Chromebook sales rise 275% in Q1 2021
The pandemic year drove up laptop sales as people sought out entertainment in accessible forms and tried to get work done with the latest equipment from home offices. The necessity of working meant that PC sales were going to rise dramatically and they did.
According to Canalys' data in early Ja... Read more
Chromebooks very popular in 2020, tablets also saw growth
Chromebook sales remained high during the last quarter of 2020. The Chrome OS based laptops were sold more than 11 million times, with a total of more than 30 million laptops sold throughout 2020.
This is what analyst firm Canalys writes in a report. With this, sales increased by 287 percent com... Read more
Chrome browser in ChromeOS receives fingerprint support
Google has announced that version 88 of ChromeOS will support WebAuthn. This allows its users to log in to a website with biometric data such as a fingerprint.
In a blog post, Google has described all new features in ChromeOS 88. With support for WebAuthn it is possible to log in to a website wi... Read more
Google wants to turn old laptops into Chromebooks
Google has acquired software company Neverware. Neverware has developed an operating system with which old Windows and Apple computers can run Chrome OS. It is unknown how much Google paid for the acquisition.
New life in old computers
The software that Neverware has developed is called Cloud... Read more
Google makes Fuchsia more accessible for developers
Google has announced that it is adapting the open-source model of its mysterious Fuchsia operating system so that more developers can contribute to its development. The company wants to expand the system into a full OS that can eventually succeed Android.
The tech giant has been actively develop... Read more