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...mail's popularity among students. Eric Weil, managing partner for Student Monitor, a national college-focused market research firm, says the average college student has two or three personal e-mail addresses, and Gmail's popularity among students has doubled over the past two years. (Read "Google's Chrome: Taking Aim at Microsoft - and the iPhone...
...Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple's core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric's effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest," Steve Jobs said in a written statement on Aug. 3. "Therefore, we have mutually decided that now is the right time for Eric to resign his position on Apple's board." That's right: Schmidt was not fired; he quit...
...Google had to step up its game. Android phones weren't enough. Google needed its own operating system that would not only power the new generation of smartbooks and other mobile Internet devices but also keep them on the wide-open Google Web. That's why it announced the Chrome operating system last month. (I think the common wisdom - that this was a move aimed mainly at the king of operating systems, Microsoft - is flat-out wrong. Getting into mobile operating systems is a defensive move for Google, not an offensive one.) (Watch TIME's video about the Palm...
...Microsoft's renewed commitment to search is only the latest example of Google and Microsoft invading each other's territory. Shortly after Bing's debut, Google announced a new operating system called Chrome, meant to take a bite out of Microsoft's Windows franchise. The Chrome OS, scheduled to be rolled out in the fall, is designed to run on netbooks, the small, inexpensive laptops that have surged in popularity. By tying the Chrome OS to popular applications like Gmail, Google Chat and Picassa, Google hopes to give Microsoft a run for its money in the operating-system market, just...