Security was one of three major benefits flagged up by Google when it first announced) Chrome OS (alongside speed and spimplicity), so it’s not surprising that security researchers have been putting it through its paces.
Now a few months after the first Chromebook was released, a pair of hack happy academics have demonstrated how to crack open Chrome OS security onstage at the Black Hat conference. Read on for details on what on what they showed and what Google had to say about it…
Last month, we gave you the chance to win a Google Chromebook in partnership with the search giant, by setting you a seriously hard brain teaser. Want to know if you solved it correctly – and in time? The winners are now online at Google’s competition page, so check it out and see.
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Last week, we offered you the chance to win a Google Chromebook to call your own, in partnership with the search giant. All you had to do was crack a fiendish puzzle. Two crafty folk have solved the riddle already, but there’s still one more up for grabs. So, we’re giving you a few more clues. Read on to enter!
With Samsung’s Series 5 Chromebook now on sale in the US and UK and the Acer AC700 joining shortly, doubts have been raised over whether one can survive by Chrome OS alone. This largely this depends on individual usage patterns, Internet availability and applications. Can you survive with a Chromebook?
As the name implies, Chrome OS finds its bread and butter in the Chrome browser. Unlike conventional operating systems, a Chromebook lives and breaths in a full screen browser without the slightest inkling of a minimize, maximize or close button.
Stop what you’re doing! Unless you’re reading this, that is. In which case, as you were. Anyway, as ever, we’re here with your lunchtime lowdown roundup of all the headlines from this morning. Read on and fill up!
Samsung’s Chromebook is hitting UK shores this week, but how does it work? What else will be available that uses Chrome? And what about the data?
All is revealed after the break. Don’t buy a Chromebook until you’ve read it!
The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is now on sale in the UK, but it may soon be joined by a cheaper Chrome OS option: the Acer AC700 Chromebook. Unveiled today for the US market, this browser based machine offers similar functionality for a lower price tag – seldom a bad thing.
Last month at Google I/O, Google unveiled the new Chromebooks from Acer and Samsung – the first of a totally new kind of connected computer. The first devices will ship on 24 June, but play your cards right and you can win one before then.
We’ve teamed up with the folks at Google to give you the chance to win one of three Chromebooks. All you have to do is crack an exclusive conundrum before anyone else. Get your thinking cap on, and read on to find out how you can be in with a chance of winning.
UPDATE: Not solved it yet? We’ve updated the post with a few clues for you.
UPDATE 2: The third and final clue is now published below.
