Week in tech: Chrome OS, HTML5, China, Ubuntu 10.04a, and Firefox 3.6




It was a busy week as controversy continued to rage over the Google-China dust-up and Mozilla released a solid new version of Firefox. But first, Google.

Ars sat down with the engineering director of Google’s Chrome OS project to talk about the past, present, and future of the project. There’s a lot of good detail about the relationship between Chrome and Android, the genesis of Chrome OS, and much more.

The Google/China story has enough legs to qualify as a “centipede” at this point. After saying that it would no longer censor Chinese search results and that it was ready to pull out of China, Google also admitted to being the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack that went after more than 30 companies. The Chinese government responded harshly.

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