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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 [...]

Beta release of Microsoft’s IE9 with heavy HTML5 emphasis

Published on: 9th March, 2010

A possible beta release for the Internet Explorer 9 could benefit from a heavy HTML5 emphasis, according to some leaks. It would be presented at Microsoft’s MIX 2010 developer conference this month. A briefing is scheduled with the title “HTML5 Now: The Future of Web Markup Today”. The party will be presented by Opera Software’s [...]

Google’s Chrome was the champion browser in February

Published on: 6th March, 2010

The only important web browser to gain market share in February was Google’s Chrome, according to Net Applications. The WebKit browser has gained four tenths last month, reaching 5.61 percent of web use, while all the other significant browsers dropped. There was another drop for Internet Explorer to the lowest level in history, 61.58 percent. [...]

NVIDIA Ion video acceleration for Chromium OS

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

Chromium, Chrome’s OS open-source variant, has recently received the first GPU acceleration through Flow, the custom version. The new variant benefits from hardware acceleration through an NVIDIA Ion chipset and it is very possible that it will also get basic support and added performance in some areas which is able to use the faster-than-usual graphics. [...]

ASUS to choose between Android and Chrome for tablets and smartbooks

Published on: 21st January, 2010

A ZDNet report is revealing that the Taiwanese PC manufacturer ASUS is now testing smartbooks that run on both Chrome and Android operating systems and is also thinking to add an ARM-based PC to the Intel-powered Eee PC netbooks. Jonney Shih, ASUS chairman, has mentioned this in a recent interview. He also said that the [...]

Another Chrome OS-powered device from Google?

Published on: 20th December, 2009

A new self-designed device is expected from Google and will run Chrome OS. This time it is not a phone, as Google seems to be negotiating with a PC builder the specifications for a netbook which will run Chrome OS. Similar to the case of the Nexus One which served as a showcase for Android, [...]

Testing Google’s Chrome browser for Mac

Published on: 13th December, 2009

Google has released the beta version of the Chrome browser for use on the Mac platform, the Windows variant already having a year of availability. The open source software is meant to compete with other browsers like Firefox and Safari. This latest release offers many of the features of the Windows version, but the earlier [...]

NVIDIA Tegra Smartbooks running Google Chrome OS on The Way

Published on: 27th September, 2009

NVIDIA has been confirmed to be working with Google on Tegra-based Smartbooks running Google Chrome OS. The company’s GM of mobile business, Mike Rayfield, stated that NVIDIA expects to see Tegra-based smartphones using Windows Mobile, while Smartbooks or netbooks would use Chrome OS or Windows CE. Tegra is capable of high-definition playback, and its creators [...]

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