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Google plans to release its Chrome operating system late this year, initially targeting laptop users, the head of the project said Wednesday. The Chrome OS “will be offered to users in the fourth quarter,” said Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management, during a speech at the Computex electronics exhibition in Taipei. [ Chrome [...]

Shipments of laptops rose by 43.4 percent in the first three months of 2010, compared to the same period last year, according to market research company Gartner. A large part of the growth was due to a 71 percent bump in netbook sales, which Gartner doesn’t expect will be affected by the arrival of Apple’s [...]

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday revamped its line of Mini netbooks, also introducing its first model with a touchscreen that supports multitouch finger input. The Mini 5102 netbook comes with a 10.1-inch screen that supports input through two fingers. The touchscreen can be used as an alternative to mice to zoom into maps, scroll through documents, or [...]

Intel on Monday launched its next-generation Atom netbook processor, saying it will bring longer battery life and improved system performance to low-cost laptops. The single-core Atom N450 chip is 60 percent smaller than existing Atom processors, and consumes close to 20 percent less power, said Anil Nanduri, director of netbook marketing at Intel. The chip [...]