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• Article | 24/10/2011 Microsoft, Compal sign patent deal covering Android, Chrome

  Microsoft has signed a patent agreement with Taiwan's Compal Electronics that provides coverage under its patent portfolio for Compal's tablets, mobil...
• Article | 14/10/2011 Quanta latest to license patents from MS for Android, Chrome

  Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese contract computer manufacturer, is now the ninth company to license patents from Microsoft for its Android devices, the...
• Article | 12/05/2011 Google launches Chrome OS, says Windows is 'torturing users'

  Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are "torturing users" at Google's Chrome OS launch event Wednesd...
• Article | 12/05/2011 Google: Chrome OS could someday duel with Android

  While Google currently does not see any conflict between its Android vision for tablets and smartphones and its Chrome OS cloud-based laptop vision, a...
• Article | 6/06/2010 Why Google's Windows ban doesn't make sense

  Google's move to ban Windows for internal use was ostensibly for security reasons. But that looks more like a convenient excuse than anything else,...
• Article | 3/06/2010 Google to release Chrome OS in fourth quarter

  Google plans to release its Chrome operating system late this year, initially targeting laptop users, the head of the project said Wednesday.
• Article | 3/02/2010 Touch input rumoured for Google's upcoming Chrome OS

  Google has been focusing development on the netbook and tablet markets for some time now, using Android OS as a stepping stone into the sub-laptop ope...
• Article | 29/12/2009 Chrome netbook specs stretch believability

  Interest in Google's Chrome OS is heating up with the emergence of new rumors about specs for an upcoming netbook. The device would supposedly have a...
• Article | 13/07/2009 Intel is working with Google on Chrome OS

  The world's largest chip maker is working with Google on the Chrome operating system and has been privy to the project for some time, a spokesman for ...
• Article | 10/07/2009 Google Chrome OS shows limitations of Android

  Google's decision to create a new Internet-centric OS for netbooks shows the limitations of the Android mobile OS for netbooks and raises questions ab...
• Article | 9/07/2009 Google's OS security claims called 'idiotic'

  Google, while announcing its new Chrome operating system late Tuesday, said users would no longer have to worry about viruses, malware and security up...
• Article | 9/07/2009 Google's new OS raises privacy, antitrust concerns

  Google's announcement Tuesday that it is developing an open-source operating system raised questions among privacy advocates about the amount of perso...
• Article | 9/07/2009 Google is already working with PC makers on new Chrome OS

  Google plans to announce within the next day or so the names of PC makers in Taiwan and China that have already signed on to work with its new Chrome ...