Google plans Chrome tablet

Google has revealed intentions to take on Apple's iPad, as the search engine giant has started working on a Chrome tablet concept, reports Telegraph.co.uk.

Google is in talks with HTC about making a touchscreen tablet computer. HTC is the handset manufacturer behind the Google-branded Nexus One phone.

Google's Chromium site shows a video of the device running a Chrome operating system where users can write e-mails and browse the Internet simultaneously.

Citrix and Open Kernal Labs have developed a wireless technology solution that turns smartphones into thin clients, states Visage Mobile.

Citrix vice-president of community and solutions development, Chris Fleck, says Citrix is extending its enterprise virtualisation platform to mobile devices.

When users work from their local client device, all of their applications and data are kept and run centrally within the data centre. This enables users to access their desktops on any device; such as a traditional desktop computer, laptop, thin client, or smartphone.

The White House director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has warned that the US is severely under the threat of greater cyber attacks, says CNET News.

Blair says convergence of voice, video, and data over a common network creates new opportunities for cyber attacks that could affect the country's infrastructure.

Blair adds that the ability to steal an individual's data through e-mails, search engines, social networks, and geo-tagging, increases the risk that personal information and privacy can be exploited.