SlashGear:
Week in review time again, here we go! The Lenovo IdeaPad Pineview netbook hit the FCC Monday. The FCC is one of the most prolific leaker of gadgets and gear around and we love them for it. The CrunchPad is now said to be steamrolling toward a launch and may have a sponsorship deal in place. Word was a few weeks back that t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the (Read More)
SlashGear:
Google has more than emphasized that its Chrome operating system will be super speedy; it will boot in only seven seconds and surfing the web will be just be quicker. The irony is that you will actually have to wait for Google’s OS to arrive and for a pretty long time in the technology world. After giving a preview yesterd (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The highly anticipated news conference was tracked all over the web, liveblogged by technology sites, and Twittered so much that it's sti (Read More)
: What do you mean "was"? It's not even out for a year. This doesn't make sense to me. It's a preview. They did you a favor by playing show and tell. Patience. Also note that Sarah freelances for Microsoft.
Wired: Gadget Lab:
Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That’s what Google should’ve done with its open-source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday.Instead, Google is positioning Google Chrome OS against Microsoft with a lightweight OS shipping with netbooks next year. Chrome OS will functio (Read More)
Liliputing:
Brad’s written before about the Asus EEE 1005HR – it’s the first of the 10" Seashell netbooks to feature a high-resolution 1366×768 display. Other than that, the hardware under the hood remains the same as its siblings: an Atom N280 processor, 1GB DDR2 ram, 250GB SATA hard drive, 802.11b/g/n wireless, bluetooth, and a .3 me (Read More)
Liliputing:
There’s been a bit of confusion about Google’s new operating-system-that’s-really-just-a-browser. While Google did announce yesterday that the OS would be designed for upcoming “netbooks” with larger screens and keyboards and solid state disks, the most important thing Google announced was that the project was open source. (Read More)
SlashGear:
We’re only now seeing the first Pineview netbooks – based on Intel’s next-gen Atom platform – begin to show themselves, but details are already emerging about the silicon company’s intentions for the platform after that. Come 2011, say Fudzilla, Intel are expected to out Cedarview, a 32nm processor with a new, DDR3-compati (Read More)
SlashGear:
In mid-October Verizon announced that it was adding the HP Mini 110 netbook to its line of subsidized netbooks. Today AT&T has announced that it is also adding the Mini 110 to its own line of subsidized netbooks. The two machines are identical and the only thing that separates them is the network they run on.The AT&T Mini 1 (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
When Apple dropped support for Atom processors in OS X 10.6.2, effectively killing Hackintosh netbooks, we knew that somebody would fix things. We didn’t know that it would happen so fast.Just over a week after the update, Russian hacker “Tea” has made a patched kernel specifically for the Atom CPU. Simply copying this to t (Read More)
Liliputing:
Google held a press event this afternoon to talk about the company’s upcoming Google Chrome operating system. Here’s the short version: It’s a light weight OS built to support the Google Chrome web browser. The only apps that you’ll be able to install will be web apps, although Google is working to ensure that Chrome OS can (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it's different than other operating systems. Here are the features, functions, and screenshots you'll want to know about. Want the short version, sketched out on a notepad, uploaded as a video, and narrated with a caref (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
While you won’t be able to sense it at first, expect to feel a high frequency buzz from the direction of Redmond in the next few months. That’s the Windows 7 and Office group fearing the rise of a new juggernaut on low-cost computing hardware, ChromeOS.ChromeOS may not be powerful, it may not play Far Cry and it may not run (Read More)