It’s been a long time in the pipeline, but Google’s cloud-based Chrome OS was finally properly unveiled and detailed today at a Google press event in San Francisco.
Using demo-hardware, several key features of the operating system were shown off and on first impressions, it actually looks pretty sweet. But first, let’s talk you through the basic principle of Chrome OS in case for one reason or another you’ve not heard of Google’s latest foray into the OS market.
As the name suggests, Chrome OS is loosely based upon Google’s web browser of the same name. Using, for the most part, the same interface, the entirely cloud-based OS allows computing in pretty much it’s most basic modern form, thus making it an apparently perfect platform for a basic computer user (you know, browsing, email etc.).
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If you’ve never heard of Sling Media, or the 
This time of year always throws up a wealth of new gadgets for us to drool over in the months prior to the Christmas season, and with nearly every manufacturer placing a lot of emphasis on mobile devices this year, it was hardly surprising there would be a lot of new smart phones. With the iPhone 4 and the new iOS 4 update being launched over the course of the summer and a new version of Android on the way before year’s end, there sure is a lot to be excited about, but for me nothing has made the past few months more exciting than the 
There has been a lot of development of late surrounding Internet-connected TV’s, with more and more services such as Google TV tipped as the next big thing in home entertainment.
Head down to your local electronics store and you will no doubt find the shelves of budget headphones are more densely populated than an ant-hill, so it really does take a special pair to stand out from the crowd. It is an industry in which it is difficult to innovate products, and perhaps even more challenging to change the customer’s perception of a good product, but when we first heard about these 
Archos: a company who have long been in the tablet industry with their range of popular MIDs, has it leapfrogged the major manufacturers, such as Samsung and LG, in the queue of tablets due to join the Apple iPad on store shelves.
The Eee Pad (yes that’s the tablet PC one, not the eReader), more specifically the EP101TC was originally planned by ASUS to run Windows Embedded Compact 7, however it has emerged today that the Taiwanese manufacturer is dropping the Microsoft OS in favour of the latest build of Google’s Android 2.2 platform, ‘Froyo’.
Due to the nature of the Apple iPad’s impressive touch-screen display, up until now, it has been impossible to do any real freehand drawing on the device, as its display isn’t pressure-sensitive. However, thanks to the guys at Ten One Design and their incredible iPad software development, by using their Pogo Touchscreen Stylus they have enabled such a feature and intend to share it with developers around the world.
Apple’s iPad has been available to consumers for a couple of months now, selling as many millions on a global scale. These figures alone give us some indication of the initial success the device has brought to the Cupertino giants.
Not long ago I reviewed the iTap Touchpad iPhone app which acted as a multitouch trackpad for any PC or Mac. I discovered the app was feature filled, responsive and overall pretty good. But then I stumbled across the new Logitech equivalent which I must say, threw all of that iTap hype right out of the window, across the street, and straight into the nearest bin. It’s hard to imagine that these apps differ much at all, but the few subtle differences there are, trust me, they make a big difference.