Tag Archives: Google OS

Google OS and The Privacy Issue: For Some, Google Is Quite Evil

Nice pick up from the USA Today on privacy concerns regarding Google’s upcoming Google OS.  In particular
Privacy advocates want more transparency from Google about how it plans to monetize the vast amounts of behavioral data it collects. Google could charge a pretty penny for this intelligence, which could help advertisers better target their pitches, says [...]

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Google OS’s Hardware Strategy?

Perhaps the key to Google OS’s success is in this key statement that might have been overlooked yesterday:
Messrs. Schmidt and Page were also careful not to position Chrome as a competitor to Microsoft Windows. They argued that Chrome will expand the market for netbooks, rather than eating into Windows’ share of the netbook market.
Messrs. Schmidt [...]

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Holy Moly! Google OS Lives! (… As A Net-Only Cloud-Based Linux-Based OS)

You know, it figures 5 minutes after I pre-order Windows 7 (home premium, if you must wonder) off of Amazon.ca do I learn that Google OS is coming to netbooks far and yonder in the next few months.  Google’s own blog has the details, but its purpose is to allow people to use their netbooks [...]

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