Google to Release Chrome OS This Fall, With a Netbook?

Earlier this week, it was announced that Google would release its Chrome OS this autumn for free.

“We are working on bringing the device later this fall,” said Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai at CompuTex Taipei, Asia’s biggest IT trade show. “It’s something which we are very excited by … We expect it to reach millions of users on day one,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Going Social with Google Buzz

Earlier today, Google announced its push into social networking with Google Buzz which will allow users to share status updates, photos, and videos in a new Gmail tab called Google Buzz. Android and iPhone users can expect to use Buzz through a web-based application that will allow real-time updates that will update to your Google Buzz feed that can show up on a new version of Google’s mobile maps. Google says that about 1% of current users can expect to see it pop-up for them (not me )and the rest will just have to wait over the week. There’s a video after the jump that explains the wonderful uses of Google Buzz.
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Mid-Week Notes, I’m Still Alive

Okay, yes, posting new articles and what-nots is slow, but I blame Runes of Magic. And Michael Jackson dying . In the meantime, I’ve still been keeping an eye out for some cool techy and geeky stuff to be had across the net, and I found some, so let’s talk a bit, and I even have clips for you!

First, Google finally announced its Chrome OS for netbooks coming towards the end of 2010. There were whispers of the idea before, but now, it’s true, and personally while I don’t want another OS to want to check out, I’m very interested in the idea that Google is making an OS. Mind boggling, I know. From the post on Google’s blog, “Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.” Like I said, I’m interested. So interested I just might have to get another low-end computer to throw it on. Why? Well, sure as hell not because of my coding experience which, for the most part, does not exists, but because I can. If the Chrome OS is anything like the browser, maybe, just maybe, Microsoft will have to step up.

Read the full post on the Official Google Blog.

Next up, ‘Penn & Teller: Bullshit!’ is ready to get Jack Thompson on a ‘Television is evil!’ tirade. While news that, in their seventh season of ‘Bullshit!’, Penn & Teller would be covering video games in a early episode is nothing new, the fact is that this episode is to air tomorrow(Thursday) night at 10PM EST. There’s even a small clip of it that I’m sure will make Jacky Boy a tad bit upset. I love these guys.

Obviously this guy hasn’t heard of a cleric. Gawd wut a n00b!!1!

Finally, what do you get when you try to bring the popular Valve-developed video game, Portal, back to the 80s? You get a nostalgic nerd-gasm. True story, watch the clip.

Phew. Good stuff, right? Anyway, you can check out more at Cymon’s Games.

Oh, so now you get the title, right?

So, with all three of these little news tidbits, one can only wonder when Jack Thompson will become an underground, experimental test subject for Goggle’s new OS?

Googles Opposes Anti-Gay Marriage Proposition

More political fun!

Anyway, in short, Google’s Co-founder, Sergey Brin, made a post on a blog Friday afternoon acknowledging that it is unusual for the company to take a stand on issues outside the tech-related realm, especially social issues.

“However,” Brin says, “while there are many objections to this proposition — further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text — it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8.”

“We should not eliminate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love,” Brin concludes.

And I totally agree! I mean who is ANYONE to go against Google’s word?