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Forbes.com: Technology News: Google's Invisibility Cloak
Boy Genius Report: Google working on a new mystery OS?
Mobilewhack.com: Googe Ready for a New OS?
Engadget: Is stripped user agent data pointing to a Google OS?
GigaOM Network: Operating System Grist for the Google Rumor Mill [OStatic]
Google's Invisibility Cloak
Forbes.com: Technology News —
... ) Mountain View, Calif., office is stripped clean of the usual identifying information that accompanies such traffic. That begs the question: What secret is it that Google doesn't want the rest of the Web to know? The finding, first reported in InternetNews.com , quickly sparked online chatter about a Windows challenger in the works. "I'd be shocked if Google wasn't developing its own operating system," says Vince Vizzacarro, Net Applications' executive vice president of marketing. "They clearly want to ride online services without using Microsoft." The Aliso Viejo, ...
Google working on a new mystery OS?
Boy Genius Report —
After dropping a pretty big bomb recently with news that Microsoft’s OS market share has dropped below 90% for the first time in 15 years, Net Applications is at it again. The well known market research firm is now causing a wave of speculation with regards to a possible new OS that Google may be working on behind a big curtain at HQ. Net Applications obtains much of its data by way of software sensors placed on over 40,000 websites, constantly returning (non-sensitive) information about each and every computer that visits the site. Recently, Net ...
Googe Ready for a New OS?
Mobilewhack.com —
... you have to arrange to have that happen, itâs not something weâve seen before with a proxy server. All I can tell you is thereâs a good percentage of the people at Google showing up [at Web pages] with their OS hidden. What it is exactly we’re going to find out in the future. But it’s likely that Google won’t stop at offering an operating system just for mobile devices. While Microsoft is making shirts it looks like Google has something else in mind. via internetnews Tags: Android , Google , Google , microsoft , ...
Is stripped user agent data pointing to a Google OS?
Engadget —
... Here we go again. It seems like just yesterday we heard the first whispers of a Google desktop OS, and products like Chrome stoke suspicions that the Mountain View-based company is setting itself up to invade the PC. Although Google insists that it's focusing on ...
Operating System Grist for the Google Rumor Mill [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... on the 40,000 or so websites where it gathers its traffic statistics. InternetNews is reporting that Net Applications made another interesting, if puzzling, discovery. ...
Operating System Grist for the Google Rumor Mill
OStatic blogs —
... on the 40,000 or so websites where it gathers its traffic statistics. InternetNews is reporting that Net Applications made another interesting, if puzzling, discovery. ...
Google OS rumor reignites after mystery surfers recorded
SlashGear —
... Rumors that Google is developing its own OS have once again been ignited, as traffic-measuring experts Net Applications revealed that one-third of visitors from Google computers are running computers that block recognition of their platform. According to Net Applications, this is not an incidental situation: Google would have to be purposefully choosing to mask the identity of their computers’ OS. ...
Is a Google Operating System Built on Android, Gears in the Cards?
Google Watch —
... Kudos to my former InternetNews colleague Andy Patrizio for ferreting out a fascinating new Google rumor we can tease each other with for weeks and months to come. ...
Google's secret operating system
The Open Road —
Reports have spread about a possible new operating system in use at Google, one that its employees have been using to browse the Web.
There are all sorts of theories about what Google is up to (From a port of Android to the desktop to a new SaaS infrastructure), but ...
The Google OS surfaced in March -- or did it?
Webware.com —
... When we first saw this string, another staffer here at CNET wrote a note, "It smells more like some coder type with a sense of humor than a truly secret project." The same CNET employee noted that Google has monkeyed with user agents before, as reported in a 2008 Internet News story, Does Google have a secret OS? ...



