Tag archive: Google Chrome OS

Google is getting a little legal turbulence before its Chromebook laptops even launch. The California based search giant is being sued by Salt Lake City-based ISYS Technologies over trademark infringement. ISYS claims it has the rights to “Chromium” and apparently all chromium derived names; Chromebook happens to be too similar. ISYS Technologoies is pushing a Utah district court to stop Google and its various partners, including Amazon.com,… Read More

Google is reportedly hosting an event that promises “exciting news about Chrome” and, according to Engadget, that means an official unveiling of its Chrome OS netbook. Earlier rumors of a launch in November have already fallen through, but a launch in just days would coincide with Google's latest update to Chrome. The netbook itself purports to have an interesting list of features, most notably a Cloud-based operating system,… Read More

This month, Google will launch its smartbook, a laptop-like product running Chrome OS that will compete with Windows netbooks, MacBooks, the iPad and a variety of struggling Android-based tablets. By bringing this out in the critical fourth quarter and creating further doubt around the Android platform for tablets, Google has created a huge Christmas present for Steve Jobs. The same decision undoubtedly has the executives that backed Android for… Read More

Little more than a year after Google first lifted the veil on its plans to challenge Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X with Chrome OS, the first hardware to support it is finally ready for launch. The Taiwanese paper DigiTimes reports that Google will release its own Chrome OS notebook, manufactured by Inventec, later this month. Acer and HP will also release Chrome OS notebooks in December. November puts Google right on track for the “late… Read More

Considering you can already hack the iPad to run Flash and Windows 95, it should come as little surprise that Chromium OS has finally boosted its way over the fence and into Apple’s walled garden. YouTube user Hexxeh, who regularly cooks up custom builds of Google’s operating system over at his own site, posted video of the iPad apparently running Chromium OS, the open-source version of Chrome OS. The demo depicts the “Chromepad” running the… Read More

Google’s open-source Chrome OS is expected to release before the end of 2010, but eager adopters can get a preview of it now. You’ll first have to install VMware, which is a virtualization software that will allow you to run Chrome OS from within Windows, Mac OSX , or Linux. Google released the open-source code for developers, but for those of you who just want to give the OS a test run, you can find a virtual machine image here that will run… Read More

If you didn’t hear about the Google Chrome OS (operating system) preview today, don’t feel out of touch, the event was rather low key.  The Chrome OS, an open source operating system based on Linux and Google’s Chrome browser, is still in its early stages of development and apparently won’t launch until the end of 2010. The big news today was that