Chromebooks from the likes of Acer and Samsung have been on the market for over six months now. In this time, there have there have been reports of these Chrome OS-running netbooks selling very poorly. Google even slashed their prices last month in a bid to spur demand among holiday shoppers. It’s difficult to say how helpful that move has been, if at all. But there is something that will definitely be very helpful for existing Chromebook users looking to do more with their machines while offline.
Thanks to the impressively wide repertoire of modern web browsers, these days it’s possible to accomplish so many different things within them. Soon you will be able to enjoy web-based games a lot more than you already do. This is due to the fact Google is getting ready to include plug-and-play support for gamepads in Chrome.
Google on Wednesday announced the release of Chrome 15 on the Stable Channel for Chromebooks. This Chrome OS update brings a number of new features, but perhaps none more noteworthy than support for the NTFS file system. Hit the jump for a list of new features and enhancements introduced by this update.
Google’s cloud-based Chrome OS was seen as a threat to Windows by some (highly excitable) people when the search giant first talked about it in 2009. This was especially thought to be a possibility where the limited computing needs of the less tech savvy were concerned. That threat, however, never materialized. But Google isn’t ready to give up yet. It’s now trying to convince PC vendors to begin selling desktops with the cloud-based OS.
Remote desktop access tools are nothing new. Even Chromebooks have had a few third-party remote access solutions for quite sometime now. However, we have always been more interested in the first-party remote access capability that Google promised last year. This past Friday, Google finally delivered on that promise, releasing Chrome Remote Desktop beta version. Hit the jump for more.
Google has spent most if its existence being an innovative web company, but the search giant has just jumped into a decidedly old-business environment: retail stores. Yes, the first ever Google store just opened in London to push ChromeBooks through the holiday season. The so-called "pop-up store" has been erected in PC World, a larger electronics retailer.
Despite predictions of doom and gloom, consumers seem to be optimistic about the prospects for Google’s ChromeOS in its current form. The ChromeBooks from Acer and Samsung are selling briskly on Amazon, Cnet reports. The cheapest model, the $349 Wi-Fi only Acer is currently number 4 in the laptop category. 
It’s June 15th, and that can only mean one thing: Chromebooks. Yes, today is the day that you can officially buy a new Chromebook, assuming you didn’t jump on the Gilt.com deal a few weeks ago. The cloud-based Chrome OS machines from Samsung and Acer are available from Amazon and Best Buy online.
The first Chromebooks from the likes of Acer and Samsung are scheduled to begin shipping on June 15. But a little known Australian company has beaten the two vendors to the Chome/Chromium OS laptop punch. Australia’s Kogan is already taking orders for a 12-inch Chromium OS laptop called Agora, which it expects to begin shipping on June 7. Hit the jump for more on the world’s first Chromium OS notebook.
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