Google is doing a splendid job of manufacturing low-cost Chromebooks. The latest stunner is the Acer C7 Chromebook which costs around $199. Google also announced a Chromebook from Samsung last month in San Francisco and it retails for $249. If you’re wondering what’s next, the China Times is reporting that Google is planning to launch a touch-enabled Chromebook soon, possibly before the end of this year.
Google might even sell the said Chromebook under its own brand. The China Times added that the size of the new Chromebook is still tentative and that Google has already ordered 20 million units of the mystery device from Compal Electronics, a Taiwanese original design manufacturer (ODM). The new Chromebook could be running Google’s very own Chrome OS, although we are also hearing that Google might allow it to run Android as well. The report from the China Times raises more questions that answers. For now, let’s take it with a grain of salt.
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The all-seeing Eye (of Sauron, who else?) could eventually end up as the all-seeing Pi – the Raspberry Pi, of course. This is made possible thanks to an upcoming camera board which will work in tandem with the unused CSI pins on the $35 Raspberry Pi. The resolution count is nothing much to shout about in this day and age, but 5-megapixels ought to be more than enough – and it is more than capable of 1080p, 30fps video, now how about that? Do not fret that the prototype which was being paraded over at Electronica 2012 is attached via old school scotch tape technology, the Pi foundation has promised that the final deal will arrive with a proper mount to keep things in its place as the updated Raspberry Pi starts to ship from next year onwards for $25 a pop.
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The authorities tend not to have a good impression on the masses, case in point, CIAPC, a company that managed to get ISPs in Finland to block The Pirate Bay, is said to have tracked down an alleged file-sharer, asking for a cash settlement. The thing is, the Internet account holder did not want to cough up the amount demanded, and you could say that things got out of hand – literally. It was reported that the police actually busted into the home of the 9-year-old suspect, and confiscated her Winnie the Pooh laptop.
It looks like Facebook is on a path that might not go down well with many people, as the social network giant proposes to ditch its policy which enables members to vote on changes that it makes in terms of data use policy. Facebook Vice President for Communications, Public Policy and Marketing Elliot Schrage promised that the company still values user input on company policy, but declared that the “voting mechanism, which is triggered by a specific number of comments, actually resulted in a system that incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality.”
What is touted as one of the world’s first digital computers, the Harwell Dekatron, which was created to do away with handwritten calculations of human “computors”, is about to be on the receiving end of an official reboot which could eventually result in it occupying a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Already 61 years old, the Harwell Dekatron which weighs as much as an SUV (being around that size a well) was originally capable of delivering error-free calculations as it runs for 90 hours a week, and it has managed to survive as one of the oldest original working digital computer, especially after it was restored by The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in the UK.