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Yes! You heard that right. Google already dominates the web, but take heed, the netbook is next.
In Google's next step to not "be evil" they have unveiled their plans for a light and open-source operating system based on Linux, called the Google Chrome Operating System, which they call "a natural extension of Google Chrome."
Gone are the days when you'd call the browser a "natural extension" of the operating system, Google is planning to take it the other way around, the Google Chrome OS will be built around Google Chrome: running on the Linux kernel and a new windowing system.
What they intend is to have the entire functionality you expect form an operating system straight from the browser! The web will be the entirety of the platform, and developers can create applications which can run on the browser itself, while the UI stays out of the way. What they tout is that all these applications will also run on any browser on anyone's PC, making it a very attractive platform, since anyone whether or not they are running Google Chrome OS will be able to use them.
Google intends to have Netbooks out in the second half of next year (2010) which will be running the Google Chrome OS, and have already tied up with OEM to enable that. Their OS will run on both x86 and ARM platforms but is not to be confused with Android, which is their solution for smartphones and other similar low power devices such as set-top boxes.
Google intends for this to be target to netbooks initially with presumably higher-powered devices next. There had already been much speculation about bringing Android to Netbooks, which form a kind of mid-way point between the arena that Android targets and conventional full-featured OSs.
The philosophy that they espouse in the creation of this OS is, that with computers developed before internet, the very structure of an OS need to be rethought, and who else better to rethink things than Google itself... In this rethinking process they have come up with the Google Chrome OS, to take you from a black screen to working on Internet applications in a few seconds.
Welcome to the Google future, where you run a Google OS to search on Google, to communicate using Google Wave, to work on Google Docs, and to run your business using Google Apps.
A is a very special Year for the orkut team (and hopefully for us as well). After months of hard work, Orkut thrilled to announce the launch of a brand spanking new version of orkut. They listening carefully to all of the feedback that you've so diligently left us and have rebuilt the site from the bottom up using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Doing so has allowed Them to create a faster, richer and more intuitive experience for us and continue to increase There pace of innovation. With the new version of orkut We find
Fewer pages, faster browsing
A clean, simple interface
Greater personalization
And much, much more
Excited about the new version of the site? Then you'll also be excited to know that we're returning to orkut's roots and granting access to it via invitations. Starting today, there is ways to get invites
Find a friend who's already using the new version of orkut and ask for an invite. You can see who's already gotten access via your activity stream or by this icon 
that will appear on your friends' profile pages, next to their names.
Windows 7+Intel= "Wintel" — Well, the mathematical operation in question is not that boring because it holds great benefit for all you laptop users. The innovation from the partnership promises to sort out the most significant annoyance of our notebooks - the battery life. As PCMAG reports,
In a demonstration of two identically configured ThinkPads T400s, Intel and Microsoft claimed that a Windows XP SP2 machine consumed on average 20.2 watts, while the Windows 7 machine consumed 15.4 watts. That translated to about 1.4 hours of additional battery life,
It is darn impressive I know. But isn't this a fascinating revelation that tweaking an OS can gift you such power efficiency? Actually, Windows 7 team and Intel both are separately investigating on the power consumption related to hardware, CPU usage, resource hungry processes, BUS speed etc. They are taking notes together and comparing them and thereby working on them from firmware as well as software level to improve.
Windows 7 is also using a technology named as timer coalescing, a technical term for minimizing the time in which the processor enters a high-performance, full-power state. That is another contributing factor behind this success.
Intel has made a dedicated chip for this called Westmere that is running in compatibility with Windows 7. It has hardware acceleration technique too that is significantly improving the encryption algorithm runtimes namely AES.
All in all, what is the bottom line for everybody who wants to get the gist out of this greek. It is heartening and obviously awe-inspiring to know that Intel and Windows 7 are coming with a joint venture that will help batteries run that much longer. You will have to wait for a few days before this dedicated Wintel machines come up. So, if you are thinking about a hardware upgradation in your lappy or buying a new one, wait till end of October and 1 st week of nov. All the stars are falling on that fall.
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