Isn't IBTimes widely regarded as one of the slimiest sites around. Notice that, if you try to stop the auto play video it will wait a minute or two and then auto resume.

This idea that you can 'mine' for bitcoins is what makes me not take it seriously. It seems so arbitrary and ridiculous.

In the future, if they want to issue more bitcoin, I hope they will instead allow people to exchange other currencies for bitcoin, and setup a foundation (or something like that) which will use the currency that is raised to further the interests of the bitcoin ecosystem.

Actually, I think Google's Go language in the same terms as Rust.

NaCL and Dart do have some value in relation to Google's goal of moving the Web forward. If they really want the Web to compete with desktop OS's then javascript really is lacking.

Building a next-gen browser engine sounds like exactly what 'mozilla labs' should be doing.

On the other hand, creating a new language in order to do it, sounds like Engineers whacking off.

Comparing Google's Chromebooks to Reader is silly.

For one thing, Chrome and Chromebooks are central to Google's future.

And for all the fuss about Reader (i'm a heavy user myself) switching away from Reader has been dead simple since it is just a viewer based around a standard protocol. Google turfing it was annoying at most, and no indication that they will kill off their core initiatives.

I look forward to seeing Amazon and Google battle each other in providing Linux infrastructure. I know there are many excellent small providers, but no one has really come close to Amazon so far.

I can't believe anyone would mod your post up - the original was clearly sarcastic.

The thing that was wrong about that original post is the Eric Schmidt hasn't been the CEO of Google for a couple of years.

But most of those who wish to record you will be wearing invisible cameras - not Glass. Are you going to search everyone?

"ubiquitous cameras everywhere recording everything at all times" is already happening and it has nothing to do with Google Glasses.

If you care about your privacy, Glass is the least of your concerns - there are already many ways to record everything secretly. And, if you want to invade people's privacy like this, Glass is the last thing you should use since it is so conspicuous.

Britain already went through this debate as they installed their ubiquitous CCVC network. Privacy lost.

These days, if a big patent holder in a related field (e.g. MPEG-LA) says they are going to gather all their patents and attack you, then they can do serious damage regardless of what any experts might say about actual infringement.

A company deciding to license patents that it believes it hasn't infringed it pretty common-place unfortunately.

TFA indicates that MS was only holding back on WebRTC (which uses VP8) because of patent concerns, so they may now move forward on it.

That seems to defy history. MS drags its feet and tries to undercut every new web tech it can. That's just MS - their strength is the desktop and they see the web and the Internet in general as a threat.

I can well believe that MS said that patents were the reason, but making random excuses for why they won't support a web tech - and then creating new ones as necessary - is just how MS operates when it comes to the web and open standards.

Every e-mail company 'reads' your e-mail. They must, in order to do spam detection. The difference is that MS has temporarily stopped using that info for targetted ads in their e-mail product. They still do it (target ads based on analysis of your data) in other properties.

If we fall for their trick of equating online activities with physical activities, and equating algorithmic analysis with a human reading, then we could convict every internet company right now.

But that's just Oracle - and always has been Oracle. Being aggressive and obnoxious hasn't hurt them before (check their stock price).

Exactly. It's a breath of fresh air to see an announcement like this and discover that it isn't about locking me into their ecosystem.

Hopefully Google (the only other player with a web app store - that I know of) will implement support for that 'receipt protocol'.

>Yep, pretty much. I can't be the only one who remembers Google Gears, either, and offline gmail for firefox. But that got tossed over when Google decided to implement their own browser.

Gears worked with Chrome too. They killed it in favour of standard HTML5 functionality (though they killed it too soon - the HMTL5 stuff wasn't ready).

> That still doesn't tell us if it has the features needed to run this software. There have been things which ran on the chromebook which didn't run in chrome in the past.

Yes, such as the photo editor and the file manager. But the articles about this new 'edition' of QuickOffice say that it uses NaCl and NaCl is the same on Chrome and Chrome OS.

If there is currently some small dependency on Chrome OS itself, then surely they are working hard to eliminate that - not much point in building this new QuickOffice and have it limited to the tiny # of ChromeOS users, when it could be made available to every Chrome user.