Microsoft has announced it has entered a patent licensing deal with Foxconn's parent company. The company will now receive royalty payments for every Android and Chrome OS device manufactured there. More...
Market share statistics provided by NetMarketShare indicate that Chrome OS' share after two years on the market is just 0.023%, lower than Windows RT after three months of availability More...
Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said today that the company has no plans to merge its popular Android mobile operating system with its Chrome OS, although there could be some overlap. More...
Google has unveiled the first premium Chromebook: the Pixel. It includes an Intel i5 CPU, Intel HD 4000 GPU and 4GB of RAM, as well as a 13-inch high-res display starting at $1,299. More...
A new report claims that Google is working with PC makers on new Chromebooks models that will have touchscreens for a launch sometime later in 2013, but specifics were not mentioned. More...
A video has been posted on the Internet that seems to reveal that Google is working on an in-house version of its Chromebook notebook that has a high resolution touchscreen. More...
Google quite frequently offers up cash to those who can find security holes in its software and If you are headed to Pwnium this year, you can walk away with a serious amount of cash. More...
Google, a nearly impenetrable force in the search market, is now starting to make waves in the OS market too. But should Microsoft be concerned about Google's lightweight, Internet-dependent OS? More...
A newly revealed HP documents shows that the PC maker will be the latest to release a Chromebook notebook running on Google's Chrome OS, following the lead from Samsung, Acer and Lenovo. More...
Lenovo has announced a Chromebook that is targeted at the education market and is built to withstand the trials and tribulations of the education sector but it's hard to ignore that the device is ugly More...
A $200 laptop is a difficult thing to assess. On one hand, the Acer C7 Chromebook has that shockingly low price tag, on the other, there is weak build quality and a netbook-grade processor. More...
A recent update to the developer version of Google's Chrome OS finally adds multi-monitor support, allowing Chromebooks to extend their monitors to another device. More...
Google have been forced to pull an update to their Chrome OS, and issue recovery instructions, after the latest developer update started to (almost) brick Chromebooks, rendering the devices useless. More...
Google has released a new update for its Chrome OS, allowing users to save files directly to their Google Drive account, along with some changes for its app user interface. More...
The USPTO accepted Google's application for its network-based “operating system”, ie that Chrome OS that has been pretty unsuccessful thus far. More...
It appears Google may have begun testing touch based Chrome OS devices, with new options appearing in the OS to enable a touch interface and support for touch devices. More...
Google has announced a major new update to its Chrome OS, along with a new Chromebook notebook from Samsung as well as the small desktop-like Chromebox product. More...
If you like the Windows 7 task bar and OS X app launcher, you will love the latest Chrome OS build as it rips both of those features and has no shame about it. More...
Over the past few months we've been hearing about the progress Google has made in developing their Chrome operating system. However Sundar Pichai who is Google Chrome's senior vice president has stated that for now,... More...
Chrome OS notebooks from Acer and Samsung are expected to launch next month at $349 and $429, respectively. The fact that you can get a more powerful netbook with Windows 7 pre-installed for roughly the... More...
Google last week announced their new line up of Chrome OS based Netbooks -- "ChromeBooks" -- at their developer conference, Google I/O. The ChromeBook is a new type of computer that runs Google Chrome OS... More...
Google wants to make the Internet your computer. Or, to use more modern IT parlance, Google wants to use the Internet as their giant desktop virtualization server. Google’s marketing spot for Chrome OS assumes that... More...
At Google’s I/O 2011 conference, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has used harsh words to criticize Microsoft’s Windows operating system, outlining why Google is tackling Microsoft in the heavily one-sided OS market. Captured by GeekWire during... More...
Google is not only releasing Chrome OS to the consumer market. At today’s keynote at Google I/O, Google pushed the significance of Chrome OS in the enterprise. Touting partnerships with Citrix and other cloud/virtualization firms,... More...
Google I/O has kicked off for the second and final day with another Keynote and today was all about Chrome.
