For a company whose bread and butter is search, Google sure is working on a lot of operating systems… or two, rather. The company’s Android OS has taken the smartphone space by storm, and we’re starting to see it show up on tablet computers as well. And in the next few months Google is also expected to launch Chrome OS,…

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Google is a software company. Google’s best known product is probably its search engine, but over the last few years the company has also launched the Google Docs online office suite, acquired YouTube, and introduced the Android operating system for smartphones, among other things. And Google is working a new operating system for netbooks called Chrome OS, which will have…

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Google plans to launch its Chrome Operating System for netbooks later this year. The OS is built around a web browser, and the idea is that you’ll be able to boot your netbook and get online quickly to read news, watch videos, and interact with web-based applications for editing documents or pictures, or even video chat. We’ve known that much…

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When Google announced it was working on an operating system specifically targeted at netbooks earlier this week, the company said the source code would be available later this year and netbooks running the OS would hit the streets in the second half of 2010. But a funny thing happens when you open-source an operating system. People don’t necessarily wait the…

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