Chrome Notebooks – A New Thought
You remember how Apple paraded the Ipad as ‘revolutionary’ and ‘magical’? How about ‘post-PC’? Well, not to be outdone, Google released a quirky little ad just after the Google I/O Keynote today and of-course they are showing of their new baby, the Chrome Notebook. They won’t go as far as saying that it’s ‘magical’, rather Google went for a more light yet potent slogan:
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 08:32 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla 
7 Comments Angry Birds To Make A Début On Chrome Web Store!
It has just been announced at the I/O event (which is currently going on) that google has partnered with Rovio to bring the popular Angry Birds game to the Chrome Web Store. The App was built using webGL and it also supports Canvas. The game will also come in full HD on for users who have hardware acceleration in their browser!
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 05:12 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
1 Comment Chrome Web Store – A Success
Google has just announced that the Chrome Web Store has been a success thus far since it’s initial launch. Speaking just a few minutes ago, Google Product manager mentioned that since the launch of the Web Store, Google can report that users are now spending twice as much in App within the USA.
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 05:05 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
2 Comments Chrome Browser Hits 160 million Users!
The Tuesday session of Google I/O 2011 is underway and Google is gloating in the success of Chrome (Browser). According to Sundar Pichai (Product VP) the browser has now hit over 160 million active users. This is more that double the growth since Google I/O 2011 when the browser was at 70 million active users.
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 04:46 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
12 Comments Google To Announce Chrome OS/Notebooks Today!
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for; Google will announce their $20 per month Chrome Notebook subscription service later on today. Alongside, a number of Chrome Notebooks will either be announced or showcased. It is now more than certain that Samsung will make a showing with their much talked about ‘ZGB’ and ‘Alex’ notebooks. Google is also set to announce the final timeline of Chrome OS’ release whcih will likely see Chrome Notebooks going on sale as early as June this year.
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 12:44 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
2 Comments How To Follow The Google I/O (2011) Events
Google I/O 2011 promises to be big this year. Thousands of delegates will cpnverge on the Google Campus in California for a 2 day event starting tomorrow and ending on Wednesday. For us, this is an exciting time as it is widely expected that this year’s event will be the launchpad of Chrome OS.
Monday, May 9th, 2011 10:13 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
4 Comments Chrome OS Netbooks Coming Soon: $10-$20 per month?
Neowin reported some exciting news yesterday which most of us have been waiting to hear for the last year. Not only are they claiming that Chrome OS devices (probably netbooks to start off with) will begin shipping this June/July , they are also suggesting that Google will sell them on a subscription service:
Thursday, April 21st, 2011 08:51 am GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
3 Comments Weekly Recap: 4/8/2011
Here’s your weekly update on news you may have missed: -Hotpot, the recommendation engine for places, is now becoming a core offered product called Google Places. -Google looks to make searching for flights easier next it seems. -Rumors are starting to fly about Google TV merging with Android Honeycomb 3.0 (tablets) and Gingerbread 2.3 (phones). -Youtube is being overhauled to …
Saturday, April 9th, 2011 02:48 am GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
3 Comments HP Joins the Google Cloud Print
HP recently announced support for their printers on the Google Cloud Print. Users will be able to associate their printers to their Google Account through the printer’s unique email address and from there print items from either computers or mobile devices. What this allows HP Printer users to do is bypass drivers and additional software, PC connections, and other setting …
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 07:18 am GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
2 Comments Weekly Recap: 4/1/2011
Google has been pushing out some crazy changes lately. Here’s a look at some of them. Gmail Motion is a system that allows you to write emails via motion through a webcam. Google Docs is also implementing motion into how you control your files in the future. Autocomplete has been around for a while now in the search function and …
Friday, April 1st, 2011 08:20 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
0 Comments Latest from the Lab: +1
Google has recently added another feature to their optional labs, +1, for websites and advertisements in their search results. It works like the ‘Like’ button for Facebook by pulling in information that you and/or your friends might find useful based on other +1s. Google hopes the added feature will result in better search results for users. The +1 feature has …
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 08:46 pm GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
0 Comments Chrome Web Store vs Mac App Store
Back in January, the Mac App Store was beaming over having 1000 apps available and over 1 million downloads in a month. At that time, we compared the one month performance of the Chrome Web Store to it’s Mac rival.
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 09:25 am GMT +00:00 by
Nigel Mabandla
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