Google is holding a conference in San Francisco at 1:30 ET, where it's expected to take the wraps off the long-awaited Chrome OS and perhaps show the first netbooks running Chrome.
Chrome is different from Android, as Google's Andy Rubin explained last night, in that it's totally about the Web and making Web applications run more efficiently. Android is more of a general-purpose OS for mobile devices, focused on all sorts of apps.
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10:30: Vice president of product management Sudar Pichai is taking the stage. When they launched the Chrome browser, they almost thought of it as an OS. Focus on speed, simplicity, and security.
10:33: Chrome has 120 million active daily users. That's 300% growth since January. Why? Biggest reason is speed.
10:35: Brian Rakowski is taking the stage to do a demo of the Chrome browser's speed, using Google Instant in the Chrome "omnibox" (the address bar/search pane at the top). So far, no news...just a cheerleading session for a 2-year-old browser. So where's the OS? Where are the netbooks?
10:38: Now he's demoing Chrome's super-fast PDF reader using the Chrome comic book. It is pretty slick--a 20 page PDF shows up immediately. The 1,990 page PDF of the health care reform bill? Also shows up immediately. That's far better than PDF on Firefox/Windows.
10:39: Note: the Chrome demo is on Windows 7.
10:40: Now he's showing a GPU-powered demo of interactive fish using WebGL, a part of the HTML5 spec. This is very similar to the HTML5 demos that Microsoft has been showing for Internet Explorer 9. Only this demo has sharks shooting lasers out of their eyes!
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See Also:
- Andy Rubin Says Android Is Profitable, Shows Off Nexus S
- Computers Running Google's Chrome OS Are Finally On The Way
- The First Chrome Tablet Is Here: The iPad
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