Google’s Chrome OS doesn’t signal the apocalypse for Apple and Microsoft, but that doesn’t mean the operating system won’t succeed when it arrives next year. Just like the Chrome Web browser, Google’s carving out a small slice of the market for people who want the company’s buzzwords of speed, security and simplicity. Over time, the legion of Chrome OS fans will grow, and Google will look at its operating system as a success, not a failure. Price Google still hasn’t said how much Chrome OS machines will cost, but there are a couple things to remember:...

New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on. Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four months after declaring its intention of developing the PC’s main software, a move that pits it directly against Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc. True to Google’s internet-pedigree, the Chrome OS resembles a web browser more than it does a traditional computer operating system like Microsoft Windows, matching Google’s ambition to drive people to the Web where they can see Google ads. The software will be initially be available by the holiday...

Does google really google? Ironically, google the search engine company, is gathering flack from the industry for not ‘googling’. According to reports, the company recently released its new programming language and named it ‘Go’. However, another language by that name already exists and even has a significant profile on Google’s own servers. The original ‘Go’ language creator, Frank McCabe, is apparently up in arms over Google’s ‘Go’, and is demanding the company change the name of its language so he doesn’t have to change the...

Google created their own programming language. But is there a need to create a new language? Well here is some details about the Go programming language. Go offers an expressive type system, fast compilation, good performance, and built-in language features that simplify threaded programming and concurrency. The language has been under development for roughly two years. It started out as a 20 percent project—time that Google’s engineers are given to use as they choose for undirected experimentation—and evolved into a serious full-time undertaking. Google is releasing the source code...

A new programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine is available thanks to a couple of Google’s developers.  Called Noop (pronounce it like an abbreviated version of “no operation”), the developers claim that it combines the finest aspects of other languages and attempts to guide users towards accepted best practices. Other parts of the new Noop homepage (which is hosted by Google Code) explain that Noop “in source form looks similar to Java.  The goal is to build dependency injection and testability into the language from the beginning, rather than rely...