Stories about Chrome OS

Is Google bringing Android to your desktop PC?
Most PCs and notebooks don't feature touchscreens, but if trackpads were to be mapped to replicate touchscreen-style controls... Android might just have a new frontier to conquer.
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Hands on with the first Chromebook
We get hands on with Samsung’s Series 5 3G, the first Chromebook on the market and the international role model for Google's ambitious new PC landscape.
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Rethinking the operating system: Chrome OS explained
The heart of a Chromebook is its Chrome operating system, so what kind of experience does Chrome offer exactly?
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Chromebook weirdness
Using a Chromebook for the first time is quite disconcerting – things you take for granted aren’t there.
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The Chromebook: this week we assess the pros and cons
No viruses. No bloatware. No complexity. Computing has suddenly got easier, because the PC made for cloud computing has arrived. This week we assess this radical new computer.
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Top 10 weird things about using a Google Chromebook
Nothing will prepare you for the disorientation you experience when you fire up a Chromebook for the first time. Here's 10 surprises we got exploring the cloud-connected notebook.
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Meet Google's Chromebook: designed to relegate Windows to the scrap heap
The search giant's manoeuvres this week with Chrome OS -- and especially the advent of Chromebooks -- indicate Google is intent on redefining the PC desktop OS as we know it.
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Chrome OS, not Android, for tablets?
If Britain's Sunday Times is to be believed, Google is aiming its forthcoming Chrome OS at tablets, rather than trying to expand Android out into a tablet-sized computing OS.
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Acer says Chrome netbook is still on the roadmap
Acer denies reports it will launch a Chrome netbook at next week’s Computex show in Taiwan, but says it is still “working very closely with Google” on the project...
Is Google prepping an Android-powered gPad tablet?
Having already released its own Nexus One smartphone, and seeing the iPad’s rapturous reception, Google is said to be developing the ‘gPad’ – a touchscreen slate running Android.
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CrunchPad crashes to the ground
Just two weeks away from launch where it would be shown running Windows 7 and Google Chrome OS, the long-awaited and highly anticipated CrunchPad goes belly-up...
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Google tipped to release Chrome OS this week
The lightweight open source operating system is expected to make its debut sometime this week, with ‘out of the box’ support for a wide range of Atom netbooks expected.
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Chrome to get cloud-based bookmark sync
In a hint of thing to come for the OS, Google will add automatic bookmark and password synchronisation to its Chrome browser, based on a Google Account and ‘push’ technology.
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Dell is hot on Moblin, lukewarm on Chrome
Dell is “working very closely” with Intel and Canonical on potential Moblin products and also plans to evaluate Chrome, although “there’s still lots of questions about the OS"
Will Gazelle gazump Google OS?
Microsoft's plans for domination of the netbook market face a growing challenge from Google's pipsqueak OS
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