Chrome OS notebooks from Acer and Samsung are expected to launch next month at $349 and $429, respectively. The fact that you can get a more powerful netbook with Windows 7 pre-installed for roughly the same price, or even less, is already putting some people off. But that doesn't mean you should disregard Google's operating system without so much as giving it a try -- ...
Google Plus begins climb up steep social mountainGoogle Plus hopes to take on popular social services like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr and LinkedIn.By now, you've probably heard about Google's new Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr-killing social service, Google Plus. But trying to figure out where the new network fits into your online life - if it does at all - might leave you a bit … nonplussed.Do ...