Business / Technology

Today’s column is an extended take on Google’s CR-48 preview of its Chrome operating system: It was thrilling to fire up Google’s ultra groovy CR-48 laptop running the company’s new Chrome operating system. The Applesque machine was like an early Christmas present from Silicon Valley Santa. Inside the eco-friendly cardboard package was technology that promised to…

First impressions of the Google CR-48 laptop running Google’s Chrome operating system will be posted here shortly. First I’ve got to get it connected to a wireless network — Wi-Fi or Verizon Wireless — and finish the setup process. There’s no Ethernet jack and it’s not connecting to Verizon’s wireless network from inside the…

Google’s sharing more details of its planned Chrome operating system – and the early code as well, through the Chromium open source project it announced this morning. The company said its OS will be ready for consumers a year from now and invited developers to help finish the project. Google’s calling it a “fundamentally different model…

Google is apparently trying to steal some thunder from Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference this week by releasing more details of its Chrome operating system. So far the Chrome OS has been mostly FUD since it was announced in July but that may change at a Thursday press event where the company is promising demos. But…

From an interview Google co-founder Larry Page and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt gave the Wall Street Journal, at the summer camp for tycoons that Allen & Co. is holding in Sun Valley this week: Mr. Page described the Chrome operating system as a kind of anti-operating system — one that is basically indistinguishable from a…

Google is not officially saying much about Chrome OS beyond a Tuesday evening blog post, announcing that the company is indeed developing a computer operating system. But a very knowledgeable “industry source” answered a few questions about a project that on its surface appears to be a significant challenge to Microsoft, Apple and the PC…