Google has revealed the first production Chromebooks - notebooks running Chrome OS - along with a leasing plan that includes remote management tools, support and more for as little as $US20 per month.

Google Cloud Print has been around for about nine months. The gestational period is coming to an end, and 'ordinary people' are beginning to get access to the capability.

An industry analyst is predicting 150 million tablets and other portable Internet devices will ship in 2015, with the biggest share going into the Asia Pacific region.

Google has revealed plans to put prototype Chrome OS notebooks into the hands of 'test pilots' around the world.

In Google's vision of the future all apps will run in the cloud and be executed on computers with 'super browsers' - all conforming to the same open standards. But the vision goes beyond this to embrace the idea of application access and execution continuing as users move from device to device.

Rumours are swirling that Verizon is developing a tablet computer to tackle the iPad – AT&T hegemony in the US.

Google has revealed its plans for printing from Chrome OS, and they are potentially applicable to other types of device.

The iPad hasn’t even launched yet and already Google has shown concept pictures (and a video) of its own tablet hardware running a large touch-screen version of the Chrome OS.

A Dell employee has released a version of Google's Chromium OS that he has customised for the Dell Mini 10v.

Based on the Linux kernel, Google Chrome OS attempts to reposition Linux a long way from being a Windows competitor.