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Article | 14/05/2011 Google Chromebook's auto-update scheme will be hard sell
Consumers may love that Google's Chromebooks will automatically deliver security updates, but company administrators will resist it tooth and nail, ex...
Article | 16/05/2011 Opinion: Chromebooks are doomed to fail
A month from today, the Chromebooks from Samsung and Acer will hit the street. Google hopes to revolutionize mobile computing and free us from the sha...
Article | 12/05/2011 Google 'Chromebook' focuses on enterprise push
Google took another step toward the enterprise this week when executives unveiled the "Chromebook," a notebook PC that could boost both its new operat...
Article | 13/05/2011 Does Chromebook hardware-as-a-service make sense?
Google made an interesting hardware-as-a-service proposition to businesses Wednesday with the introduction of the Chromebook. The Web-centric and lapt...
Article | 12/05/2011 Google launches Chrome OS, says Windows is 'torturing users'
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are "torturing users" at Google's Chrome OS launch event Wednesd...
Article | 12/05/2011 Google: Chrome OS could someday duel with Android
While Google currently does not see any conflict between its Android vision for tablets and smartphones and its Chrome OS cloud-based laptop vision, a...
Article | 12/05/2011 Google Chrome notebooks due in June from Acer, Samsung
Samsung and Acer will begin selling notebook PCs running Google's Chrome OS in June, as Google presses ahead with its project to position this new ope...
Article | 11/05/2011 Acer, former CEO spar over declining fortunes
Acer on Wednesday charged its former chief executive officer, Gianfranco Lanci, with performance issues, after he had criticized the company's resista...
Article | 4/05/2011 Dymocks taps Android for e-book, tablet move
National book retailer Dymocks has partnered with Acer to offer Android-powered tablets as a vehicle for e-book sales along with a new Android app.
Article | 29/04/2011 Apple fourth-largest PC vendor with iPad, Canalys says
Research firm Canalys on Thursday said Apple was the world's fourth-largest PC maker during the first quarter, after adding the computer maker's iPad ...
Article | 28/04/2011 Acer expects tablets to help growth this year
Acer, the world's second largest PC maker, saw its revenue slump in the first quarter following a management shakeup and what it described as a season...
Article | 19/04/2011 Taiwan contract makers add to choices for end users
When it was founded in 1997, a Taiwanese firm with the drab, generic name High-Tech Computer did what almost everyone on the island does: It made its ...
Article | 16/04/2011 Android tablets undercutting iPad prices
In an effort to attract buyers away from Apple's iPad, device makers are setting starting prices of Android tablets to undercut iPad's US$499 entry-le...
Article | 8/04/2011 Acer's first Android 3.0 tablet priced at $449
Acer's first tablet based on Google's Android 3.0 OS will ship later this month for US$449, the company said Friday.
Article | 7/04/2011 Quake unlikely to raise prices, say Taiwanese PC makers
Taiwanese PC makers said on Thursday that product prices would hold steady this year despite disruptions to raw material supplies after the massive Ja...