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5:05 PM ET, July 8, 2009

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The Official Google Blog:
Introducing the Google Chrome OS  —  It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser.  Already, over 30 million people use it regularly.  We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news …
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John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Google's Chrome OS: what it means, why it matters  —  Well, that didn't take long.  Last night, we reported that sources inside and outside Google were suggesting that the company would announce a Chrome-centered OS within a matter of days.  It turned out to be a matter of hours.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Eleven Questions About Google's Chrome OS  —  Here's one of those breaking stories that's stunning at first-until you think about it, whereupon it feels like it was always inevitable.  Google announced tonight that it's working on an operating system for PCs, turning a hypothetical scenario that's been around for years into reality.
Discussion: VentureBeat and Financial Times
Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft set to respond to Google OS next Monday?  —  Blogger Robert Scoble has posted a message on his FriendFeed account, hinting at a Microsoft announcement next Monday, related to Google's OS.  —  In the posting, Scoble notes “why did Google announce Chrome OS this week?
Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise:
Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses?  —  Reading the commentary from the likes of TechCrunch, Mashable, The Guardian and even our own esteemed Sam Diaz on the pre-launch (you've got another YEAR to wait) you'd think the Google ChromeOS was the closest thing to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Renai LeMay / ZDNET.com.au:
No thanks Google, we've got Ubuntu  —  commentary Google's revelation today that it will create its own operating system will bring just one reaction from operating system enthusiasts worldwide.  —  “Not another Linux distribution,” they'll cry.  —  They'll say this because if there is one problem …
Discussion: CNET News and InformationWeek
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It's Made of Chrome.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:   Will Google's Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010?
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Let's all take a deep breath and get some perspective
Discussion: CNET News
David Coursey / LinuxWorld.com:
Five Reasons Google Chrome OS Will Fail
Discussion: PC World
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:   Chrome OS, Huh? Will It Be Based on a Google Analytics Kernel?
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:   Dilettante Google Needs To Get Serious About Chrome OS Or It Will Flop
Washington Post:
North Korea Suspected in Cyberattack  —  South Korea's intelligence agency suspects that North Korea may have been behind an Internet attack that on Tuesday and Wednesday targeted government Web sites in South Korea and the United States, lawmakers in Seoul told Yonhap news service.
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Washington Post, White House, FAA, DoD, Others, Targeted in Online Attack  —  Washingtonpost.com and Security Fix readers may have noticed that our site was a bit slow and occasionally unreachable today.  Turns out, the site has been under attack by about 60,000 compromised PCs around the globe for several hours now.
Discussion: OSNews, BBC and Softpedia News
Computerworld:
Updated MyDoom responsible for DDOS attacks, says AhnLab
Mary Kathleen Flynn / Dealscape:
David Hornik on the VC math problem  —  David Hornik — a partner at August Capital Management LLC, which boasts raising the year's biggest venture capital fund with its $650 million balanced-stage fund — weighs in on the challenges facing the VC industry, including what Union Square Ventures …
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Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
U.S. VC fund-raising plunges 63 percent, hitting six-year low
Keenan Skelly / Venture Capital Dispatch:   Venture Capital Fund-Raising Plunges In First Half
Kim Hart / Washington Post:   Venture Capitalists, Start-Ups at Odds Over Who Should Get Funds
Bloomberg:
Apple Disclosures on Jobs's Health Said to Remain Subject of SEC Review  —  Apple Inc.'s disclosures about Steve Jobs's health remain under scrutiny by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators over how his condition went from “relatively simple” to “more complex” in nine days, said a person familiar with the matter.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Windows boss named president as Microsoft reshuffles execs  —  Steven Sinofsky, the no-nonsense Microsoft executive credited with bringing new discipline to Windows engineering, will be named the company's newest divisional president today, according to multiple sources.
Reuters:
News Corp won't buy Twitter, won't sell MySpace  —  SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) - News Corp is not interested in buying popular microblogging site Twitter and will not sell its struggling social network MySpace, said the media conglomerate's chief executive, Rupert Murdoch.
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Julia Angwin / Digits:
Sun Valley: Will Twitter CEO Be This Year's Star?
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Soon you'll be able to buy any top-level domain you want: .yourname, .america, .whatever.  Don't do it.  —  In 1996, Microsoft bought the domain Slate.com from a guy named John Slate.  Back in the early days of the Web, it paid to have a snazzy dot-com name to call your own.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
New images of Sony Ericsson Rachael and Kiki surface along with a Rachael UI video  —  Heads up SE fans!  A tipster just dropped us a lead on some new shots (and a video) of the mouth watering Sony Ericsson Rachael and the plant watering Sony Ericsson Kiki — which means were dropping them on you.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Why Hulu Succeeded As Other Video Sites Failed  —  Many people watch free, advertising-supported episodes of shows on sites like Hulu.  —  Why were so many people in the technology world wrong about Hulu?  It was an idea that seemed like a relic of the worst excesses of the dot-com era …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Analyst: iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre gang up on BlackBerry sales  —  Research in Motion's BlackBerry sales had a rough June at AT&T and Sprint as those wireless carriers talked up the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre, respectively.  —  Those findings come courtesy of Piper Jaffray's Michael Walkley.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Amazon's Kindle 2 gets a $60 price cut, now at $299  —  Nearly five months to the day after Amazon introduced its Kindle 2 e-reader, the company has decided to hack a full $60 off of the price tag in order to offer it to US consumers for $299.  Sneaking under that magical $300 mark could allow …
 
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