Despite arguing vehementally that every day the EC didn't make a ruling on its acquistion of Sun, Oracle has asked for and been granted a six day extension to its next hearing with EU authorities

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has said that Android and Chrome will likely converge over time into a single operating system

European CIO of GE has said that open source is only useful for internal "playground" uses, despite other parts of GE having deployed Linux for healthcare platforms

Microsoft issued an official response to news of Google releasing its Chrome Operating System to open source for developers

IDC analyst Al Hilwa said Chrome Operating system will take some hard selling by Google and its partners to get on netbooks

The history of Windows security has shown that desktop operating systems are vulnerable, but there are even more potential attack strategies for an online OS. Google needs to ensure that Chrome's defenses are prepared

After months of extravagant claims, Google has given more detail on why its new operating system is more secure than the competition

Google has released the Chrome operating system to open source for developers, but said end users would not be able to use it until late 2010.

Mozilla is aiming to improve the speed, stability, and security with the new beta of its open source Firefox browser

European authorities want to see a level playing field for open source but have expressed concerns about the security of the software