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cer may be the first manufacturer out of the gate with a Google Chrome OS netbook in the second half of next year, according to the latest Internet rumors. JT Wang, the computer manufacturer’s chairman recently told DigiTimes that he was confident his company would be “the first vendor to launch [a] Chrome-based netbook” by [...]

Shares of GPS device makers Garmin and TomTom plummeted today through a combination of their quarterly results and the launch of Google Maps Navigation. Following both low guidance for Garmin’s next quarter as well as poor results from TomTom, shares for the two fell 16.4 percent and 20.8 percent respectively and remained low through the [...]

Google has told publishers that it will start selling eBooks by the end of the year, according to newspaper reports. The search giant is preparing to take on the likes of Amazon by selling eBooks directly to consumers, the New York Times reports.

Google already allows people to search for and read extracts from books, via [...]

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