Just as companies were starting to get serious about installing Android, a mobile Linux OS, on netbooks, Google announces Chrome, a netbook Linux OS. The relationship between the two OSes is already getting tense, or at the very least, awkward.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now admitting that it took him quite a while to warm to the idea of Chrome the browser, even longer to come to terms with the possibility of Chrome the OS, and in both cases only after Larry Page Sergey Brin literally nerded him into submission:

I just gave up, but there is no question I am hugely supportive of Chrome and Chrome OS. They are game-changers. They change the way you think about your computer.

Read the rest at : Gizmodo

As the convergence of mobile form factors continues, it’s perhaps not surprising to see that someone has gone out and tried a mobile phone operating system on a mini-note. Here is a video of a HP Mini 2133 running Android, Google’s first attempt at a mobile operating system.

Via Howtobemobile.com