Forget Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Google just announced perhaps the best sale of the entire Christmas season, at least as far as electronics and computers are concerned.
Google’s Chrome OS has always been about the web — indeed, the first version of the operating system was literally just a Chrome web browser that filled the screen. But with the latest developer channel update, the OS has received …
Mark Miller has one of those hot and cold jobs. He is the director of marketing at Intel for netbooks and tablets. Tablets, of course, are hot. But netbooks are cold. Still, in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show …
Netbooks, once the cheap portables spotted at coffee shops everywhere, have become so uncool that they are near extinction. Case in point: Dell is saying sayonara to its consumer netbook business.
Dell will stop producing its Inspiron Mini line of …
Google announced via Twitter on Thursday that its Chromebook laptops are now available for pre-order from Amazon and Best Buy. The half dozen models that can be ordered are manufactured by Samsung and Acer and are expected to ship on …
Google is set to unveil a Chrome laptop “student package” tomorrow at its I/O developer conference for $20 a month, an unnamed senior Google executive tells Forbes.
If true, the move has the potential to completely reshape the way consumers …
With Nokia moving to Windows Phone 7 and not looking back, there doesn’t seem to be much hope left for Intel’s MeeGo mobile platform — especially because there still aren’t any phones that use it.
But Valterri Halla, the Intel …
Motorola’s Atrix 4G was one of our favorite devices from the Consumer Electronics Show, primarily because it had the cool ability to turn into a full-fledged ultraportable laptop when plugged into its Laptop Dock. So it’s impressive just how quickly …
Goodbye netbook, hello tablet.
Taiwanese computer maker Acer is phasing out its netbook series of ultra-small computers with the forthcoming release of new Android tablets, which are due in the first half of 2011, according to a Computerworld report.
Acer’s …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Why Google needs the video digital-rights technology behind Netflix — Google recently announced that it has purchased Widevine, a …
Intel has quietly formed a new business unit dedicated to tablets and netbooks, the New York Times reports.
It will be spearheaded by Douglas L. Davis, the current head of Intel’s embedded and communications group. Obviously, it’s meant to help …
Netbooks with Google’s Chrome OS operating system won’t be available to most consumers until the middle of next year, but company executives walked through many of the features at a press event today, where they also announced a pilot program …
Tech pundits (including me) have been wondering about how Google’s Chrome OS will compare to Android and how the two operating systems fit into Google’s broader product strategy. Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management, took another stab at …
Google offered a flood of news about its Chrome OS netbook operating system today, but it turns out that most consumers will have to wait until the middle of 2011 before they can buy a computer with Chrome OS installed.…
Here’s our review of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Amazon continues tight-lipped policy with WikiLeaks takedown — WikiLeaks, the nonprofit site that publishes leaked government documents, was booted …
It’s been a long stretch, but Google is nearing the finish line with its Chrome OS netbook operating system. The company sent out invitations today to a Chrome event on Tuesday, December 7th, where it will launch the netbook, sources …
Hewlett-Packard may not have a permanent chief executive. But it hasn’t stopped launching loads of new products. Today, the company is taking the wraps off its fall line-up of consumer laptop and netbook computers.
The flagship is a 3D laptop…
Jolicloud, the netbook and web services-focused operating system by Netvibes founder Tariq Krim, has finally launched with an official version 1.0 release.
The Linux-based OS was originally announced in 2008 and has gone through extensive public and private testing since …
While our story on Acer unveiling Chrome OS devices at Computex, the big Taiwanese trade show for computer manufacturers, didn’t pan out the way our sources had led us to believe it would, we do know that Acer is hard …
A patent application filed by Sony depicts a folding two-screen device that can be held like a book, or typed on like a laptop.
The patent paperwork explicitly states that there are “first and second touchscreens,” that “the image of …
