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  • Gadgets of days gone by: HP DeskJet 500

    Gadgets of days gone by: HP DeskJet 500

    This week at CrunchGear, we’re looking back at some of our favorite gadgets from the not-so-distant past — old phones, computers, media players, toys… those devices that still stand out in our memories despite their obsolescence. Feel free to contribute some of your own nostalgia. The Hewlett Packard DeskJet 500 was the first printer I bought [...]

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  • A rebuttal, in which Chrome OS is praised, and no disparaging remarks are made

    A rebuttal, in which Chrome OS is praised, and no disparaging remarks are made

    google-chromeJohn pooh poohs Google Chrome OS, just like he pooh poohed the Palm Pre. John's a smart guy, and has some good insights into the technology world. But on the issue of Google Chrome OS, I think he's wrong. Google isn't in the operating system market, it's in the software services market. The easier Google can make it to get to their hosted applications, the more customers they'll have. To paraphrase Larry Ellison's famous quote, "the web is the operating system".

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