Google Chrome

A new player is coming to shake up our knowledge of operating systems as we know it. Three maybe a crowd but Google doesn’t mind. Coming in to battle staple OS players Windows and Linux, Google has officially teamed up with the workd’s largest processesor manufacturer, Intel, to develop Google Chrome OS.

Already the world’s number one search and engine and a major player in providing e-mail service, Google’s expansion into operating systems through Google Chrome OS, which is set to release sometime in 2010, is easily the biggest news in home software technology today. Said to be virus-free, Google Chrome OS is a welcome development to Intel. “We’ve been privy to the project for some time and work with Google on a variety of projects, including elements of this one. We welcome Google’s move here,” Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer said.

It seems that Intel will likely be the biggest winner in all this. The development of the Google Chrome OS under Intel’s processors will not likely affect the long and storied relationship the company has with Microsoft’s Windows or Linux’s own operating systems.

Intel

Not only will Intel score big time on Google Chrome OS, but with additional rumors that Intel is again in talks with Google about supporting Google’s Android OS on Intel-based MIDs, business will apparently boom for both companies. Knupffer has not confirmed nor denied the news.

After capitalizing on this and the whole of desktop computers, Intel seeks to add more value-adding businesses to its portfolio. Intel has pursued netbooks, handhelds, consumer electronics, and embedded applications as its next targets. “That’s what we’re aiming at,” Intel CEO Paul Otellini confirmed. “This is where we think the growth opportunity is for us.”

After steamrolling the competition that is Linux, Windows will inevitably be pitted against the new Google Chrome OS. Google, after toppling Yahoo!, does not seem to be a big underdog against the OS giant. In a war against computer supremacy with billions of dollars of company worth as ammunition, who will win the looming operating systems battle? Which will you choose, Microsoft Windows or Google Chrome?

One thing’s for sure though: Intel has already won the war.

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Once again, a technological giant has tapped into a new frontier of technology. While we have evolved from the ooh’s and ahh’s of portable computers and digital music players, Nokia has once again upped the ante with what it hopes to be the future of cellphones – that which is free of power charging.

Powered by the innovation of collecting invisible, ambient radio waves everywhere – around, behind, beside, and above you – and turning them into usable power for your cellphone, Nokia relieves its users from charging their cellphones’ batteries after a certain period of time. Sooner than we might expect, we may no longer have to worry about forgetting our chargers at home when we go on vacations and out-of-town business meetings.

This young innovation, however, has its own drawback so far. The electromagnetic energy available in the environment will not provide your cellphone enough power to prevent it from going dead on a long phone call. But so far, what it can help you with is keeping your phone alive if it’s on standby mode for most of the time.

As with any other technological innovation, we have to start somewhere, don’t we? And Nokia has each and everyone of us up and running.

In three to five years, Nokia will have this phone available to mass consumers. When that time comes, what device or gadget would you then want to take advantage of this kind of technology?