Google dreaming up Chrome OS tablets to take on Apple's iPad

From InfoWorld: Google has conceptual images for what a Chrome OS-based tablet computer user interface might look like at its open source Chromium Projects site.

The images actually went up a couple of days before Apple made its big iPad splash last week. Meanwhile, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has followed up that announcement with some tough talk regarding Google and its efforts to horn in on Apple's iPhone business with Android, so Google's tablet efforts are sure to get Jobs' attention as well.

Google says some possibilities for a Chrome OS tablet would include keyboard interaction with the screen (a virtual keyboard showing up on the screen), something Apple demoed as well during its iPad launch.

Google showed its Linux-based Chrome OS to the world in November and has described it as being targeted at notebooks, but some say the OS could be ideal for more Web-oriented tablets.

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