Google Announces Chrome OS Hardware Partners

Google has released names of nine of its initial partners it has enlisted to develop and market its Chrome operating system to the masses as early as the second half of 2010. Interestingly none of the listed names are mobile phone operators. Acer, Asus, Toshiba, HP and Lenovo - more than half of the partners - are computer manufacturers. Dell is the one missing Tier-1 laptop.desktop manufacturer from the list and told PC Pro that it "constantly assesses new technologies...