Chrome OS: The Google's New Venture

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Yesterday, Google has pulled off the curtain over it's new invention: Chrome OS. And, before anyone there asks, yes! "OS" stands for Operating System (why would anyone put any doubt on Google). Plus, we are not talking about an operating system runing into a browser (WebOS or WebTop) as you could find in G.ho.st or DesktopTwo.

Google is building a full-fledged operating system designed to provide instant access to the internet. The main objective is get from shutdown to ready-for-browsing in a few seconds. And it will be available for free and open source! It will target most on netbooks, where it may let Microsoft eating dust, but may also run on desktops.

Guess its not the end of Microsoft's reign, but it's a step in this direction.

Read the full anouncement on Google's Blog.

UPDATE: Plenty of netbook OEMs had adhere to the new OS. According to telecoms.com, "The web giant said that Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba had all signed up to get involved in the Chrome OS either on a hardware or software level."

New iPhone Patents Submited by Apple

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Apple has submit three new patents for iPhone software features that promise to automate, through configurations or by observing gadget usage, tasks sending "happy birthday" messages based and even like setting up silent mode when phone gets inside a movie theater. The patents also say that the ones trying to call you may get a message informing where you are or that would be better send a text message, instead of calling.

Guess I saw a application with similar features at last Google Android Developer Challenge, ain't I?

Anyway, you may check out more info at Gizmodo's article.

UPDATE: There are also other patents that stand for RFID support, Haptic (tactile feedback) on the Touch Screen, fingerprint identification and more. Checkout @ iLounge.

May I Use Your Charger, Please?

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Alright! Who out there has never get your phone out of batery and had trouble finding a charger? Don't worry! Your problems are now over! European Union get his mind on a simply, yet obvious, idea: a common charger plug pattern! Yes! The same charger may charge a Motorola, Nokia and even Apple assets! Its just like imagining Sonic and the Mario Brothers on the same game... Oh! That's already happened too? Whatever...

The major handset manufacturers just signed up into a Memorandum of Understanding defining that Micro USB will, for now at least, be the default plug for chargers.

Now you may be thinking: "Right, but I'm not in EU grounds...". Now, think twice! They sell the same phone all over the globe, and the changer input plug is all about hardware, which hits on design, so it will be non-sense to build an phone model with the universal plug only for EU. What I mean is that the whole world will get the benefit as a bonus! EU's point!

The first phones covered by this agreement are expected to come out in 2010.

Check out the telecoms.com full note on this major industry move here.