Rumored for years, finally it’s out: Google Chrome OS the new computer operating system from Google. According to their blog:
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 [...]

Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.
Source: Sun Official Release

I found this new web-based software that closely related to MS Paint, Photoshop and Illustrator. Sumo Paint beta brings illustration tools to the web. It offers selection tools, gradients, paint bucket, layers and blending modes, and some filters. The brushes tool offers options to control size, opacity, scatter, random rotate and gravity, considerably more than [...]

Mozilla has released an alpha version of its mobile browser called Fennec. The browser will be available this coming Friday at Mozilla’s download section. Fennec features tabbed browsing and bookmarks with touchscreen support. It also supports geo-location also introduced into Firefox. The alpha release is currently available for OS2008 (Maemo) software platforms for Nokia N810 [...]

Google set to introduce its own Web browser called Google Chrome. This new web browser is designed to more quickly handle video-rich programs and designed originally to handle text and graphics. They said Google Chrome promises to load pages faster and more securely, but it also includes a new engine for loading interactive JavaScript code, [...]