Acer to launch first Chrome OS netbook, Android-based Aspire One sales disappoint

Acer loves it some Google. And unless Google's trying to stamp out your revenue stream, who doesn't? Now Acer chairman, JT Wang, says that he expects to be first to market with an official Chrome OS netbook -- sometime in the second half of 2010 according to DigiTimes' sources. In fact, JT says that Acer's been working on a Chrome OS device since mid-2009. This despite admittedly weaker than expected demand for its dual-boot Android netbook, the Aspire One AOD250. Guess even the Google halo isn't enough to shoehorn its smartphone OS into a market dominating position on cheap ultra-portables. It's worth pointing out that DigiTimes' moles aren't saying anything new with the launch time-frame since Google's target for its gold Chrome OS build has been 2H of 2010 ever since the lightweight OS was announced. Not that the timing matters too much since we'll likely be seeing plenty of Chromium OS netbooks flooding the grey market long before the second half of 2010. 


Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/acer-to-launch-first-chrome-os-netbook-android-based-aspire-one 

Who Would Use The Google Chrome Operating System?

If you use the Internet, chances are you know about Google (if not, get out from under your rock!). From their search engine giant status to their release of their Android operating system for Smart Phones, Google has invested much into today’s technology. Add in their online Office suite, affectionately known as “Google Docs”, their extremely popular email service, their excellent calendar product, and their up and coming Chrome browser, and it becomes easy to see that Google impacts a vast number of computer users today.

But soon it may be that Google has an even bigger impact in the typical user’s computing experience. Google is set to release the Chrome Operating System (OS) that replaces the typical OS on a personal computer. Instead of booting up the computer and running various applications to get your work done, the system instead would boot up to a browser. The browser would then connect to various applications in the cloud, and you would use the remote app for getting things done. Please note the Chrome OS is a different product than the currently available Chrome browser, even though the Chrome OS will no doubt incorporate the browser product.

While some may decry a browser based operating system as a featureless and gadget free computer, that is exactly the target Google was shooting for. Linus Upson, Google’s Vice President of Engineering in charge of Chrome, had this to say on the topic:

What is HTML 5?

HTML 5 is to be the new standard of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) HTML 5 has been on the drawing boards to quite some time now all tho it seemed like it was to far into the future to start worrying about now, that said we are getting ever closer to HTML 5 being a common practice amongst webmasters.

Some people believe that HTML 5 coding is only being introduced to make browsers manufacturers (browser/ software companies) while other webmasters see this as a great step forward to being able to develop more powerful multimedia. HTML 5 will change the way we work with general HTML as the soon to be standard code is not just a markup from HTML 4 but more that of a new language, HTML will make life easier for everyone including not just browser manufactures but also developers, there are already some example JavaScript applications and APIs using the upcoming HTML5 code.

Most HTML based websites are using HTML 4 as we speak but this will start to change over the coming months and years, up until now the HTML code has hardly evolved from HTML 2.0 only some issues were addressed with the release of HTML 4 along with a small amount of new code references, HTML 5 is based from HTML 4 but in it’s own right it will be completely different and will change the way your browsers render websites on your PC screen, HTML 5 will rely heavily on JavaScript, should you have JavaScript turned off the website / pages are unlikely to render correctly.

HTML 5 Reference

Below is a complete list of HTML 5 tags, in the next few weeks our site will provide you with a downloadable tag list so that you can learn HTML 5. As you will notice with the HTML 5 tags below there are several new code inclusions.

