Chrome OS tablet: ipad killer or bad idea?

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!

by Liz on
August 5th, 2010,
Category: Android, Chrome OS

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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A new Chrome os release every 6 weeks?

by Liz on
July 29th, 2010,
Category: Chrome OS

Geordi Laforge
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

by Liz on
July 26th, 2010,
Category: Chrome OS

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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Chrome OS ready for fall?

by Liz on
July 19th, 2010,
Category: Chrome OS

The programming boys at Google have recently made noticeable progress. The look and feel are simpler, cleaner and probably less process intensive than the previous versions. What’s more… Read the rest of this entry »

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World domination for Chrome?

by Liz on
July 14th, 2010,
Category: Chrome, Chrome OS

ABI Research reports that operating systems like Android and Chrome OS (meaning ofcourse the Linux kernel as well) will be dominant on non smart phones in 2015. If this will happen it is quite significant for Linux and for Chrome and Chrome OS. Devices like smart phones, but also netbooks, *Pads (non-Apple iPad pads which are coming out in big numbers this year) and others will run primarily on these ‘embedded’ operating systems.

As we know, Google will play a big part in this, because it’s Android OS is already getting huge market share and is growing faster than it’s competitors. It is obvious that users will run some form of the Chrome browser on those operating systems which means even more mindshare for Google. That ofcourse next to the enormous uptake of the Chrome browser on Windows and Mac OS X (I cannot imagine using anything else myself anymore).

Chrome OS is not taking off yet, but Android is and that promises a lot for the future. Google will have it’s tentacles into hardware companies and will use that power to push both OSs into the market. Interesting times ahead!