Tag: CHROME OS

Google loves to make people solve puzzles. The company often posts them in obvious places for all the world to see, so it was a bit of a surprise when Sylvain Zimmer, and a few of his co-workers at music site Jamendo, spotted an equation hiding in the background of one of the new Chrome OS marketing videos. Zimmer immediately started trying to decipher and solve the lengthy string of symbols and ...

As if we hadn't already had enough Google news this week -- with Android Gingerbread, eBooks and the Nexus S hitting yesterday -- the Mountain View crew just served up a heaping helping of Chrome news. While updates to the Chrome browser look great, the new Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS led the event. Part of Google's push for an increasingly Web-centric computing experience, these products ...

While it still hasn't given a precise date, Google has come closer to specifying when Chrome OS will launch. According to an AFP report, the free operating system, which is based on Google's Chrome browser, will launch this autumn. Sundar Pichai, Google's VP of product management, recently revealed this information at CompuTex Taipei, an Asian trade show. "It's something which we are very excited ...

Though the Chromium OS team (the open source side of Google's Chrome OS project) posted these mockups on January 25 (it took until now for the blogosphere to take notice). One thing is clear, though: Chrome OS has the iPad in its sights. The concept images and video show what a multi-touch enabled Chrome OS might look like. While there is nothing truly Earth-shattering about the images, the ...

Yesterday, Google finally took the cover off Chrome OS and, in so doing, gave a bunch of foamy-mouthed tech journalists an idea of what to expect once consumers are able to get their hands on it late next year. There weren't many surprises in the announcement. Chrome OS is a tweaked Chrome browser running on top of a streamlined version of Linux -- exactly what most were expecting. We can already ...