Earlier this month, Google’s VP of product management Sundary Pichai tweeted that Chrome OS devices from partners would be out mid-year. That’s been confirmed once again by Pocket-lint who’ve been told by Google to expect devices out in Q2 in the UK and several other…
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Intel/Android Devices on Display at IDF Beijing
Intel has gotten on board with Android and as a part of that push they have decided to cooperate with Taiwan-based notebook makers including Inventec and Compal Electronics. Supposedly the fruits of these ventures are going to be on display at Intel Developer Forum (IDF)…
Google Chrome CR-48 shipments end, retail Chrome netbooks in the next few months
Google’s pilot Chrome CR-48 notebook program in the US has ended with Google’s VP of product management Sundar Pichai stating that all available units have been shipped. The original announcement was 60,000 units and we saw two rounds of shipments with the latter batch adding…
2011 Predictions for Netbooks & Tablets
We’ve got our crystal ball and we aren’t afraid to use it! We get into what the landscape will look like in terms of who is coming onto the scene to threaten Intel’s dominance in the netbook space. The over all mobile computing ecosystem is…
2011 Mobile Computing Predictions: Operating Systems
2010 we made a few predictions about mobile operating systems and we have to admit, we were pretty on the money! So for 2011 we thought we would throw together some O/S predictions for the mobile ecosystem. Find out what we think about Android, WebOS,…
60,000 Chrome OS netbooks Heading to Google
Looks like there was some Google News in Asia after all. Inventec has confirmed that it has already shipped about 60,000 Chrome OS-based netbooks to Google. The netbooks are meant for testing, which is most likely the pilot program that Google is running over the…
Chrome OS Devices Won’t Dual Boot to Windows
Details around Google’s Chrome Laptop strategy weren’t made clear during their announcement but Joanna Stern over at Engadget got to spend some time with Google VP of Product Management Sundar Pichai afterwards. He kept his lips sealed about upcoming Chrome OS netbooks from Acer and…
Google Chrome OS Netbook Keyboard Leaked
With rumours of a Chrome OS netbook being released on Tuesday its only natural that we’re starting to get some leaks around the details. We’ve heard that its going to be powered by an Intel Atom processor which isn’t much of a surprise, what has…
Chrome OS For “Clamshell Devices With Keyboards”
Back in September we heard from Mr Schmidt, Google CEO, that the upcoming Chrome OS was for netbooks (don’t know if the term netbook was used actually) with no plans to adopt it to tablets – that sentiment was just confirmed the other day over…
Chrome OS Netbook Release in November?
Looks like the rumor mill is in fine from after Halloween, it might be all the candy getting everyone excited about a possible Chrome OS release this month. Acer has made promises that Chrome OS devices would be released this fall, while Digitimes has been…
Google Confirms Chrome 7 will have GPU Acceleration
With the release of the first versions of Chrome 7, initial reviews indicated a subtle speed increase in graphics-heavy websites and suggested that Google is improving Chrome’s overall graphics performance. This is due the fact that GPU acceleration can already be manually activated. Google has…
Taiwan Gossip: ASUS Android/Chrome Snapdragon Tablet end of 2010
The Monday Morning Gossip out of Taiwan is news from AGAiT Technology which is a wholly owned subsidiary vendor of Asustek Computer. They boast that they will be producing tablet PCs based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform and Android/Chrome operating systems at the end of 2010.…
Acer Chrome OS NetbookS at Computex?!?
Lots of news coming up in the next few weeks, but the thin edge of the wedge for Google’s OS said that it will be the first to market with a Chrome OS netbook. They made this statement a while ago, but it looks like…
