacy violation after a Street View image of their property was posted to the web. They had what seemed to be a flimsy case, and the U.S. District Court of Pennsylvania agreed, as it dismissed...
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I saw some threads elsewhere which folks were saying the Google itself was a site that was being reported to not be safe by Google. Probably some sort of hack. Damn funny that it happened with Google's own pages too though. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on...