06/13/2011, If you’ve wondered about the profit that Samsung makes for selling each one of their Chromebooks, you have to wonder no more. According to the folks over at iSuppli, who gave the Samsung 3G Chromebook a tear down, it costs $322 to obtain the parts to make one of these Chrome OS-powered notebooks, while it retails for only $499. That’s not a very large profit margin for Samsung, when compared […]

06/11/2011, While Google is in legal battle over the “Chromebook” name, it looks like it hasn’t stopped the company from getting its devices out. Acer has officially announced the price of the Acer Cromia Chromebook (3G). Folks who want to get their hands on one of these babies will only need to for out $449.99, $50 less than Samsung’s own 3G Chromebook offering, the Series 5. For those of you who […]

06/09/2011, Despite affirmations from Google about how Chrome OS is designed for notebooks (better known as Chromebooks), more evidence that they’re taking the operating system into a tablet-friendly market has surfaced. The folks over at Chrome Story stumbled upon a Chrome OS daily build for Tegra 2 devices a week ago (which can’t be shared at the moment) and now they’ve managed to dig up screenshots of the Google Chrome web […]

06/09/2011, Google just tweeted that they will finally sell their Chromebooks – as part of a pre-order package, of course. It has been a long ride to this day from when Google first announced the commencement of their Chromebooks a couple of years ago, and Google tweeted, “Nothing but the web: Samsung & Acer  #Chromebooks now available for pre-order from  @Amazon and  @BestBuy in the US, http://t.co/LpY0jWU, Pre-order from Best Buy […]

06/08/2011, The latest version of Google’s web browser, Google Chrome has finally graduated from the beta channel into the stable channel and has been pushed out to Chrome users all over the world. Google has announced its release on the official blog, and Chrome 12 looks to be better than ever. The browser has improved security, privacy, and improved graphics support. Improvements in security are due to enhancements to Safe Browsing […]

05/24/2011, People can be fickle minded at times, and since people run corporations, it makes sense (although not to everyone) for a company to exhibit fickle-mindedness as well. Toshiba could be said to fall under that category, as word from Digitimes’ source of leaks have it that the Japanese company might just stop supporting Chromebooks and Windows 7 tablets. It seems that the company’s roadmap has eliminated the two of them […]

05/24/2011, Google’s Chrome OS Beta channel has seen an update to the R12 release 0.12.433.48 which will include Chrome 12.0.742.60 Beta, a spanking new flash player as well as a handful of stability and functional improvements when you compare it to the the previous release. Apart from that and all of Chrome 12′s new features, a bunch of additional Chrome OS improvements will include a fix for [Bug 13269] that involves […]

05/20/2011, Now we all know that Google’s Chrome OS was specifically designed for laptops/netbooks, but who’s to say that it wouldn’t work on desktop computer? That’s why the folks over at Xi3 Corporation have just announced the ChromiumPC modular computer – the world’s first desktop computer designed to run Google’s Chrome operating system.

05/19/2011, The Google Chrome user interface trends more towards minimalism, as with many of the things we see these days. “Less is more” is the new mantra, and you get that with fashion all the way to consumer electronics. Ever noticed how much slimmer your TV is compared to the one you had as a kid? Chrome developers also followed such footsteps, removing as many parts of the browser windows as […]

05/18/2011, Despite what Google has mentioned about Google’s Chrome OS not arriving on tablets (which will be reserved for Android instead), there seems to be hints that the operating system might be headed to or were originally designed for tablets. Some folks were checking out the latest developer APIs for Chromium OS (the open source version of Chrome OS) and found an experimental feature called handwriting input. The new handwriting input […]

05/16/2011, Some updates in the Chrome OS code as well as forums before Google I/O happened recently pointed towards the imminent release of a new version, and with the recent unveiling of Chromebooks to the masses (although they aren’t ready yet to ship since the first orders will start heading out at around June 15th), it does seem that this time window is there as Chrome OS still required some polishing […]

05/14/2011, We live blogged the Google I/O keynote on Wednesday where major announcements were made, including the launch of the Google  Chromebook computers manufactured by Samsung and Acer that will be available June 15 in the US for $449 (Samsung WiFi version), $499 (Samsung WiFi+3G version) and $349 (Acer). “The future is on the web”…”in a browser”, Google says, so the search giant is bringing its dream to the market in […]

05/13/2011, Samsung’s latest Chromebook is set to be the rage amongst users if everyone and their pet dog adopts it – of course, we wish Acer the best as well since they, too, will have a Chromebook of their own. Well, what better way to celebrate it than to roll out your official product website for the masses to check out?  There are four models on show there, which would comprise […]

05/12/2011, The recently announced Google Chromebooks might have gotten the world to sit up and take notice (especially when Angry Birds is made available for it over the Web!), and depending on which group you are on, there is a very different reason for doing so. Casual consumer electronics users will see it as a new toy, but security experts are much darker in their assessment – touting that a cloud-based […]