Google announces a new OS called Google Chrome OS. So, what exactly is Google Chrome OS? Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second [...]

Google announced Chrome, its new Web browser project, via a 38-page comic book. According to the Chrome comic, drawn by acclaimed comic artist and writer Scott McCloud, the upcoming opensource browser is based on the opensource rendering engine WebKit, the very same engine used by Apple’s own Safari browser and Google’s own Android mobile-phone operating [...]