Tag Archives : Chrome OS

Google has introduced push alert support for apps in Google Chrome browser or Chrome OS. The protocol called Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome is designed to let apps receive notifications from outside Chrome and respond to them more efficiently. Earlier apps that wanted to respond to an outside trigger would have to keep checking back with a server, using more data and power. Now, developers can have [...]

Google on Thursday announced the Chromebook Pixel, a flashier Chrome OS running laptop with improved hardware, software, and design. Chromebook Pixel is a 13.3 inch device and has a 2560×1700 display that would rival Apple’s retina display MacBooks. The screen packs 239 pixels per inch and will be touch-sensitive. Other hardware specs include an Intel Core i5 processor clocked at 1.8GHz, integrated [...]

Google is working with hardware manufacturers to release new Chromebook laptops that will have touch capabilities too just like Ultrabooks according to a report by Wall Street Journal. The reports observes  that if new Chromebooks are released with touchscreens, software developers will have to make changes in order for their Chrome OS apps to work with touch-based hardware. It’s almost certain [...]

Google Chrome Google’s  annual developer conference held in May bought news of  an all new web apps store for its Chrome web browser. Chrome Web Store is designed to be a central location for buying and selling HTML5-based web apps.  In that direction, Google has launched the first developer preview, developers can access the developer preview of the Chrome Web Store through Google Code Labs. Information [...]

Chrome OS prototype Google Inc’s Chrome OS, the highly awaited upcoming open source operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications including Google TV will be launching officially in the last quarter of this year. Google’s VP of product management, Sundar Pichai, made this announcement at the COMPUTEX technology forums event . Chrome OS, announced by Google  [...]