Tag: Chrome OS
Microsoft to collect royalties from android and chrome OS devices made by Foxconn
We have seen Microsoft strike licensing agreements with a number of manufacturers in the past few years and today the company announced that it has made a deal with Foxconn, one of the largest manufacturers of consumer devices to collect a portion of money made from the android and Chrome OS phones. As [...]
Will Google’s Steeply Priced Chromebook Pixel Gain Traction In the Market?
Google has set its foot in a lot of fields with one of them being Chromebooks. These cloud based laptops/notebooks (if we can call it that) don’t brag of a lot of raw horsepower. The Samsung and Acer Chromebooks that are available in the market today come for a very good price and do its [...]
Google Goes High-End with the Chromebook Pixel
Rumors started surfacing early this month that Google was in the final stages of preparing to release a new high end Chromebook dubbed Pixels. This at first didn’t sound realistic, especially now as Google seems to boast in the glory of the success of Android as a tablet and smartphone operating system, but the Pixel [...]
Google Could Launch Touch Based Chromebooks in the Future
Tablets these days are a huge market. But we all know that tablets are an evolution of the standard notebook PC. Manufacturers wanted to interact with the display itself rather than offering a separate layout for keyboards, which is where the idea of the modern tablet was born. In the current era, we have tablets [...]
HP Releases Chrome OS-Based Pavilion 14 For $329.99
HP has just launched its first Chrome OS-based device called the Pavilion 14 around a week after an allegedly leaked spec sheet surfaced. The device will have to compete against other similar Chrome OS devices that are out in the market, such as the Samsung Chromebook and the Acer C7. The Pavilion 14, as its [...]
HP’s First Chromebook Gets Leaked Out
The Chromebook market will be getting another player as HP is set to release its first ever model. Previously only Samsung and Acer released models for this line. The HP Pavilion Chromebook will sport the largest display of any Chromebook available with a size of 14 inches. HP Pavilion Chromebook 14-c010us PC Technical Specifications 14-inch [...]
Lenovo Set To Release ThinkPad Chromebook
Lenovo announced this Thursday their new laptop that’s designed specifically to be used in schools. The Lenovo ThinkPad X131e Chromebook costs $430 which is higher than the $200 Chromebook of Acer or the $250 Chromebook of Samsung. The company says that their model costs higher due to some unique features included such as the red [...]
How is Google Planning to Take on Windows and Mac PCs? Android PCs or Chrome OS?
Earlier today, I was going through various blogs and reading tech news when I came across a very interesting piece on CNET. What caught my eye was the wording on the title, ‘Is Google headed toward an Android Nexus PC?’. Being a Google and especially Android fanatic, I found it rather fascinating and exhilarating at [...]
Android and Chrome OS to Tie Up?
Google has revealed that the next step for Chrome OS is a gradual convergence with Android, and not its use on a Chrome OS-based tablet. Both Chrome OS and Android carry the Google brand, the former used in desktop computing, while the latter, at mobile computing. The convergence, reveals Google’s vice president of engineering, will [...]
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[UPDATED]BREAKING: Angry Birds Coming To The Web Via Chrome
Rovio Mobile CMO is still onstage at Google IO talking right now about the newest version of Angry Birds. This version of Angry Birds is available in the Chrome web store starting now. Vesterbacka said that not only can you play Angry Birds via chrome on the chrome browser but they’ve come up with a [...]
Google I/O 2011 Preview, Complete Team Coverage Begins
Although thedroidguy has been in San Francisco now for three weeks the rest of the team is arriving today and tomorrow to provide you at home with complete team coverage of Google IO 2011. Thousands of developers and enthusiasts across all Google products are converging on downtown San Francisco for the largest Google IO to [...]
Mario & Andretti; Googles Internal Chrome OS netbooks racing to a 2010 release.
Despite a story that ran all over the net, including here, that said Chrome OS wouldn’t dealer this, year, our friends at Tech Crunch are reporting that Chrome OS netbooks will be launched this year. Although Chrome OS won’t reach netbooks provided by their launch OEM partners, they are producing two internal Google branded netbooks. [...]
Google’s Chrome OS Delayed, Analysts Blame Android
If everything was going according to plan we would start seeing Chrome OS on netbooks and laptops as early, as well next week. However Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the release of Google’s Chrome OS has been delayed and has not given any kind of time frame as to how long. A Google [...]
