GigaomChrome Show: Unlocking Chromebooks with phones and watches
Google finally released a way to unlock your Chromebook with a trusted Android phone but only for the Dev Channel. It turns out you… Read more »
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Google finally released a way to unlock your Chromebook with a trusted Android phone but only for the Dev Channel. It turns out you… Read more »
Back in April, I noticed Google working on a trick that unlocks Chrome OS devices with Android phones. Now, the feature is here; at least for those adventurous types that use the… Read more »
What happens when you offer the combination of a simple user experience, a growing choice in streaming apps and a low cost? You sell a lot of that product and people… Read more »
Voluntarily accepted education standards that include keyboarding skills could be hurting iPad sales in schools while at the same, boosting the already compelling choice of lower-cost Chromebooks. Read more »
If you were looking for another reason to buy a Chromebook, Google just provided a big one: The company is boosting the included Google Drive storage capacity by a factor of five… Read more »
The latest Stable version of Chrome for OS X is finally 64-bit compatible. There’s no going back to 32-bit as Google is discontinuing support. Skype for the web is nearly here… Read more »
After years of driving PCs to be commodities, Microsoft is now imbuing devices that have Google operating systems with Windows. The doubles have their place along with Microsoft’s own devices, but… Read more »
Now that you can spend $199 and get either a Google Chromebook or a Windows 8.1 with Bing laptop, which is better? It depends on your needs, of course, but this… Read more »
In just three short years, Chromebooks have made huge inroads in the education market, becoming the best-selling device there this year. We discuss why on this week’s podcast and share some… Read more »
Three K-12 school districts alone have purchased and deployed 108,000 Chromebooks as IDC notes the devices are best-selling in the education market this year, just three years after Google introduced the… Read more »