What operating system are you running right now? Within the next year, you could be running Google Chrome OS on a netbook or maybe even a full-size desktop. Google announced its own Chrome recently and it seems to be very promising.

Chrome OS is designed around the web and is meant for power-users of the Internet. They are also be open-source, free, lightweight, and first targeted towards netbooks. Google said its main goals with Chrome OS are speed, simplicity, and security.

They are going back to the basics and redesigning what an OS should be. So, users need not fear viruses, malware, and security updates. The overall idea is to make a fast operating system without constant errors and problems.

Well, good luck Google. Hopefully it goes well.

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 TO RIVAL GOOGLE DOCS
Reported by Tom Maxwell

Hi everyone, Tom Maxwell here of Tech Conclave.

The software giant Microsoft has recently announced that they’ll be releasing the latest version of their office suite, Microsoft Office 2010.

Along with the usual list of changes that comes with the big update, they also going to introduce an online office suite to rival Google Docs. This will be a cut-down version of the office suite installed on computers which will have essential applications such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Microsoft said that this suite will be a set of web applications designed to the highest standards that will bring delight to their customers and will not have quality sacrifices.

Chris Bryant, manager of Microsoft Office Product said, "We’re really raising the bar; the level of expectation for what Web-based applications can do and how they work into real complements for the apps you use on a desktop, using personal computers."

Microsoft said that the new services will be available early in the mid-2010.

STEVE BALLMER OPTIMISTIC WITH WINDOWS 7
Reported by John Raul Joven II

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is known to become hyper and crazy whenever he gets the chance to grab a microphone in any Microsoft event. This time, in a Microsoft partnership conference held at New Orleans, Steve Ballmer detailed and highlighted the company’s long-term, tenacious, and partner-centric way of doing business. He also expressed his optimism towards Windows 7.

Let’s have a look.

Steve Ballmer says,

"I just wanna end where I started. I thank you guys so much for all the business that we do together. I’m incredibly excited about the amazing opportunity. We have Windows 7, baby – I mean, Windows 7. This is a year, we can all, despite the economy, we can really get out there and pop up the volume so to speak. And I thank you in advance, I appreciated in advance, and I’ll die if we can’t relative to the economy really just – boom – make great things happen this year together, then we can’t do it in a year. I got confidence in what we got, but I really have confidence in what you can do with it."

CYBERBULLYING CASES ON THE RISE
Reported by Gerardo Velasco

WIth so many online issues such as child predators, hacking, identity theft, fraud and so on, another issue has rose from recent online suicide cases that takes place with cyberbullying.

Cyberbullying is the act of hurting others online by constantly saying bad thing about them.

A recent case with Lori Drew, an adult Missouri resident, was prosecuted for allegedly violating a federal computer fraud law by helping to create a plan to create a fake profile of a boy, "Josh," who sent messages to 13-year-old Megan Meier. The messages, flirtatious at first, eventually turned hurtful. Megan hanged herself after receiving a final message from "Josh" that the world would be a better place without her.

While this many issues like rapes, suicides, and more that have occurred mainly of online social networking, it raises some questions on just how safe the social networking sites are. A US District Court Judge has now pushed the idea into passing a federal law to address new crimes like cyberbullying. With this suicide that has occurred, it sparks a lot of controversy about Social networking. It was last heard on July 5, 2009, that a federal judge’s recent decision against Lori Drew in the "MySpace suicide" case had dismissed the charges.

It brings the questions about how she got away with this person’s suicide. If you know someone that’s undergoing the same issue and is being cyber bullied, I urge to visit these websites and assist in taking down cyberbullying.

Cyberbullying web resources:

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/
http://www.ncpc.org/topics/cyberbullying
http://www.wiredsafety.com/
http://www.stopbullyingnow.com/

TWITTER INVADES WORLD OF WARCRAFT
Reported by Sean Jonze

Who would have thought that you can use twitter on the PC game World of Warcraft? Well, guess what, you can.

They have smartly put together the highly social program "Twitter" with one of the most used games of all time:  World of Warcraft. This smart program is called TweetCraft, so you go along killing ghouls and goblins, as well as keeping in touch with your friends and the outside world.

So TweetCraft was released on 2nd July, and already has received positive reviews, so if your a fan of the franchise World of Warcraft, visit www.tweetcraft.codeplex.com and hit the download spot.

There’s another useful feature, if your fighting "The Prince of Darkness" and your friend’s just don’t believe you, you just use Twitpic, to screenshot your character in game play. And you can also auto tweet so you show your achievements in the game. So receive tweets in and out of the game.

So as Twitter is growing and growing, and you’ll be seeing these twitter clients get produced all the time, so you will start seeing them in other games and bigger names.

So to round things up, go and try out this new client, to support it and keep it alive, because might just die.

GEEK OF THE WEEK: CALI LEWIS OF GEEKBRIEF.TV
Reported by John Raul Joven II

Our geek of the week for episode 10 is a prominent geek in the Internet, Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV.

John: Of all the things that you’ve already done in your show (GeekBrief.TV), is there anything else that you haven’t done as a geek?

Cali: You know, I’ve never really written an application even though I love code. So, my goal is to write an iPhone app. Even then, after I do that, I know that my geek adventures will never end because there will always be something that I haven’t done and there will always be something that I wanna do.

John: What’s the most unforgettable moment that you’ve ever done in GeekBrief.TV?

Cali: The most memorable thing that we’ve done with GeekBrief is the "Digg the Code" video.  We stayed up all night to create it. When we woke up the next morning, we were on the front page of Digg.com. So much fun!

Cali: It’s good to be a geek!

Support GeekBrief.TV: http://www.geekbrief.tv

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Congratulations to Tech Conclave Tech Correspondents and Tech Conclave fans, we have reached the tenth, milestone episode of Tech Conclave. Also I want to thank Cali Lewis for participating this show as well as to Brad of Tech Webcast for this wonderful microphone.

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