Google Chrome Operating System (OS), the first operating system from Google, will be out in a year. Google announced this at a press meet today.

Google Image Swirl released on Google Labs today, the latest search adventure by the search giant. Google Image Swirl is a modification of Google Image Search, which is running for the last eight years.

BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) is said to be down in several parts of the globe, the second BlackBerry data outage in three months. BlackBerry fan sites and support forums are littered with complaints from BlackBerry users from across the world that they are unable to use data services on their BlackBerrys.

AMD Cray XT5 'Jaguar' has been named the fastest supercomputer at the Top 500 chip-speed measuring contest. The Cray XT5 Jaguar measured a speed 1.759 petaflops per second from its 224,162 cores.

Galactic Suite Space Resort, a company based in Barcelona, Spain, says that it is set to open the first hotel in space in 2012.

The largest passenger ship in the world, the Oasis of the Seas, has set sail.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, the first Android phone from Sony Ericsson has been launched. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 will run Android 1.6, though it is expected that later, an Android 2.0 Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 will follow. Sony Ericsson has not announced the price of the latest Android offering, the XPERIA X10.

Google Maps for mobile phones has acquired turn-by-turn voice directions, thanks to the new application being launched for Android platform today.

Newspapers might find Apple's upcoming tablet 'Slate' or Amazn's Kindle a new distribution medium

Microsoft Windows 7, the latest version of Windows operating system, was launched in India today. Windows 7 comes with several new features like Aero, Shake, Peek, Snap, Jump Lists and a redesigned Windows Taskbar. Windows 7 users can make use of new features such as HomeGroup, Play To, Windows Live Movie Maker and Remote Media Streaming.