• 4* The element is defined in HTML 4+
• 5* The element is defined in HTML 5

Tag	Description	4	5
<comment>	Defines a comment	4	5
<DOCTYPE>	Defines the document type	4	5
<a>	Defines a hyperlink	4	5
<abbr>	Defines an abbreviation	4	5
<acronym>	Not supported. Defines an acronym	4
<address>	Defines an address element	4	5
<applet>	Not supported. Defines an applet	4
<area>	Defines an area inside an image map	4	5
<article>	Defines an article		5
<aside>	Defines content aside from the page content		5
<audio>	Defines sound content		5
<b>	Defines bold text	4	5
<base>	Defines a base URL for all the links in a page	4	5
<basefont>	Not supported. Use CSS instead	4
<bdo>	Defines the direction of text display	4	5
<big>	Not supported. Defines big text	4
<blockquote>	Defines a long quotation	4	5
<body>	Defines the body element	4	5
<br>	Inserts a single line break	4	5
<button>	Defines a push button	4	5
<canvas>	Defines graphics		5
<caption>	Defines a table caption	4	5
<center>	Not supported. Defines centered text	4
<cite>	Defines a citation	4	5
<code>	Defines computer code text	4	5
<col>	Defines attributes for table columns	4	5
<colgroup>	Defines groups of table columns	4	5
<command>	Defines a command button		5
<datagrid>	Defines data in a tree-list		5
<datalist>	Defines a dropdown list		5
<datatemplate>	Defines a data template		5
<dd>	Defines a definition description	4	5
<del>	Defines deleted text	4	5
<details>	Defines details of an element		5
<dialog>	Defines a dialog (conversation)		5
<dir>	Not supported. Defines a directory list	4
<div>	Defines a section in a document	4	5
<dfn>	Defines a definition term	4	5
<dl>	Defines a definition list	4	5
<dt>	Defines a definition term	4	5
<em>	Defines emphasized text	4	5
<embed>	Defines external interactive content or plugin		5
<eventsource>	Defines a target for events sent by a server		5
<fieldset>	Defines a fieldset	4	5
<figure>	Defines a group of media content, and their caption		5
<font>	Deprecated. Defines text font, size, and color	4
<footer>	Defines a footer for a section or page		5
<form>	Defines a form	4	5
<frame>	Not supported. Defines a sub window (a frame)	4
<frameset>	Not supported. Defines a set of frames	4
<h1> to <h6>	Defines header 1 to header 6	4	5
<head>	Defines information about the document	4	5
<header>	Defines a header for a section or page		5
<hr>	Defines a horizontal rule	4	5
<html>	Defines an html document	4	5
<i>	Defines italic text	4	5
<iframe>	Defines an inline sub window (frame)	4	5
<img>	Defines an image	4	5
<input>	Defines an input field	4	5
<ins>	Defines inserted text	4	5
<isindex>	Not supported. Defines a single-line input field	4
<kbd>	Defines keyboard text	4	5
<label>	Defines a label for a form control	4	5
<legend>	Defines a title in a fieldset	4	5
<li>	Defines a list item	4	5
<link>	Defines a resource reference	4	5
<mark>	Defines marked text		5
<map>	Defines an image map	4	5
<menu>	Defines a menu list	4	5
<meta>	Defines meta information	4	5
<meter>	Defines measurement within a predefined range		5
<nav>	Defines navigation links		5
<nest>	Defines a nestingpoint in a datatemplate		5
<noframes>	Not supported. Defines a noframe section	4
<noscript>	Defines a noscript section	4	5
<object>	Defines an embedded object	4	5
<ol>	Defines an ordered list	4	5
<optgroup>	Defines an option group	4	5
<option>	Defines an option in a drop-down list	4	5
<output>	Defines some types of output		5
<p>	Defines a paragraph	4	5
<param>	Defines a parameter for an object	4	5
<pre>	Defines preformatted text	4	5
<progress>	Defines progress of a task of any kind		5
<q>	Defines a short quotation	4	5
<rule>	Defines the rules for updating a template		5
<s>	Not supported. Defines strikethrough text	4
<samp>	Defines sample computer code	4	5
<script>	Defines a script	4	5
<section>	Defines a section		5
<select>	Defines a selectable list	4	5
<small>	Defines small text	4	5
<source>	Defines media resources		5
<span>	Defines a section in a document	4	5
<strike>	Not supported. Defines strikethrough text	4
<strong>	Defines strong text	4	5
<style>	Defines a style definition	4	5
<sub>	Defines subscripted text	4	5
<sup>	Defines superscripted text	4	5
<table>	Defines a table	4	5
<tbody>	Defines a table body	4	5
<td>	Defines a table cell	4	5
<textarea>	Defines a text area	4	5
<tfoot>	Defines a table footer	4	5
<th>	Defines a table header	4	5
<thead>	Defines a table header	4	5
<time>	Defines a date/time		5
<title>	Defines the document title	4	5
<tr>	Defines a table row	4	5
<tt>	Not supported. Defines teletype text	4
<u>	Not supported. Defines underlined text	4
<ul>	Defines an unordered list	4	5
<var>	Defines a variable	4	5
<video>	Defines a video		5
<xmp>	Not supported. Defines preformatted text	4