First Chrome OS desktop PC will ship in July
As the U.S. arrival date approaches for the first Chromebooks from Samsung and Acer, hardware maker Xi3 on Friday announced its own entrant in the form of a desktop PC running Chrome OS.
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Kill your browser's address bar? Pros and cons
Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are working on deemphasizing your browser's address bar to maximize screen space and put the focus on web apps instead of websites.
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Chrome, Firefox experiment with hidden URL bars
Netbook and tablet users looking for more screen space to display content from their favorite websites are getting some help from a pair of popular Internet browsers.
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Opinion: Chromebooks are doomed to fail
A month from today, the Chromebooks from Samsung and Acer will hit the street. Google hopes to revolutionize mobile computing and free us from the shackles of the traditional PC experience, but the Chromebook is going to fizzle.
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Battle of the Chromebooks: Acer vs. Samsung
Google's Chromebooks made the biggest splash this week at the company's developers conference Google I/O. Both Acer and Samsung will be the first notebook manufacturers to sell the laptops based on Google's own Chrome OS. Chromebook laptops are a radical departure from traditional laptops and instead of relying on local storage they will depend heavily on cloud services for document and media storage along with security and software updates. But what sets Acer's Chromebook from Samsung's?
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Does Chromebook hardware-as-a-service make sense?
Google made an interesting hardware-as-a-service proposition to businesses Wednesday with the introduction of the Chromebook. The Web-centric and laptop-like device will launch next month with support from vendor partners Samsung and Acer.
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Chrome tips users to dangerous Windows downloads
Google on Tuesday said it will add malware download warnings to its Chrome browser.
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Google I/O: Will We Get to See Google TV?
Google may be getting ready to launch its fabled Google TV set-top box during the company's Google I/O developer conference on Thursday, according to the latest rumors. The search giant may also make an Android announcement, possibly introducing Android 2.2, the next iteration of Google's smartphone OS.
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Google unveils mobile search facelift for iPhones, Android
A day after Google revamped its search results page, the company has revealed similar changes to the search results available to Android and iPhone smartphone users.
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IE8, iPhone will fall first day of hacking contest, predicts organizer
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, not Apple's Safari, will be the first browser to fall in next week's Pwn2Own hacking challenge, the contest organizer said today.
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Google upgrades Mac Chrome beta, patches critical Windows bugs
Google has updated the Mac beta of its Chrome browser, adding the support for extensions that had previously been available only in a less stable "developer" build.
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IE more popular than you think: Researcher
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is used much more often than most assume, a researcher has asserted.
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Chrome sets browser security standard, says expert
All browser makers should take a page from Google's Chrome and isolate untrusted data from the rest of the operating system, a noted security researcher said today.
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Google Chrome for Mac: First Impressions
Google has finally released the beta version of its Chrome browser for Mac. As expected, the new browser is lacking some features that its Windows counterpart has, such as bookmark sync, a bookmark manager, and offline capability.
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Google's Chrome OS Aims to Speed Up Netbooks
A few weeks ago, Google unveiled what it's hoping will be the new standard in netbook operating systems: Chrome OS. Based on Linux, Chrome OS is a fast, low-overhead OS that boots directly into a Web browser to get you online with as little waiting as possible. We've been running an early version of Chrome OS on our test systems since Google released the code to the open-source community. Here's a peek at what you can expect to see when preinstalled systems debut for the 2010 holiday season.
