It’s a buyer’s market for web developers right now. You can geta good development company to do your site very reasonably. Thehard part is figuring out which are the good companies. One good way to choose a developer is to ask for arecommendation from someone whose site you admire. It doesn’thave to be someone you know in real life. Most people areflattered to get an email telling them how much you like theirsite and would they please give you the name of the developer. Alternatively, there are online directories that list webdesigners and programmers. Some of these directory sites…

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In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser.
The software, called the Google Chrome Operating System, is initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable computers known as netbooks, which have been selling quickly even as demand for other PCs has plummeted. Google said it believed the software would also be able to power full-fledged PCs.
The move is likely to sharpen the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of…