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Google Chrome OS Launches in Beta

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The Chomebook was released last week by Google with hardware being provided by Samsung and Acer so far. The hardware is due to hit the streets June 15th and in preparation of the launch they have started formal beta testing for Chrome OS 12. We…

1.2GHz Tegra 2 3D Chipsets Side Leak Indicates Spring Release

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Once the Tegra 2 devices start to trickle in you have to ask your self so what’s next? When we heard JenHsun speak at the Nvidia GPU conference we heard that Tegra 3 was on its way, but it seems that he left out a…

Google Chrome OS Reaches Release Candidate, May Arrive Next Month

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The last official word from Google about their upcoming Chrome OS was a release at the end of this year and now that we’re almost there it’s reassuring to see that their OS has apparently reached Release Candidate stage a couple of days ago according…

Freescale’s $ 199 with Chrome Tablet OS

We haven’t come up with a cute nickname for Chrome Tablets like we have for the Tabloids (Android Tablets) but we are open to suggestions! Charbax over at Armdevices.net has come across a $199 Chome tablet by Freescale. We have actually already done our hands…

iPad Alternative? Google Tablet mockups surface

In the turbulent wake of Apple’s iPad announcement we’ve been seeing lots of other tablet devices given the once over, since it’s become clear the iPad won’t be all things to all men as Apple envisaged.
The latest contender, and quite a heavyweight at that,…

How Painting works in Chrome with Brett Wilson

Because of Chromium’s multi-process architecture, painting within Chromium is far from typical. In this talk, Brett Wilson starts from Skia and the WebKit render tree, follows the bits across the process boundaries, and continues all the way to your screen. He also details many of…

Learn about Chromium Layout Tests with Pam Greene

Layout Tests are the tests we inherit from the WebKit project and are a very important part of the Chromium’s testing infrastructure. Pam Greene talks about what they are, how to run them, how to debug problems within them, and even touches on how to…

Chrome’s WebKit Guts with Eric Seidel

A large percentage of Chromium’s code (and part of what makes it so fast) is WebKit. In this talk, Eric Seidel gives us a 30,000 foot view of how WebKit actually renders a page. He starts with how resources are loaded, explains how they’re parsed…

Learn about Chromium WebKit API with Darin Fisher

Darin Fisher talks about the recently upstreamed Chromium WebKit API. The API is a critical step in our path to becoming completely integrated into the WebKit project. Like the other WebKit APIs, ours is a veneer which shields developers (including many of our own) from…

Google Based Chome O/S Netbook Specs are Out!

You can already visit the Chromium blog to meet up with slews of others that have already hacked Google’s O/S onto existing netbooks. But what’s really peaked our interest is the Chrome OS netbooks that the software giant has planned for next year. According to…

Chrome O/S Netbook with Touch Screen

Clearly the Buzz on the Internet has been Chrome O/S for the past few weeks. The TechGuru 2.0 team have made a video of Chrome running on the touch screen of an ASUS T91. We won’t be seeing the final version of Chrome until late…