Chrome
160,000,000 Chrome users
Speech recognition built straight into Chrome
Performance improvements are the main focus
GPU acceleration for... More...
The second day of Google I/O featured some great announcements in the Chrome ecosphere, including an interesting focus on the fact that Angry Birds is going to be available in browsers from the Chrome Web... More...
To be sold as a subscription.
You may or may not have seen the news about the Google Chrome production notebooks floating around the web today. Ariotech reports that "Google product manager Sundar Pichai said,... More...
Chrome OS, the web based closed source Linux based operating system from Google, is now being developed to work on tablet computers. According to CNET, "details in Google's source code reveal that company programmers have... More...
Those of you in the Pilot Program rejoice! Google has officially made available a large update for the new platform which brings a large amount of bug fixes, including a "fix" for the trackpad. The... More...
Until today Google's Chrome OS has been free of added bloat, but according to the Google Operating System Blog the Chrome 10 Dev Channel build will include two HTML5 games: Poppit and Entaglement. If you're... More...
Richard Stallman has his sights set on a new rights related target. The outspoken founder of the FSF believes that Chrome OS and cloud computing are "worse than stupidity." Stallman also believes that Google's push... More...
Paul Buchheit, the creator of Google AdSense technology and the lead developer of Gmail, claims that Chrome OS will not still be here 12 months next year. This comes as quite a shock since Google... More...
Today, Google officially announced Chrome OS at a special event for the new operating system. Chrome OS has been a long time coming, but until today, there's been no official announcement on any of the... More...
Google originally said that its Chrome OS would debut for free in Autumn. Reports now suggest that the OS will not arrive until 2011.
Google originally announced the operating system back in July, eventually making a... More...
Chrome OS is nearly finished and ready to be pushed to the masses. The OS is planned to be put onto "smartbooks," which is a device slightly smaller than a netbook that has the internals... More...
When you put up a poll (our poll is located in the right sidebar, under the "latest software" section) that asks whether or not an Apple product will do well, one can usually predict the... More...
HTC is building a Chrome OS tablet to be released on the Verizon network on November 26. Coming from an anonymous source, Downloadsquad says that this tip makes a lot of sense. Google and Verizon... More...
In a recent interview with the Telegraph Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt discussed the company’s approach to data, its mobile operating system, Android, and its unreleased operating system, Chrome OS. The most interesting part of the... More...
Google announced today that Google Chrome OS will debut for free in autumn, and compete directly with Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Google originally announced the operating system back in July, eventually making a beta available... More...
It's been long predicted that Acer would be releasing devices running Google's Chrome OS, but now VentureBeat reports that that Acer will unveil the devices in two weeks, at the Computex Taipei show, which starts... More...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Verizon is partnering with Google to release a tablet computer, possibly to compete with the wildly successful iPad. Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam said that "[Tablets] are the next... More...
In an inteview last week (uncovered by TechRadar) during the Atmosphere Cloud Computing Forum, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated that Google Chrome OS netbooks should price out at $300 to $400. He emphasized that the... More...
Google today lifted the wraps on its upcoming web printing service, Google Cloud Print. Designed for their forthcoming Chrome OS but soon to be available for all platforms, Google Cloud Print will allow users to... More...
Gizmodo is reporting a New York Times article that's got some juicy tablet gossip for all you iPad crazed folk. Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, is said to have spilled the beans on Google's rumored tablet... More...
Whilst Google's upcoming Chrome OS is being primarily designed for netbook computers, as we reported recently, it could be the ideal operating system to run on a tablet device - and this is an option... More...
Following Apple's unveiling of its iPad tablet computer earlier this week, could Google also be planning to launch a rival tablet running its upcoming Chrome operating system? The Chrome OS has until now been aimed... More...
It seems that Google plans to re-define the stereotypical netbook. Spec wise, if sources are correct, the Google Netbook will completely change the way we look at netbooks—small, but weak, to cheap, but powerful. According... More...