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Acer Likely to be One of First Chrome OS Manufacturers
Posted on 24. Nov, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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It was tablet glory for Acer yesterday in New York as they unveiled a lineup of slates and a smartphone running Android. Those devices won’t be released until 2011, but more importantly the company did do a bit of talking about Chrome OS. A company official told those at the press conference that Acer will have a Chrome OS netbook available next year.
Verizon to Bring 4G to 38 Markets Before End of 2010
Posted on 07. Oct, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Lilliputing is reporting that Verizon announced on a conference call yesterday they will be rolling out 4G wireless in many larger U.S. cities before the end of this year. A race between wireless operators is going on to roll out fast 4G data speeds that will allow mobile devices to consume things like streaming music and video. Download speeds will be between 5Mbps and 12Mbps.
Companies such as Clear and Sprint are working together and so far they have the most 4G coverage in the country. AT&T has improved its service over the past year, spending billions to accommodate the gaggle of iPhone users surfing the web and so forth.
With all of this money being thrown at wireless networks, it becomes easy to question the validity of traditional broadband network service in the home. Comcast has to be a bit concerned when you consider the simplicity of an always-connected device versus a home broadband service that requires a modem, cabling and a router.
Unreleased Acer Netbook Shows Up in Chromium Bug Reports
Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 7 Comments
A blog that is based on Acer netbooks has put together a post about some bug reporting that has showed up on the Chromium site referencing an unknown Acer model dubbed “ZGA”. According to the article, it appears that this runs concurrent with other device model numbers that come from Acer. While I couldn’t find the name of the writer on this blog its author, “Macles”, seems to know a lot about computer manufacturing.
Based on the hardware specifications in the bug reports, this netbook would have some different hardware than traditional Windows-based devices. The processor is an Intel Atom N450 1.66 GHz, it has a SanDisk pSSD-S2 8GB, 1.3 megapixel webcam and an ambient light sensor.
Despite these specs, now that the Atom N550 dual core is shipping, one would think that they would swap the processor from something newer, but it all depends on price points. The article further speculates that this ZGA netbook could concievably ship in September, based on the timeline for testing in the bug reports.
It’s been known for some time that Acer has ambitiously planned to enter the Chrome OS market, with an executive boasting that the company would sell a million of them this year. So if that’s going to happen, they better release one pretty soon.
thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/17/10
Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Although I’ve been unable to find an official link from Acer, Engadget reports that the company will not launch a Chrome OS netbook soon.
YouTube is now five years old; it serves up more than two billion videos to users everyday.
Scroogle now has its own Scraper Extension in the Chrome directory; allowing you scraped searches anytime you want.
Could Google TV be “the biggest single change in television since it went color”, as Intel chief Paul Otellini has been quoted?
The Android Market has had its website updated a bit, possibly in anticipation of Google I/O on Wednesday.
