Chip giant Intel told TG Daily today that it was in cahoots with Google on the Chrome OS project. A representative confirmed this to us this morning.

Mozilla is adding support for multiprocess browsing to Firefox. The feature, which is already found in Google Chrome, will improve the stability and security of Mozilla’s browser. Ars takes a look at the current status of the implementation and at an early demo that shows a page rendering in a separate process.

Once you made the decision that upgrading to Windows 7 is worth it for you, or buy a new PC that’s upgrade eligible, do you know exactly what you’re getting? Can I upgrade from Windows XP? Do I need to buy the same product edition when upgrading? Can I go from 32 bit to 64 bit? These are just a few of the many questions we seek to answer

we take a look at the history of early computer software, from the first character-based interfaces to the last pre-32-bit OSes. We also spotlight the notable programs that ran on these various platforms, including the first productivity, design, and gaming applications.

Within the laboratories of Google’s Mountain View campus, computer science wizards are busy brewing up innovative services that will enhance your Google experience. There are plenty of functional Google Lab projects still in public beta; we pick nine of our favorites that you absolutely must try out.

The VideoLAN project is pleased to announce the release of the first version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.0. This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions.

The HTML 5 video element has the potential to liberate streaming Internet video from plugin prison, but a debate over which codec to define in the standard is threatening to derail the effort. Ars takes a close look at the HTML 5 codec controversy and examines the relative strengths and weaknesses of H.264 and Ogg Theora.

There are many applications that can help you work faster and efficiently. Though, not many applications come cheap. For this post we tried to digg deep to find the best selection of free and open source mac applications that will help you be a more efficient designer.

It works like this. You first install the free TweetMyPC utility on any Windows PC and associate your Twitter account. The app will silently monitor your Twitter stream every minute for any desktop commands and if it finds one, will act upon it immediately.

A fire at downtown Seattle’s Fisher Plaza has interrupted service at some top Web sites, including Microsoft’s Bing Travel and Authorize.net.