Google Chrome OS Laptops Announced

Today, Google announced the new Google Chrome OS laptops and desktops.

Pictures of the 2 new laptops that have been announced that are going to be running Chrome OS.

These new laptops, dubbed "Chromebooks" by Google, are the new laptops that are going to be running Chrome OS.  Google has been known to have plans to unveil a line of Chrome laptops since they started sending out CR-48's, the prototype of the Chrome OS laptop concept, to beta testers.  There will be two models from Samsung and Acer, each including the Chrome OS, Wi-Fi, and the two that been unveiled so far will also include an HD webcam with a noise cancelling microphone.  The prices for these laptops start at $349 and go up from there to $499.

The current data options for the 3G Chromebooks.

Much like the CR-48, some of the Google Chromebook models from different manufacturers will include 3G from Verizon.  It is pay-as-you-go 3G starting with a completementary 100MB of data per month for free for two years like on the CR-48 laptops.  You can pay for more as you go along the paywall getting as low as $9.99 for a unlimited daypass and as high as $50 per month for 5GB of data on Verizon.  This is a good package for consumers that truely allows people to be connected to the cloud.  I'm also glad they threw in the free 100MB per month of data for these "Chromebooks."

What do you think of this? Post your thoughts in the comments.

-SuperPC

iOS and Android Over the Video Games Market

In the last years, we have seen some incredible games at the App Store from Apple and now we also have games at the Android Market from Google. But before that, we had great portable consoles such as the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP, and currently they continue their own way.

But now with these App Stores we have access to an easier world where with just a tap we can download an incredible game right from our smartphone. So, lets check these statistics.

Mobile analytics service Flurry Analytics has launched a study on the percentage of revenue from mobile platforms in the gaming industry based on 12,000 million records captured from 80,000 applications anonymously iOS and Android. Thedata show the remarkable growth can be seen in the graph you will find on theselines and if already in 2009 the iPhone OS at that time exceeded U.S. to the PSP with 19% versus 11% of the latter, the entry of Android and the evolution of iOS in 2010 further increases the difference.

Sales of games and Android iOS U.S. have increased during 2010 to reach 8% oftotal revenues estimated at 800 million dollars, most of which are the grace, asFlurry, games for iPhone. This cake does not include data for PC games, although these are estimated at 700 million, anything that smartphone and tablets have notalready left behind.

It is clear that 15% iOS and Android have been scratched in notebooks from Sony and Nintendo in 2010 was largely due to a combination of factors, including a family of devices they always have, with uninterrupted access to a growing catalog software with a very low cost or even free supported by advertising or purchasing systems within applications.

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My Love for Android and the Galaxy Tab

You all probably know I am somewhat of an Apple fan. After all, I was born and raised Apple. My dad had one when I was young, and it was the first computer I had ever used. I still own that same computer, mint condition and still working, today. However, the Apple orchard can become dull at times, especially if one has had the same apple juice year after year. So a month ago, I picked up the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

As a complete noob to Android, I found the Tab to be quite a fun device. I have seen reports lately of the Galaxy Tab and its sales rates, but I completely satisfied. I love the fact that the screen is seven inches, compared to the iPad's almost 10 inch screen. The Galaxy Tab has proven to be more portable when carrying it around for long periods of time. Back when I had an iPad, my hands would fatigue after about 10 minutes. With the Tab, it's lightweight and feels like I am carrying a small paperback book.

The interface itself is your typical run of the mill Android Froyo OS. Very impressive on a Tablet computer, just as it is on the smartphones. A lot of people complain about this, and I really can't find a legitimate reason why. After all, didn't Apple do the same?

The Android store is my only complaint. There are so many spammy and janky apps on there that you really have to be careful what you install. Also I've noticed there are a lot of Chinese knock-offs and poorly coded apps. The upside though is that if you buy an app and decide you don't like it, you can get a refund. And the fact that you can choose to bill paid apps to your phone bill is amazing.

I am very happy with Android, and more specifically, the Galaxy Tab and I don't care what the reports say. High return rates do not phase me. I love my device.

Eric Schmidt Stepping Down as Google CEO

Google announced today in its fourth quarter earnings report that Eric Schmidt will be stepping down as CEO for the company.

Google Tinkers with Sudoku

You know the drill. You’re walking home from work, stag, one evening, you, with those lean and shriveled thumbs from work, fiddle with your smartphone or the equivalent, catching up with breaking news from the technology section of the Grit. Then, by a very fortuitous chance, you notice the masthead denotes “Newt Gingrich joins in with Mark Fuhrman at the Algonquin Table, aptly relocated to the Apollo Theater.” You’re on pins and needles, trying to evade those lowlife human stories, but you are actually actuating an image of a moron who would pay for drive-thru burgers with a check. Then you find yourself subliminally rummaging through the web archives with a classic hunt and peck approach, which is endemic to skycaps with no arms. You’re there: “Google unveils a cutting-edge technology that solves any cryptic from the Mouse Trap!” 

Google has never lowballed me with underwhelming awe, and its latest implementation that solves Sudoku enclosed me in a cage with Christine O'Donnell trying to dabble me into witchcraft, making my cranial ridge burst. I’m astonished. Sudoku puzzles have never shone the come-hither look straight at my face, but now I am utterly sold. Sudoku beckons. I’ve been a rabid fan of Sudoku since the roll out of that feature on Google Mobile (iPhone), or Goggles, and I am glad to say I’ve never been so excited about new technology since Sinbad. 

The new feature is offered gratis, and is available for phones that have Google Goggles, or Google Mobile (iPhone) installed. Preferably, I would not overuse it, for your phone can easily turn into a threadbare liberal perception, or should I say, Casual Determinism, that is predisposed to decline. If you have an iPhone, tap that austerely embroidered camera icon that looks like an iPod Shuffle counterpart, and grab the image of a recognizable image of a Sudoku puzzle. You should careen through the process, unless by a hapless chance, a vagrant drifter walks up to you and shoots you in your head. The app will then analyze the picture, and, voila, the mystery-shrouded puzzle you had been grappling with is settled! 

All in all, the app works impeccably, lest the image displays you losing a game of tic-tac-toe with a grub worm or worse. Other than that, the addition of Sudoku-solve imparts of us that we are meandering toward the never-ending vista of technology, that Google has yet to proffer.