Toshiba Admits Defeat and Will Launch Blu-Ray Player

Toshiba, the creator Blu-Ray’s failed nemesis, the HD-DVD, has admitted defeat in the best way they can: They are going to launch a Blu-Ray player.

Toshiba's first Blu-Ray player should be launched sometime around Christmas "sources" say it'll be called the BD-18. We don't yet know anything else about the player.

Google Releases Chrome OS Partners, Dell Sony and Toshiba are not Included.

Google has released a partial list of Chrome OS partners and it includes most of the big manufacturers you would expect, from all sectors of the computing world, from full-featured PCs to netbooks to handhelds, plus Adobe for some Flash support.

The full list is: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments. Google made sure to note that this is a partial list, but we can see a range from primarily small-form computer makers like ASUS to bigger PCs like HP and Lenovo, and the addition of Qualcomm and TI means they've got low-powered chipset makers on board. Adobe is an interesting pull—can we expect heavy use of Flash in the OS's core?

The biggest company that is missing is Dell, although smaller PC makers like Sony and Toshiba are not included either. We are not to sure why Dell did not want to become a partner They make pretty popular netbooks and Chrome OS could be as big a boon for them as anyone else. Perhaps they will stick to Windows 7.