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Posts Tagged ‘Chrome OS’

Chrome OS pre-beta available

By Bilal Sulehri • Nov 21st, 2009 • Category: Technology

The launching of much awaited Chrome OS is still some time away. But gdgt.com has compiled a download-able Chrome OS.

After Google announced the availability of the Chrome OS / Chromium OS source code, one of engineers (Jon Ursenbach) at gdgt.com, immediately got to work on compiling the code, trying to see if he could get [...]



Google Says Mobile Web Apps Will Win In The Long Haul

By Sharafat • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Native Apps, or Web Apps? It’s the great debate of the mobile world right now, essentially fueling the platform wars from behind the scenes. Palm took the Web App route with the Pre and webOS, though with the SDK just now available to all its a bit too early to gauge that decision. The iPhone [...]



Tips for Google Chrome OS

By Sharafat • Jul 18th, 2009 • Category: Technology

We’ve been sitting things out today as our brothers at TC pant over ChromeOS, the latest OS based on Linux to impress, however lightly, upon the synapses of our country’s journalistic elite. ChromeOS can’t beat anything. In fact suggesting that ChromeOS will beat Windows or even OS X is like expecting Coby to come up [...]



FlyChat

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jul 18th, 2009 • Category: Technology

I sat down thinking I was going to write about how FlyChat, a new iPhone app, is kind of creepy. Then I realized it’s actually a lot like Twitter in some regards. And that’s not to say that Twitter isn’t creepy in some ways. But it’s an accepted form of creepy. FlyChat, however, isn’t just [...]



Google Chrome + Gears : I dont Need Windooze

By Sharafat • Jul 16th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Well strip out the windows, have a personal machine, personal  in the real sense and enjoy the computing. Take back your machine from the Micro$oft and that is courtesy to another giant and future monopolistic (perhaps) Google. Their new browser, Google Chrome OS has all the bells, whistles, ammo and weapons and smoke to blow [...]



Introduction to Google Chrome OS

By Sharafat • Jul 15th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Google Chrome OS is a project by Google to develop a light computer operating system devoted to using the World Wide Web. Announced on July 7, 2009, it is based on Google’s Chrome web browser and the Linux kernel. It will initially be targeted at netbooks, and is set to be released during the second [...]