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Google Chromebooks with only one-year subscription plans

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Google recently revealed some changes to its subscription model for schools and business for its Chromebook. Feedback from organizations like businesses and schools determined changes in the three-year plans, transforming them in one-year cycles meant to match better their annual budgets. However, three-year plans continue to be available. The organizations are now allowed to pay [...]

Chrome OS notebooks would go mainstream in second part of 2011

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Notebooks equipped with Google’s streamlined and cloud-based Chrome OS are now confirmed to go mainstream, although they were originally expected to ship in numbers in this year’s first half. The change will take place in the second half of this year. A wide range of important vendors are supposed to present their Chrome OS notebooks [...]

Mail core developer says Chrome has to die or join Android

Published on: 20th December, 2010

Paul Buchheit, core developer of Gmail, recently predicted that Chrome OS would die in 2011. as a former Google employee and creator of FreindFeed, he feels that the operating system will either be simply ended or would have to merge with Android. Buchheit added that there was no idea with Chrome and even the Cr-48 [...]

Google’s Chrome operating system will soon come to handhelds, tablets and TVs

Published on: 15th December, 2010

The vice president of Google’s engineering for Chrome, Linus Upson, recently unveiled his company’s plans of expansion of the Chrome operating system beyond netbooks. he said that the web application platform was meant to traditional compute design, but also had the potential to constitute an alternative to Android on smaller devices and Google TV provided [...]

Google CEO says Chrome OS is keyboard-oriented, not touch

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, at the Web 2.0 summit, clarified the strategy of his company for Chrome OS devices. He stated again that Google designed the operating system for devices which provided a hardware keyboard to be used as input device, rather than a touch-only alternative common to the majority of the tablets present on [...]

Chrome OS due soon, now in Release Candidate status

Published on: 16th October, 2010

Google’s Chrome operating system may be ready in about a month’s time, since bug comments indicate the code reached Release Candidate status. The information is sure and says the operating system is almost finalized, its latest build being identified as near-ready 0.9.78.1. This is corroborating with a mention of a Google employee referring to a [...]

Dell and Google to have a deal for Chrome OS netbooks

Published on: 25th June, 2010

Dell has confirmed talks with Google for the implementation of Chrome operating system on netbooks. Amit Midha, Dell’s president of greater China and South Asia has acknowledged that such devices were in the development phase. Such references suggest Dell would be part of this year’s first wave. If Dell adopts Chrome OS, it would be [...]

Acer will not show Chrome OS devices at next Computex show

Published on: 19th May, 2010

Acer has denied rumors about presenting Chrome OS devices at the Computex show next month. The company claimed there was no short-term plan for the launch of a netbook using the desktop operating system of Google. Although Acer acknowledged Chrome OS was a good product, but was not ready to assume any plans of using [...]

Chrome OS devices to be priced under $400

Published on: 24th April, 2010

Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has revealed that Chrome OS devices should be not expensive when going to sale. The statement was made during the Atmosphere Cloud Computing Forum. His estimation was that they would only cost between $300 and $400, the price being associated only with their hardware, since the Chrome operating system is free [...]

Multi-touch available for Linux and Chrome OS?

Published on: 24th April, 2010

Synaptics Inc., a human interface solutions developer, has announced its Synaptics Gesture Suite ready for Linux-based devices. This way, multi-touch support is available for the first time to the open source operating system. Synaptics is currently offering multi-touch interface for Windows-based TouchPad devices. The Synaptics Gesture Suite can also be used on Google Chrome OS-based [...]

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