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Looking at Google these days we not only see a search giant but also a software company which has been built through acquisitions and internal developments. Google now boldly validates this fact with the announcement of Google Chrome OS, a lightweight open source operating system. “Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects,” says Sundar Pichai, VP of Product Management at Google.

The first place we can expect to see the Google Chrome OS in action will be on netbooks, popular with business travelers, and eventually full-sized desktops. The operating system is targeted towards users who spend most of their time online. The new OS is designed to start up and launch the Web within a few seconds.

Viruses, malware, and security updates may be a thing of the past for Google Chrome OS users. “It should just work,” says Google who is “going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS.”

With Microsoft battling for ranking in the search market and Google booting into the OS market, expect to see some interesting developments in the near future.

Source: Google Blog

Today Intel Corp. and Nokia Corp. publicly announce a partnership to “define a new mobile platform beyond today’s smartphones, notebooks and netbooks, enabling the development of a variety of innovative hardware, software and mobile Internet services.”

While details are still in the works the two companies have said the new devices “will marry the best features and capabilities of the computing and communications worlds and will transform the user experience, bringing incredible mobile applications and always on, always connected wireless Internet access in a user-friendly pocketable form factor.”

The plans are to include open source mobile Linux projects along with an Intel acquisition of Nokia’s HSPA/3G modem IP license.

Source: Sacramento Business Journal