Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Lenovo Announce N20 and N20P Chromebooks - Available this July!


Lenovo unveils their first consumer-ready Chromebooks, N20 and N20P to be available this Summer

Today, Lenovo announced a couple of new Chromebooks. These are their first ones to be available for everyone. Previously, their last two Chromebooks were only available to schools. The N20 is an 11.6-inch Chromebook with the N20P being the touch-screen variant.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Google Redesigning Chrome's Incognito Mode


Google has refreshed the Incognito Mode page in the latest dev build of Chrome

Developers, or anyone using the developer channel of Google Chrome may have noticed that there's a slightly redesigned version of the Incognito Mode page in the browser. The only real change you'll see is that it's more up-to-date with the rest of the web. Meaning it's brought into web 3.0. You can see the differences above, thanks to the folks at OMGChrome.

Dell XPS 12 Convertible Laptop with Intel Core i3 Haswell Spotted running Android 4.4 KitKat


Yet another laptop manufacturer spotted with a laptop running the latest version of Android
Earlier this week, we saw a HP laptop spotted running on KitKat. Which we thought that was just something that HP was working on with Google. But now we're seeing a Dell laptop running KitKat as well, which makes me wonder, are we going to see Android laptops at I/O next month?

ASUS Chromebook C200 leaks Out Again

Leaker posts 6 high-resolution photos of the upcoming ASUS C200 Chromebook on Imgur

What do we have here? It appears to be 6 images of the ASUS C200 Chromebook which is due to be announced any time now. As far as we can tell, ASUS has used their same build quality that they are famous for with their laptops, on this Chromebook. It also appears to be an 11-inch display. It's touting all-day battery life, as well as it being very lightweight. There's also an Intel inside. So we're likely looking at the Intel Celeron 2955U which the Acer C720 and the HP Chromebook 14 both run on. Which brings us our all day battery life. We can also see that there is a HDMI port, as well as a USB 2.0 and a USB 3.0 - denoted by the blue USB port - as well as a SD card slot, headphone jack and a kensington lock. You can check out the images below and let us know what you think in the comments.

Source: Imgur

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Redbox Instant Now with Chromecast Capabilities


With today's update to Redbox Instant Android app, we are seeing Chromecast support for yet another big name service. You'll need to have version 1.5.1 of the app to be able to cast your movie to the big screen though.

Google and Intel Holding a Chrome OS Press Event Next Week


Intel and Google have announced that they are holding a joint press conference next week where they will announce some sort of collaboration together involving Chrome OS. The event is scheduled for next Wednesday, May 6th. So far there's no details on what Google and Intel have planned to announce, but this wouldn't be the first time that the two companies have worked together on Chrome OS.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Videostream Chrome Extension Updated, Now Supports Casting all Video Types

Today, Videostream updated their Chrome Extension so that you can now cast just about any type of video to Google's Chromecast. Both the free and premium versions now support casting all video types as well as MP3 and WMA, and a few others.