Google Trademarks “Speedbook” for Computer Hardware

BNET’s Erik Sherman was doing some snooping in the U.S. Patent and Trademark database and came across something interesting: Google has trademarked the term “Speedbook”. Under the category labeled Goods and Services for the filing, it states “computer hardware”.BNET is a tech business blog owned by CBS.The trademark was filed on February 13, 2010. If you want to, go to the trademark database yourself and put in the term; it’s the first result....

Did Google’s Andy Rubin Confirm Chrome OS Tablet Release on Black Friday?

Yesterday, a Wall Street Journal MarketWatch report took a look at the current legal situation involving Google’s trademark of the “Speedbook” name. Some have suspected this to be a brand name for devices that run Chrome OS since the platform has a goal to allow users to navigate the web faster.A company called CollegeNet has filed a complaint against Google, citing that use of the Speedbook name by the search company will confuse people with....

Google Trademarks “Speedbook” for Computer Hardware

BNET’s Erik Sherman was doing some snooping in the U.S. Patent and Trademark database and came across something interesting: Google has trademarked the term “Speedbook”. Under the category labeled Goods and Services for the filing, it states “computer hardware”.BNET is a tech business blog owned by CBS.The trademark was filed on February 13, 2010. If you want to, go to the trademark database yourself and put in the term; it’s the first result....

Review Chrome Os -Verizon to Bring 4G to 38 Markets Before End of 2010

Lilliputing is reporting that Verizon announced on a conference call yesterday they will be rolling out 4G wireless in many larger U.S. cities before the end of this year. A race between wireless operators is going on to roll out fast 4G data speeds that will allow mobile devices to consume things like streaming music and video. Download speeds will be between 5Mbps and 12Mbps.Companies such as Clear and Sprint are working together and so far....

Review Google Chrome Os -Google Chrome Product Manager: “We’re Focused on Netbooks”

Senior Google Chrome product manager Anders Sandholm has told TechRadar that right now that Google has Google Chrome OS focused on netbooks as opposed to the tablet frenzy that is sweeping the tech world.“What we are focusing on is netbooks in terms of form-factor and providing a really good experience for that,” said Sandholm.At the same time, it’s clear that Sandholm knows the open source nature of Google Chrome OS lends itself to open inte....

Google Chrome update -Google Chrome OS Tablet Going on Sale Nov 26 on Verizon?

DownloadSquad’s Lee Mathews is reporting from some unknown source that the official launch date for a Google Chrome OS device will be on November 26. It’s said to be a tablet, and will have the basic features that were expected from the device with a 32 GB solid state drive and Nvidia’s Tegra 2 processor based on ARM reference designs.This seems a tad surprising to me since HTC was not listed as an official Google Chrome OS partner, but since....

Review Chrome Os -Google Trademarks “Speedbook” for Computer Hardware

BNET’s Erik Sherman was doing some snooping in the U.S. Patent and Trademark database and came across something interesting: Google has trademarked the term “Speedbook”. Under the category labeled Goods and Services for the filing, it states “computer hardware”.BNET is a tech business blog owned by CBS.The trademark was filed on February 13, 2010. If you want to, go to the trademark database yourself and put in the term; it’s the first result....

Chrome Experience -Intel Engineers: Cloud Computing “Won’t Scale”

Two Intel engineers, Kevin Kahn and Jim Held, recently spoke at the company’s Developer Forum in San Francisco. And according to The Register, they didn’t sound optimistic about cloud computing platforms such as Chrome OS.“I don’t believe we’re going into a world in which we’re always reaching over that pipe to a cloud for everything we do“, Held said. His major concern appears to be the ability for wireless broadband to scale as quickly as o....

Chrome OS, Android 3.0 in Q4 – Is There Room For Both?

It’s being reported thatAndroid 3.0 will be available during the fourth quarter and most likely in November smartphones with the Google’s newest version of their mobile OS will be released by major wireless carriers. Also coming at the end of the year is Google’s Music service, which was shown off to some degree at Google I/O with a demonstration of a wireless device streaming songs from a computer to a phone throughApp Engine, the company’s ....

Those Repository Files Must Mean Something

Last week, DownloadSquad’s Lee Matthews discovered some public repository files that referenced three hardware manufacturers: Dell, Acer and HP. A few days later, those files were then replaced by a different listing that included some legacy hardware such as Amiga, Atari and Commodore, among others.This has got to mean something. One thing that jumped out in my mind when Matthews first reported this story was that Dell is not on the official....