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!

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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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Twitter! Its an everyday social networking site we use, or at least some of us do. While many of us thought that twitter was a hit on the Internet, allowing users to share every little detail of themselves or an event, twitter hasn’t been best at keeping its users online.

With so many competitions such as MySpace and Facebook, will twitter really survive with its only feature being broadcasting status updates and messaging back and forth?

Twitter’s user loyalty problem will have a great impact in its feature success… or failure. With 60% of Twitter’s users not returning until the following month to use Twitter’s service, Twitter is lagging behind Facebook and MySpace.

Now with Facebook also opening its stream to API developers, it now allows any developer to create new applications incorporating the real-time stream of Facebook. With so many Twitter applications using Twitter API stream created for desktop and mobile applications, Facebook has fired back allowing its API stream to be used by any developer, this means new competition for Twitter.

What do you say about Twitter’s future? Does it stand against today’s social networking giants Facebook or MySpace? We will have to wait and see who takes advantage of Facebook’s new API stream and how Twitter will respond back. Until then, Twitter remains head to head with Facebook.

MICROSOFT INTEGRATES WINDOWS XP ON WINDOWS 7
Reported by John Raul Joven II

Good news to all Windows XP advocates and all Windows users who refused to jump into Vista, Microsoft just announced one of the secret technologies embedded with its Windows 7: the next major Microsoft operating system will integrate Windows XP.

Windows XP remained popular up to these days because of its notable speed and compatibility — factors both worldwide businesses and consumers want that Microsoft failed to deliver when it launched Windows Vista.

Dubbed as XPM or XP Mode, Microsoft claims that the feature provides near-perfect compatibility of Windows XP applications in Windows 7. Considering that Windows 7’s system requirements are on par with Windows Vista, enabling the XPM however will require a more powerful machine with at least 2 GB of RAM.

Having built on same platform as Microsoft’s Virtual PC 7 product, XPM will take advantage of virtualization
technologies in-built from CPUs such as the Intel VT-x for recent Intel CPUs and AMD-V for AMD processors.

Through XPM, users will be able to install and launch Windows XP applications on Windows 7 desktop, and can even run alongside the same application of Windows 7 version, without affecting the core operating system. This means the inclusion of the XPM feature on Windows 7 will not undermine its speed, stability and security. Microsoft will include a full Windows XP SP3 license with every legal copy of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate for use with XPM.

A release candidate version of Windows 7 is expected to be available to the general public for download
on May 5th. The RC version means that Microsoft is now on the final stages of completing the operating system which will succeed the unpopular Window Vista.

NETBOOKS DON’T DESERVE APPLE LOGO
Reported by Richard Crake

I’m here today to talk about the Apple netbook – or at least the Apple netbook rumor. I reckon any speculations on the Internet for Apple will come out with a netbook laptop.

Many people speculates this as the market for netbooks as definitely there as there have been reports stating that netbooks have outsold iPhones.

Last time I checked over 10 million iPhones sold has a definite market for this device.

However, when interviewed Tim Cook, one of the main people of Apple, said quote, "All I see wrong with these product is cramped keyboards, cramped displays. Until we are ready to bring innovation to this industry we can offer nothing as of yet."

So, will they be making a netbook? There have been reports that Apple had been ordering lots and lots of flash memory and 10-inch touch screens, so if they’re gonna bring out something that match the cost of video players or bring out a good touch tablet device or something along those lines, we just have to wait and see. All I’m saying is watch this space.

FIND BARGAIN NETBOOKS AT EBAY
Reported by Tom Maxwell

Hi, everyone. Tom Maxwell here from Tech Conclave giving you a top tip. What I have here is an Asus Eee PC. This is the very first edition, the 701.

Although it’s a small size, this computer can still do, you know, deal a lot of tasks. For example, it can do word processing, Internet browsing, you can play games on it, you can watch TV, you can even use it as a security camera with its built-in webcam. I got my Eee PC for just 75 pounds – it’s a bargain compared to the 225 pounds they were a year ago.

Now, the easiest way to do this is by keeping a close eye on eBay.  Let me show you how to do this the easy way.

Okay, so now we have eBay loaded up, let’s type in "Eee PC." On the left hand side, you want to click on the Laptop section. This will get rid of all other categories that will come up with the search. Click the Buy It Now only tab. Now that’s loaded,  on the Sort By Selection, select Newly Listed only, this will show up the newly listed items.

Now you can see the bargains before the majority of other users allowing you to grab those bargains.

GEEK OF THE WEEK: NEIL PERRIN OF GEEKWITHGLASSES.NET
Reported by Beau Sinclair

Hello this is Beau here for Tech Conclave Geek of the Week.

This week’s geek is Neil Perrin. I believe that’s right. GeekwithGlasses.net, go and check him out.

Beau: Neil, what do you do and what skills that you have as a geek?

Neil: I am a long-time technical gadget user. I’ve been working  with computers since I was about ten years old so we are looking at about 24 to 25 years that I have been involved with the computer industry and technology and gadgets in general.

I work professionally in the DC area as a contractor and do computer work for the government, government and such. And I have a passion to all things computer-related, technical-related and gadget-related. I’m a gadget guy. I decided I wanted to go ahead and share my knowledge with the masses.

 Beau: Oh cool, awesome. This has been Beau Sinclair from Bright, Australia.

Click here to learn more about Neil and his live tech show, Geek With Glasses.

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