Google is giving away a limited number of Chrome netbook. Google is still calling it a work-in-progress since Chromium is still in development. To get one, you need to be in US; 18 years + in age and fill the form given on this page.

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Google has finally announced its first Chrome OS netbook.

The specs of this netbook go like this:

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Google has given invitations for a media event on Tuesday and all the signs point out to some sort of unveiling of Chromium Netbooks. Clearly, the most important thing that will decide the fate of these netbooks will be their price.

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News is flowing on the Internet that Google’s desktop OS has been delayed slightly. Google will still be releasing its own Chrome OS based machine, just like Nexus One of the netbook world. Other companies will, therefore have to wait until next year before being able to ship devices with new cloud-based OS.

Hexxeh, builder of many custom Chromium OS builds has rolled-out a new build called Flow that was recently reviewed by a Linux site. The OS was tested in a virtualbox environment though.

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Good news for the Chromium fans! According to a source, the next-generation Atom, codenamed “Cedar Trail” will not only support Windows Operating system, but also Chrome OS by Google. The list does not ends there. It also supports MeeGo Linux OS, an open source OS that took birth when both Intel and Nokia went to bed. The Cedar Trail series will be unveiled in the year 2011

This means that Chromium will run without a hitch on the upcoming Intel Atom-powered netbooks. Future is surely very bright for the Chromium OS.

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Well, it is official now. Google has realized that Flash is the most popular web-browser plug-in and flash opens gates to wide range of apps and content on the Internet such as games, videos and enterprise apps. Google has joined hands with Adobe to improve the flash player experience in Google Chrome browser which is also the core of Chromium OS.

Google promises to bring this functionality as quickly as they can.

Chromium being free, will allow the manufactures to sell them at pretty low rates. Here is video of a sub-$200 tablet that the Freescale is showing at the CeBIT 2010 via

Google Chrome netbooks will be making their debut by the end of this year. These netbooks will be running Consumer Version of Chromium OS. In the year 2011, there will be another version that will be making its way to the Chrome OS world – Chrome OS Business version. According to the security engineers at Google, this version is stated to have "more management muscle".

Also, the Chromium netbooks will have a hardware-switch beneath the battery that would trigger "developer mode". When running in this mode, some special security functions will be turned-off that would allow the developer to play with the Chromium’s code.

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This is for those who thought that Chromium is mere Cloud operating system. Fantastic folks at electricpig spotted a Chromium smartbook that was running Qualcomm’s FLO TV application which uses FLO TV network, not wireless connection. What does that means for the Chrome OS society? This implies that one does not necessary need a wireless connection like Wi-Fi or 3G to fetch data

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