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Notion Ink Adam Tablet Shows Off Its Specs

Daniel Cawrey — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:27:27 +0000

We listed the Indian-designed Adam tablet by Notion Ink as an intriguing dark horse candidate in the future Chrome OS lineup, mainly because it was just different in terms of design and its unique Pixel Qi display. Now, Lilliputing has reported that the company’s website has been revamped; with it comes full-on specifications on this tablet, which is expected to be released later this year initially with Android.

Among some of the technical highlights, the Notion Ink will have a dual core ARM processor with NVIDIA graphics, either 16 or 32 GB of internal storage and wireless connectivity options that include 3G, WLAN and Bluetooth. Pixel Qi, which allows the backlight to be shut off to conserve battery as well as reduce glare, is optional. The tablet also has a 3.2 MP camera and all the standard ports that a PC has.

Here’s hoping that the Adam Ink enters the Chrome OS tablet race sooner rather than later, based on design alone.

thechromesource Daily: Links for 8/2/10

Daniel Cawrey — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:36:05 +0000

The Chromium Blog has officially announced the emergence of the Canary version of Chrome browser.

Google’s strategy to thwart Bing is apparently to use its best features in its own search engine.

Digitimes is reporting that many PC manufacturers are looking to ARM-Android combinations for new devices.

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington reports that Facebook has secured copies of Google’s social strategy documents.

The market share for Google’s Mobile Search is almost at an astounding 100% according to data collected from StatCounter.

thechromesource Daily: Links for 7/23/10

Daniel Cawrey — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:57:21 +0000

A new version of Chrome will be coming every six weeks from here on out.

Our pal Charbax has the inside scoop on Microsoft’s new ARM license.

This will make your day I swear; it’s about the LAPD’s concern over moving to Google Apps.

Is Google really all that threatening? CNN says “they’re no product killer”.

One of the many Wired blogs seems to realize that Chrome version 6 is right around the corner.

thechromesource Daily: Links for 6/14/10

Daniel Cawrey — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:33:25 +0000

Asus is working on an ARM tablet that will run either Android or Chrome OS and will be released by its AGAiT subsidiary.

A Google Executive has thrown in his opinion on the AT&T limits on data the company is imposing.

It appears that a Google Music service could be coming this fall, with some exciting features to compete with Apple.

Mobile devices that blur the line between smartphone and computer heat up the competition between Qualcomm and Intel.

Google sure does have a lot of money in its coffers to invest in or acquire companies with.

Marvell Talks Cloud Computing, Chrome OS

Daniel Cawrey — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:53:53 +0000

At Computex, I had the opportunity to talk to Bou Chung Lin, VP & GM of Taiwan Operations for Marvell. While we were going though an overview of the company’s offerings, we got on the subject of cloud computing and Chrome OS. Here’s a quick clip of his response to my questions regarding this.

We know that Marvell has been working on an ARM-based Chromium OS build, as our pal Charbax over at ARMDevices.net showed us earlier this year when the company showed it off running on their Armada 510 processor at CES in Las Vegas.

It will be interesting to see what will happen to Chrome OS in terms of using an ARM based solution versus an x86 one. I’ve heard rumors that Intel is readying a rival to ARM-based solutions, or perhaps start making their own ARM licensed product.

There is no doubt they are going to need to do something after some of the things that I have seen coming from ARM processors comprised of multiple cores that divvy up the duties for a device to separately process system, video and audio functions for mobile devices.

Freescale Semiconductor Working on Chrome OS

Daniel Cawrey — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:10:06 +0000

The folks at Freescale Semiconductor were kind enough to invite us to their offices yesterday in Taipei to show off the fact that they are actively working on Chrome OS for ARM processors.

I learned a lot during my time at Freescale, and I now better understand that it is taking a good deal of work to port Chromium over to the ARM architecture as opposed to x86. They had a version of Chromium running on their iMX515 processor that was from last year’s Google open source build.

I happened to have the latest spring release of Chromium on a USB drive in my bag while I was there. However, the build that I had was specifically for x86 and the reality is that a lot of work has to go into making Chromium compatible with ARM’s low power, mobile specific platform.

Here are some pictures that they allowed me to take, giving an indication that they are working closely with Google to ensure that Chrome OS will not just run on Intel processors. My time at the Freescale office in Taiwan yesterday gives me an indication that there will probably be ARM devices running Chrome OS in the first quarter of 2011.

More Chrome OS news will be coming in the closing days of Computex, keep checking our RSS feed or follow us on @thechromesource if you’re a Twitter addict like I am.

Google VP: Chrome OS Release in Q4

Daniel Cawrey — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:17:53 +0000

Speaking today at the Computex Cloud Computing forum, Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai said that Chrome OS will be on the market in the fourth quarter of 2010. The Cloud Computing Forum is featuring executives from Google, ARM and Quanta Computers.

Computex has been mostly focused on Microsoft products that are on display.

When asked about the Chrome vs. Android debate, Mr. Pichai said that providing open source platforms will allow the market to make the best determination about what operating system will work best in the mass market. It’s pretty clear that Android has really taken off, it will be interesting to see how Chrome OS will develop.

thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/13/10

Daniel Cawrey — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:26:02 +0000

The Chromium Blog has a sneak peak at how their Native Client software development kit will allow for development of Chrome applications.

ARMDevices speculates that the Native Client SDK will allow complex web applications to run on ARM processors.

ReadWriteWeb has an article out that is about Mozilla’s plug-in checker, which now works with all browsers.

It’s clear that Google Apps plans to offer more than just the document and spreadsheet package common with productivity suites.

Those behind the Linux-based Ubuntu OS are contemplating switching from Firefox as the default browser over to Chromium.

thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/8/10

Daniel Cawrey — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:21:20 +0000

ARM has created a Motorola Droid robot using Lego’s Mindstorm that is able to solve a Rubik’s Cube in twenty-five seconds.

Web document company Scribd, which embeds PDF files on web pages to keep documents secure, is moving from Flash to HTML5.

Chromium’s O3D technology will be moving from a plug-in to a JavaScript library, mainly because of the recent speed improvements.

Google has invested in Invidi, a TV advertising platform startup company and they plan work together selling ads on DISH Network programming.

KMWorld has a good article talking about how Google’s community fiber project is a great step for them to get into the enterprise market.

thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/6/10

Daniel Cawrey — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:22:53 +0000

More Google services will be integrated with a single sign on, according to the Google Enterprise Blog.

The highly anticipated Google I/O developer conference May 19-20 will have its keynote presentations streamed live on YouTube.

ARM marketing vice president Ian Drew says that the delay in optimizing Flash for mobile devices has stalled the market to some degree.

A new feature to Google Goggles now allows someone to capture text with their phone’s camera and have it translated.

Google is in an interesting battle with Blue Destiny Records over the legality of linking to copyrighted material.