Google is scheduled to give the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Chrome operating system tomorrow. Here are some of the questions which could be answered by the event:

Five years ago today, on November 9, 2004, Mozilla launched Firefox 1.0 and the Web browser has never looked back. In that five years Firefox has grown from an open source product for nerds and geeks to a mainstream product with 330 million users worldwide and a 20-25 percent market share. So, what does the future hold for Firefox?

Have you ever looked at your mouse and thought, ‘I wish someone would over complicate this?’ Well, your wishes have come true!

Just a couple of decade ago, the only way to have a wealth of information available at your fingertips was to purchase a costly and bulky set of encyclopedias. These could take up a whole bookshelf and cost a month’s wages. Now, the Internet offers that wealth of information in the form of Wikipedia. And the WikiReader brings Wikipedia to your pocket for under $100.

Mozilla, the people that brought you Firefox, are now aiming to serve all your Web communications needs by combining email, social media, and more in a single unified software interface.

Microsoft has been targeting the OS competition this year in order to prepare for the release of Windows 7. Mac and Linux have been coming under fire from Microsoft lately with a barrage of ad campaigns and patent schemes. After the leak of the Best Buy training material onto the Web recently, more information has been revealed indicating that Microsoft is bribing Best Buy employees with a little incentive to take the training.

A national association of newspapers asked for advice on how America’s newspapers could stop hemorrhaging money on the web and received answers from some unexpected sources.

It was only a matter of time before school districts began to realize how much money they could save by moving from printed text books to digital version, but will they have the money to make that large of a move?

When your rich, friendly neighbor goes into competition with you, what do you do? That’s what Mozilla has to figure out now that Google has brought out the Chrome browser to compete with Firefox.

A Linux executive has a vision of the future in which personal computers will be given away free by telecommunications service provider in exchange for a contract, just as cell phones often are today.

Microsoft is loudly touting its first ever contribution of code to the open source community. Too bad the 20,000 lines of code boil down to three device drivers that will help Microsoft sell its own products.

Google recently unveiled its new Chrome OS that will be coming out next year on various netbooks. Chrome OS is said to be operational on desktops as well. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer recently made some comments regarding Google’s latest venture into the OS market.

After years of speculation, Google has finally announced that it is launching its own operating system.

A study by IBM reports that IT staff find setting up Linux desktops easier than expected. The news came as an executive for the firm called Windows Vista the best recruiting tool for Linux desktops.

While HTC has yet to confirm a forthcoming Android netbook, the company was behind the launch of the G1 and has dabbled in netbook-style devices in the past. HTC has quickly become a top smartphone manufacturer, but can it duplicate that success in the netbook market?

For the first time, Linux is now used on more than 1 percent of computers. While not a major breakthrough, it means the system has beaten Apple in their respective marches to a milestone.

The new Samsung i7500 will be the company’s first touch-based smartphone to run the Google Android operating system. The initial release will bring the i7500 to O2 subscribers in Germany this June and Samsung is hinting at broader availability of the device.