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Google Launches the Google Chrome OS

Just when you thought Google couldn't be more integrated into your life... comes the news that they have just launched the Google Chrome OS. This does not come as much of a surprise following the launch of Chrome a good 9 months ago.

So what does this mean?
Well in effect the Chrome OS will now allow us to use the Web as the operating system itself, putting a much greater significance on Cloud Computing and all the apps sitting on the cloud.

It also, spells the beginning of the end for Microsoft applications as more and more people opt for lightweight hardware with internet access.

It also means that you, and I and a lot of the rest of the world, will be Google slaves!

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Sakhr moves into Mobile Speech Translation...

I was quite surprised and very interested to read this post by TechCrunch... http://bit.ly/13xaKb.

From a technical perspective this is quite a development in the world of voice recognition and marries it well with translation. It's actually a very cool set up that potentially takes us one step closer to a more networked world.

But on a more sinister and cynical level its interesting that Sakhr has some of the US Government Departments as clientele... this suggests that wire-tapping in the Middle East or of Arabs in the US will take on new meaning (literally)...

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Mobile Today... what tomorrow?

I attended this cool presentation at BarCamp Sydney (#bcs5), last Saturday and thought it would be worth sharing...

<div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_1511532"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/michaelharriescitrix/today-mobile-internet-tomorrow-what?type=powerpoint" title="Today: Mobile Internet, Tomorrow: What?">Today: Mobile Internet, Tomorrow: What?</a></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/michaelharriescitrix">Michael Harries</a>.</div></div>

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