The WSJ reports that Hiroshi Lockheimer, Vice President of engineering for the Android OS, is now in charge of the engineering team over at Chrome OS. … Read more…
Since Andy Rubin went off to play with robots, and Sundar Pichai took over running the Android team, a Chrome-Android convergence has been rumored. Google I/O 2014 … Read more…
I think we’ve all secretly wanted to watch a movie or two on Netflix that didn’t look so hot. Most of the time we stop … Read more…
VentureBeat is reporting that new studies show a drop in several types of Chromecast streaming. Even with everybody streaming video more than ever, it seems that traffic is on the decline for Google’s plucky little HDMI dongle. It looks like some of the early buzz has softened for some users.
The New HP Chromebox is now shipping in the USA and that means there will be a lot more of Google’s Operating System in the wild. Since making their announcement in February, HP has been gearing up for the launch of this product. Classified as an ultra small form factor, the base model HP Chromebox sports an Intel® Celeron® 2955U Processor clocking in at 1.4 Ghz, support for dual displays, 2 GB of RAM, and a 16GB SSD for storage.
The wizards over on the Google Chrome team are at it again with yet another “experiment”, this time it’s “Spell Up”. A voice powered browser based “game” that helps you learn how to be a better speller. Check out the video after the break it’s full of awesome!
ghacks is reporting that Mozilla will be implementing EME’s (Encrypted Media Extensions) into their Firefox web browser after resisting the idea for quiet some time now. With the web changing rapidly and new technologies, such as HTML 5, being adopted, companies like Microsoft, Google and Netflix needed to find a way to allow users to play DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected content. Encrypted Media Extensions were the solution they turned to. Mozilla has a history of open source and trying to keep things user controlled, so you can imagine their resistance. Here’s a little excerpt from the ghacks article, which explains this much better than I could. It’s really a great read so be sure to hit the link to read it in its entirety.
It will come as no surprise to anyone who follows me on Techaeris when I say that I love the Google Chromecast. Earlier this year, I wrote an article as to whether the $35 dongle mattered and why; in short, I believe it matters because the proliferation of the device and an open SDK is helping Google create an industry standard for casting content to screens in a market where others have had either marginal success or failed.
The Chrome team has been hard at work preparing a new feature for the Google Chrome browser. We’ve all run into the issue of having … Read more…
