You have to remember that Google’s Chromebooks aren’t meant to be powerhouses. They aren’t running Windows and they aren’t meant to perform actions that are very processor intensive. Chromebook’s strength lies in the cloud. That means everything you save will be stored on Google’s servers. There is no desktop to store content on. Google designed the Chromebook this way so it could have a boot time of only 8 seconds. All the updates are done automatically and there’s no antivirus or malware programs to worry about. What you’re getting basically has the same power as a high-end tablet these days.

On the second day of Google I/O, two new Chromebooks were revealed during the keynote. Google is promoting its Chromebooks as the ideal notebook computer for people who want to use the cloud to manage their every day lives. As Google says, one of the Chromebook’s greatest assets is that it’s just the web. Google has teamed with Samsung, Acer, Verizon and Intel to create the Chromebooks.

Working from the cloud is not only convenient but is becoming serious business for a lot of companies and that one of them is now Verizon. Available today in the Android Marketplace and Blackberry App World is V Cast Media Manager – long name, lots of goodies. For a mere $2.99 per month ($36/year), Verizon more »

As of today, Quicken Online is no more. It’s been replaced by Mint.com, the financial service Intuit bought last year. The company says they’ve taken the best features from Quicken and folded them into Mint.com. Users will have to sign up for a new account with Mint if they want to continue to use the more »

Google’s promised to get all of Los Angeles’ city employees switched over to Google Docs by June 30th, then promptly broke that promise. They say now it will take at least until mid August, and are blaming the LAPD. They insist that their data not be mixed in with any other data Google maintains, and more »

On Monday Google held it’s first event dedicated to cloud computing, Atmosphere. The event was meant for CIOs and IT professionals, though the announcements were certainly not limited to them. Google took the time to announce new features to Google Docs which greatly improve the service. The biggest improvement comes with the addition of a more »

A few days ago, Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft’s Business Division, announced some interesting information regarding the future of Office. The Apple iPad is definitely an interesting opportunity for Microsoft to work into some Office products, but at this point in time, they are simply taking a “wait and see” plan of action. While such more »

Cloud computing poses a host of complications in carrying out the law in a uniform fashion, prompting Microsoft’s top lawyer, Brad Smith to pose a suggestion to the EU. The existing European data retention law was passed in 2006, which did not really consider cloud computing implications back then. The data retention law requires the more »

We heard the latest Chrome OS rumor last week, and it looks like it will at least be partially true. The news is official and comes courtesy of Google who have stated that they will be offering a “complete overview” of Chrome OS and giving some demos tomorrow November 19, 2009. That said it also more »

The official word on the Google’s Chrome OS mentioned that we would see “more updates in the fall” and that it would not be available for download until the “second half of 2010.” That said, things sometimes change, and sometimes they become the subject of rumor. In this case, we have a rumor, of course more »