Chrome OS tablet: ipad killer or bad idea?
Rumor has it, the long awaited Chrome OS tablet will be launched on November 26th, in time for the big shopping season. But will this be the big iPad killer, or just a really bad idea?
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Verizon and Google stocks rise after tablet...
As if Google stock wasn’t high enough already, at a whopping $476.26, it went up another 2.1% after news of its Chrome OS tablet surfaced. Verizon stock jumped even more, by 5.9 % (video after the jump)
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Chrome OS tablet due in November?
Finally, there’s a (rumored) concrete date, that Google is launching its Chrome OS tablet on Verizon on November 26th.
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Competition for Chrome OS?
Even before the launch of Chrome OS, Internet giant Google has found itsself quite a few rivals. The latest: semYOU, hailed by its developers as “the first semantic Internet operating system”.
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Android beats iPhone!
According to Google head honcho Eric Schmidt, Google believes that about 200,000 new Android devices are being sold each day. “People are finally beginning to figure out how successful Android is,” Schmidt said at the inaugural Techonomy conference, pointing to recent studies showing that Android is even beating the massively populair iPhone
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FeedSquares: Great new way to read your New...
It’s hard making sense of all the news and rapidly seeing what you already read and what you didn’t read. Reading feeds with Google Reader is ok, but it still is not optimal if you have a lot of feeds with 1000s of new posts per day. Feedsquares tries to end this problem by making reading feeds more visual than you are used to. By organizing your feeds automatically and showing different categories in different colors like so:
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A new Chrome os release every 6 weeks?
Google has promised to produce a new, stable, version of Chrome OS every six weeks. Sounds grand, but what’s the point?
Google’s program manager Anthony Laforge wrote on the Official Google blog that the company is aiming to present a new, stable, release to speed up the pace at which Google Chrome releases are available to the public. According to Laforge (am I the only one who’s thinking Star Trek?) stated that there are three “fundamental goals in reducing the cycle time”
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Google introduces Chrome Canary
For the hardcore Chrome fan there’s something new to try: the google Chrome Canary version.
So what ‘s a canary version? Well, it’s a mining term. When miners used to go down dangerous dark mining shafts, they used to bring canaries (those little birds) with them.
As coal mines became deeper, so did the problems of ventilation in the shafts.
Gas was a big issue in the mines, because without enough
oxygen in the air, the miners would perish. If there was any methane gas , the canaries would die and that made them a sad, low-tech early warning system.
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Features in Chrome 6
When companies make a new version of a software package, they always have to carefully consider what will be part of that version and what will be moved to the next version.
Google, in it’s process to create new versions of Chrome is no different. For version 6 a lot of stuff did not make the cut, but a lot of things did. So when you upgrade to Chrome 6 (when it is released) , you’ll have the following big features:
- Background image resampling – when resizing images on a page, this is done multicore from now , which will speed up page loads
- Synchronization of browser history – sync your history across multiple browsers
- Faster SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
- Extensions Sync – synchronize extensions across machines for the same user
- Consolidated menu button – page buttons and tool
One of the biggest features missing from Chrome 6 for the final release is the popular native client. This feature would enable applications in the browser to run as fast as they would on the local computer. Think of games and/or 3D applications. This has been pushed to 7 becuase of, among others, problems with the Mac OS X sandbox.
Another major feature missing is HTML 5 fullscreen video. HTML 5 video is poised to overthrow flash in the online streaming video arena, however this will take a few years yet. No need to hurry there.
All in all Chrome 6 will be an even better browser experience than we already have with 5, so I for one, can’t wait!
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FireFox 4 is coming; is Chrome being...
One of the great features Chrome is actually something that one should expect from any software; it’s light and not killing your computer because it uses tons and tons of memory. Although you would like any application in the world to have the same characteristics, Chrome has been very kind to my Macbook, unlike safari and, much worse, FF 3.
With the beta release of Firefox 4 something else can be seen; it’s fast, it’s not a hog anymore. It’s actually, dare I say it, nice. But not much more than that. For me it has been crashing during some tests so I’m not going to swap out my trusty Chrome just yet. Personally I had been a Firefox fan for years and it was hard for me to part with it; Chrome still has quirks I cannot really get used to. This new version seems to be a lot better than the previous ones and I got a feeling of nostalgia trying it.
New things include a better download manager, App Tabs (which is something like pinned tabs in Chrome) and easier working with images; all quite nice features. Especially the download manager is something which now is miles ahead of the one in Chrome.
We’ll write a shootout when the final version has been released. Until then; do you think you’ll try it or that you’ll even switch to it?
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