Google Chrome

Well there's been a few announcements today from Google, particularly about their Chrome operating system. Today Google has unveiled the first Chrome notebook: the wonderfully named Cr-48. This 12" notebook will be distributed purely for a public testing of Chrome and in terms of looks and hardware isnt anything particularly special.

[Engadget]

The first 'proper' laptops that will run Chrome can be expected mid 2011.

In addition the Chrome Web Store has been showcased, featuring general UI improvements, and some of the web apps are already available:  NPR, The New York Times, Amazon Windowshop.

Nexus S announced

Google has announced that the second Nexus phone, known as the Nexus S, will be manufactured by Samsung and will be the first phone to use the Anroid 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS.

The Nexus S has a 4" Super AMOLED screen, a 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor and 16GB of flash memory.

We'll have to wait till the 16th in the US and the 20th in the UK to see whether its a real match for other smartphones but on paper it certainly looks good.

More details here.