Chrome OS

New Chrome Notebooks By Mid-Year?

by Mike Mansell March 10, 2011

It seems like only a short time ago Google announced the pilot program for the CR-48 notebook computer; the first consumer device to ever be made available for the general public. For those of you who don’t remember, Google announced in early December that the progress in the highly anticipated Chrome OS had finally gotten [...]

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Keep Your Eyes Peeled: A Chrome OS Notebook May Be in Your Future

by Mike Mansell December 22, 2010

A little more than a week ago, Jeff wrote about a website that was tracking all of Google’s Chrome OS notebook shipments in order to determine what regions the were being sent to and who was likely to get a hold of the device first. Being as eager as I was to get my hands on the [...]

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Track Your Google Chrome OS Notebook

by Jeff Weisbein December 13, 2010

Did you sign up to receive one of the 60,000 Chrome OS notebooks being sent out for free to beta testers around the country? Well, if you did, chances are you are a little anxious to see if you have been selected by Google. You wouldn’t be alone – someone apparently gathered the tracking numbers [...]

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Chrome OS Could Debut Tomorrow

by Mike Mansell December 6, 2010

A little more than a year ago, Internet giant Google announced a new operating system that promised to revolutionize the way in which we use our computers and complete our day-to-day tasks. This operating system, entitled Chrome OS was supposed to build upon the success of Google’s Chrome web browser in order to create a [...]

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Chrome OS: Not Just For Netbooks

by Mike Mansell November 26, 2010

It has already been made perfectly clear that Google’s upcoming Chrome operating system is going to be a miserable failure if it is used exclusively for netbook computers. With the market for tablet computers expanding at a rapid rate, competition in the mobile computing field is undoubtedly going to become a big thing. So it should [...]

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Chrome OS Netbooks Doomed for Failure?

by Jeff Weisbein November 3, 2010

Google’s Chrome OS netbooks may be right around the corner according to DigiTimes which reports that ARM-based Chrome OS netbooks may debut as early as this month. While that is great news, it is also terrible timing. Apple’s iPad growth has been explosive. People prefer the iPad to netbooks. But it may not just be [...]

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Chrome OS: I’m Disappointed.

by Jeff Weisbein November 21, 2009

Google held the Chrome OS event this past Thursday and I’ll admit I was excited. Excited to see what Google would bring to the table and how game changing it would be. However, while my excitement is there (mainly due to the inner geek still wanting to try it), I’m a little disappointed with what [...]

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Google Chrome OS – It’s Coming!

by Jeff Weisbein November 17, 2009

Google is planning on holding a special Chrome OS event at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA this coming Thursday. At the event, Google is going to give some technical background information as well as show off some demos. However, most notably, they are supposedly giving a complete overview of the new OS, which they [...]

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Will Google Have Anti-Trust Issues In The EU?

by Jeff Weisbein August 2, 2009

Today, I was thinking about the on-going Microsoft anti-trust issues in the European Union. The very same issues which led Microsoft to originally announce they would be selling a separate version of Windows 7 called Windows 7 E which would not have the Internet Explorer browser pre-installed (by default). However, that plan has changed according [...]

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Google Introduces Chrome OS

by Jeff Weisbein July 8, 2009

It’s official. What many people have been waiting so anxiously for has been announced. The Google operating system, which will be known as Google Chrome OS has been introduced on the official Google blog. The operating system which will be based on Linux is going to initially be offered for netbooks and then move its [...]

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