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Google has just announced an Operating System, Chrome OS,  seperate from Android being developed specifically for netbooks and “people that spend their time on the web”.  One of the cool things about it is that apps are developed for Chrome OS as if they were web apps.  The advantage to that is that they are automatically usable on the web, so not only Chrome OS users can use them, but anyone with a standards compiant browser (i.e., almost everyone in the world with an internet connection).

Read up more about it here.

So Google has gone a different, albeit cool, way of unlocking your phone.  Rather than the standard 4-digit pin that most systems have, Google has designed a type of symbol recognition system that will let you draw on screen by playing connect the dots.

Now, if you only use 4 dots, the system is less secure than using a pin, but past 4 dots, it has the potential (depending on a few variables that my friends and I argued about [see below for transcript]) to be much more secure.  Of course, that is due the the increased amount of digits, or in this case gestures, rather than the system itself being more secure.

Found via: TechCrunch

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