Related stories Why an Apple Valve tie-up makes a lot of sense Tim Cook voted world's best CEO Foxconn working conditions audit reveals 'serious concerns' Google's released so many new things this week you'd probably needa special Google Map to find them all: there was new hardware, newsoftware, more new hardware, a bit more hardware and a new onlineservice. The biggest announcement was the new version of Chrome OS, Google'salternative operating system. As Patrick Goss reports, it's a bold new vision with some room for improvement, and the new Chrome-running, MacMini-esque Chromebox PC "could carve itself a nice little niche in the desktop market."There are new Chromebook laptops from Samsung and Acer too, andGoogle promises more from other firms too . The most obvious new thing in Chrome OS is a desktop, which Gary Marshall reckons "is worth a titter at the very least... what we've ended up withlooks considerably less radical than Microsoft's Metro interfacefor Windows 8 ". For Marshall, Chrome is an OS designed for "a big but fairly dullmarket: the locked-down boxes you'll find in hotel internet suites,on check-in desks and in giant corporations' offices". Forconsumers "it appears to be the Google+ of operating systems, theanswer to a question somebody else has already answered". Chrome OS and Android to merge One Chrome device you won't see is a tablet, because Chrome and Android will ultimately merge . "We are not working on a Chrome OS tablet," Google says. Google certainly is working on an Android tablet, though: the Nexus7, which has shown up online and appears to be made by Asus. It's a quad-core, seven-inch jobthat should run Android 4.1, and we're expecting to hear much moreabout it at next month's Google I/O event, along with details ofGoogle Glasses, the augmented reality eyewear that Sergey Brinhints will be released next year . Google is mainly an online services company, of course, and itslatest wheeze is Google+ Local , a location-based section of its social network that will competewith the likes of Yelp, Urban Spoon and even "a significant chunkof TripAdvisor". It's part of Google's ongoing process ofintegrating everything with everything else, so, for example, itintegrates Google+, Google Maps, the Google-owned Zagat restaurantguide, Circles, Hangouts and businesses' Google+ pages. Apple is lurking With WWDC 2012 just over a week away we're about to enter the annual Apple newsfrenzy, and it kicked off early this week when CEO Tim Cook took tothe stage at the AllThingsD conference to talk about Apple's past, present and future. TV is an "area of intense interest", Cook said, all but confirmingthat Apple is working on a TV; at the very least we reckon the WWDC event will unveil iOS-style apps for the existing Apple TV device. Cook also slammed hybridtablet/laptop devices and gave Microsoft's tablet plans a goodkick, suggesting that combining PC and tablet was like combining atoaster and a fridge. Gary Marshall felt that the interview showed Cook stepping out from the late Steve Jobs' shadow . "In among the assertions of Apple's general awesomeness, therewas some real substance to the interview," he says, noting thatCook promised a more open Apple (but not about future products) andimproved corporate responsibility, suggested that the ill-fatedPing social network is on borrowed time and strongly hinted atimminent Facebook integration. I'm an expert responsible for promoting a good online shopping platform China Hotel Lock System, it contains numerous high-quality items such as China Hotel Lock System, for more information please visit our website! I am an expert from rf-cardlock.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China Hotel Lock System , China IC Card Lock, IC Card Lock,and more.
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