Initial Impressions – iPhone OS vs Android 2.1

This week I managed to get hold of an HTC Desire running Android 2.1 and thought I’d give this a go instead of my iPhone 3G. I’m very familiar with the iPhone range now as I’ve had an iPhone, an iPhone 3G and my fiancée has an iPhone 3GS. The HTC Desire and Android are [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Install Android on a PC

There has been a lot of buzz lately about Google’s announcement that they’re working on and hoping soon to release the Google Chrome OS – a light-weight browser operating system clearly targeted at running web applications on NetBooks and other PC’s. Well, as many people have pointed out (including Microsoft), Google already has another operating [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Google announces Chrome OS hardware partners

As reported on engadget, Google has named the hardware vendors it is partnering with that will provide solutions with the Google Chrome OS on them. The list also, interestingly, includes Adobe, so support for Flash is probably a safe bet.

  • Share/Bookmark

Google introduces the Chrome OS

Google has today announced on its blog that it is producing a Google Chrome operating system -Introducing the Google Chrome OS. This has been a long-running rumour for several years now, being exacerbated by the release of the Google Chrome browser last year. From the Google Announcement it appears that the Chrome OS will be [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Can you run Google Gears on Firefox 3.5? Yes!

Until now it’s not been possible to install and run Google Gears on Firefox 3.5, which has meant that things like Offline gMail and Google Reader won’t function. Well, some industrious individuals have gone and hacked the Google Gears installer so that it now works with Firefox 3.5. A word to the wary though – [...]

  • Share/Bookmark