Wolens explained that photos remaining online are stuck in a legacy system that was apparently never operating properly, but said the company is working on a new system that will delete the photos in a mere month and a half.

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That seems to be the thought behind Chrome OS, a minimalist operating system that Google announced it was working on a couple of months ago.

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Cheriton has been working on the guts of its operating system since 2004, when the company was founded.

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The second was the news from the team working with the open source elements of WebOS, who have the former Palm operating system running on another Nexus device, the Nexus 7.

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Hewlett-Packard is said to have killed the Slate, which was to be based on Microsoft's Windows, and is now reportedly working on a tablet using an operating system from Palm, the smart-phone maker that HP recently bought.

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